Serge Birault's Blog

"Romance" print is available here:
http://www.inprnt.com/gallery/serge_birault/romance/

I just started a little contest 3D on my FB page :)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Serge-Birault-PapaNinja/217144088320217

Here's the link of the thread:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=411955268839097&set=a.217400374961255.60775.217144088320217&type=1&theater

- Rules : Doing a 3D "beauty" render of this sketch (you can use textures/materials/maps but it's not an obligation). You can change light/shadow/contrast. Just don't forget I love shiny things :)
- Send me .JPEG file here : serge.birault@hotmail.fr
- You can send me WIP too. I'm going create a "WIP" folder on my FB page. DON'T TAG ME WITH YOUR PICTURE PLEASE :)
- End of the contest : July 1st.
- Prize :
   - A high quality, signed print of "Fuchsia".
   - My signed artbook (on November).
   - Some goodies (Tshirts, ...).
   - I will promote you and your picture by all the ways I could :)

p.s : You can download the sketch on the FB thread, the file is quite big.

Quick little painting ... with tentacle :)

Here's the link to my first post on this fabulous blog ^o^
http://muddycolors.blogspot.fr/2012/05/computer-and-chaos.html

A lot of people asked me to do T-shirts, so here's the first one.
I did a 2hrs long video of the process (with my horrible french accent ^^). It will be available on Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 4:
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Painting-Techniques-Volume-4/dp/0956817122
I did a wallpaper:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=443156352380368&set=a.258716867490985.77764.258276350868370&type=3&theater 
You can find the T-shirt here:

Ok, it's now official :)
I'm very happy to be a new member of Muddy Colors.
If you don't know this blog, just take a look, there are so many artists I admired since years ...
Btw, I'm the first "digital" painter and I hope I could post interesting articles ^^

http://muddycolors.blogspot.fr/

I started this picture a long time ago for a beer label. The project was stopped but I decided to finish the picture.
Chloé helped me for the shape of the label. 
Done with PS.

45 mns of improvisation in order to try a new video capture software :)

Birthday gift for my talented friend Gary Newman: 
http://www.unearthedart.com/
http://unearthedart.blogspot.fr/
Wallpaper here:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=380376198663671&set=a.217145124986780.60699.217144088320217&type=3&theater

Quick study of the lovely swedish model, Calamity Amelie. I found good refs here:
http://www.modelmayhem.com/5838
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Calamity-Amelie/106394379413682
Done with Photoshop :)

Portrait of the beautiful Yolinda Vixen (http://www.yolindavixen.com/).
I used several refs but I didn't copy a photo ;)
Very inspired by Hubert de Lartigue, our french airbrush master.
Done with Photoshop.

Quick caricature of Lemmy :)

A little caricature of Monica Bellucci :)

The cover of my future artbook, available on November and published by CFSL Ink (http://www.cfsl-ink.com/fr/home).
3 weeks of work (it's a very big file). I'm quiet happy with the result ... it looks a bit like an 80's classical illustration.
Done with Photoshop.

ISBN: 978-2-35947-046-8

Livestream in 1 hour here:
http://www.livestream.com/sergebirault?t=939181

Or here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Serge-Birault-PapaNinja/217144088320217?sk=app_142371818162

Today, cartoon face colouring (I will save the file ^^).

Very fast done, too long to explain :)

Another picture of my beloved :)
Done with Photoshop.

Picture for one of my favourite alternative model, Vanessa Lake.
Yes, I know, tentacles again ...
Once again, I was very inspired by my friend David "Loopydave" Dunstan for the shapes.
I found very good refs of Vanessa, especially for her tattoos, on different websites:

http://ispyvanessalake.com/
http://vanessalake.deviantart.com/
http://www.modelmayhem.com/1135277
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vanessa-Lake/156046511100024?sk=wall

Done with Photoshop.

I'm a lucky man, I'm living with an incredible webdesigner :)
Chloé did my new website and it kicks ass' !
Her website: http://www.xpzdesign.fr/index.php
You can contact her here:
chloe@xpzdesign.fr

Another picture for Halloween :)
I think I will do more cartoon characters like this one, it's very funny to do ...
And yes, it's a tomato not a pumpkin ... I've got an excuse, I'm french :p
Done with Photoshop.

Prints available here:
http://papaninja.deviantart.com/#/d4dhjl5

Part of the poster for our halloween party.
You can use it for your own party if you want ;)
Done with Photoshop.

Cover of the last album of La Oreja de Van Gogh (spanish band).
A very, very long work with a lot of characters and a lot of ... men ^^
I spent a lot of time on Leire's face because I didn't use direct photo references for her.
I already told it but I will tell it again ... all the members of the band were very kind and it was a pleasure to work with them :)
Done with Photoshop.

You can pre-order the album here : http://es.myplaydirect.com/la-oreja-de-van-gogh
I did the design of the special edition too and there are some steps of the painting of Leire's face within ;)
It will available September 13th.

Picture for the website we done, Chloé and me: www.vandecramps.com
We will create a lot of stuff like posters and tshirts :)
The site will be updated soon ...

You can download the wallpaper on our FBpage here :
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vandecramps/258276350868370?sk=wall

Done with Photoshop