Hello there !
It's been a while,  huh ?

A few months ago, I landed on the Japanese soil.
I am currently living in Fukuoka, on the island of Kyushu.
I will have many drawings about Japan showing up very soon !

Also, my website just got finished : [link]
You can find there many interesting things such as a gallery, a blog page...

And my Facebook page is still online !
[link]

Thank you,
See you soon !

Willly Merry

Hello Willies & Merries,

A new exhibition is on its way, it will once again happen in Bordeaux -this time at the Bistro Urbain (7, rue des Bahutiers).
If you somehow get to pass by, come and take a look !

Also, my Facebook Page is still active ! You can join it there :
>> [link]

Have a good day, or maybe night..!

Hello there !

I thought I'd let you know I do have now a Facebook "Like" page ! You can join me and the other Willies and Merries by clicking here ! [link]
News will be mostly in English !
Your support is important ! See you there !

Also, the exhibition's on its way and I have now many details about it. It's in Bordeaux -France, so I'm going French about it :
L'exposition de mes travaux débutera le 22 novembre et ce jusqu'au 15 décembre 2010 à la parfumerie ARTISAN PARFUMEUR (1, Place Gambetta) à Bordeaux.
Le 22 novembre à 19h00 aura lieu un vernissage, n'hésitez pas à passer !

Hello there !

I just got the green light to make an exhibition of my works in a couple of months in a great perfumery in the French city I'm currently living in ! I am proud of this, but I need your help now because I'm somehow...broke! So, COMMISSIONS are up starting today. And so are PRINTS !
Here are the informations you might want :

COMMISSIONS
I take 20€/30$ for a small commission (portrait, little tattoo..). Most significant illustrations are to be discussed but would remain around 45 €/60$. Commissions are sent as High-Resolution files.

PRINTS
The prints I sell are high-quality productions on mate paper and they are sent by my very precautious means. Shipping price included. A few users who already ordered prints of mine : [link] [link]
France: 1 pour 15€, les autres à 10€ chacun.
Exemple : 4 impressions pour 15+(10*3)=45€
World: 1 at 25$ and the others at 15$ each.
Example : 4 prints at 25+(15*3)=70$

To contact me, you can either note me here on deviantART or send me a mail at willymerry@hotmail.fr
It is also possible for me to make posters. If interested, note me !

Thank you,
Have a merry day,

WM

A Pinocchio adaptation by Del Toro, Grimly... and Nick Cave ?!!
Gosh, I heard the rumour a few days ago -maybe yesterday, but the official news came upon me today, on a sunny yet staggering day :
[link]
This is one bloody announcement to me, I am familiar with Cave's works. Excitement keeps rising in my veins, the brains ready to pop. I wish them love.

As for me now !
I got proposed to make a Willy Merry exhibition at the end of the year in Bordeaux (France) so I'm currently working on it, this is why no work has been submitted for a month or so -but expect many to show up ! I'm thinking about making a dozen for this exhibition.
Also, I will soon be producing prints (maybe POSTERS), so I'll let you know about that.

Have a merry day,
WM

Helluw, a few announcements to you, readers !


First, I launched a brand new blog this week, it's on Blogspot : [link]
This blog will be the leading place concerning my works and I'm planning on updating very often so be sure you check it out regularly !


Then, as you might have noticed in the deviations, the first page of my personal project Tom Waits' Children Story is now online ! As soon as I'm over with the other pages, I will add the written story on every page.
I also intend to make a little video of the pages in order to launch it on Youtube as well.


Thank you for reading, à bientôt !


edit: Oh, something else to tell you. I now use much more the digital media. My works used to be 90% traditional, but they are now about 60% traditional and the rest digital. I will keep on defining them traditional, but I thought I should let you know.

Greetings from my brains,


A bunch of news is available at the moment, including the cover for the children's book I've been working on for many months as well as a previsualisation of a drawing yet to come.

• So, as for the book's cover , there it goes :
  [link]
  
  
  And the new drawing looks like this :
  [link]
  edit: Well, it is actually torn down now, I got furious about the render of it.

Comments are most welcome,
I will tell you more about things going on in a couple of weeks, when my mind vanishes from any university task.
Because I'm at college too.

Helluw Cookies and Sugars,


I have been somehow distant from deviantART, haven't I ? Let's say there are several reasons. One of them is -as I previoulsy said- that I was illustrating Zachery Nims' children's book The Heroes in my Closet. I am now almost 100% done with polishing the book up so things over here should get a little bit.. merrier.
Indeed, mah crooked brains have been sown by God and His minions of devils as well as His Beautiful unparalleled only Angel.
Here comes a little list of what I am doing :

• Illustrations on Tom Waits' "Children's Story" (short personal project, about 10 pages). You can find Tom Wait's great story there : [link]


• Day after day quick drawings about things going through my mind. These are being worked on in a small notebook that will be scanned and put online on a blog at a later time.


• Getting a decently marvellous website on foot.


• Commissions that I have gently been offered to think about by some of you (and me).


• Many other little things, such as getting shot at in the ear. Yes, it's painful.

I guess the Carnival is over for now.
Good-bye, to the next time I meet you in Heaven or Hell..!

Helluw there #

I take a short break from my drawing table in order to let a few words crawl down here.
The children's book is still on its way, and I am now close to start painting it. However, I still do not have time to focus on personal works and my deviations come to be extremely rare. Sorry for that.
NOW, BIG NEWS.
After letting down deviantART's print system that did not allow me much money, I started my own. The QUALITY gets UP and the PRICE gets DOWN.
Every print is done in high quality on excellent A4 matte paper (8.3 on 11.7 inches) and is sent on good care by my means, this is a priority for me. I make sure the prints arrive in good shape to your hands.
I only accept Euros or US Dollars. Paypal is accepted as way of payment.

Below are the prices (shipping included) :

FRANCE : Euros seulement
Quantité, 1 : 15 €
Quantité, 2 : 25 €
Pour une commande de plus de deux prints, comptez le premier à 15€, puis chaque autre à 10€.
Exemples : 3 prints = 15+10+10 = 35 € ; 4 prints = 45 €.

USA, CANADA, EU, OTHER COUNTRIES : Euros & US Dollars only
Quantity, 1 : 25 US Dollars or 20 Euros
Quantity, 2 : 40 US Dollars or 30 Euros
For a multiple prints order, the first print is 25 USD or 20 €, and each other is 15 USD or 10 € more.
Examples : 3 prints = 55 USD or 40 € ; 4 prints = 70 USD or 50 €.

Every interested person can contact me with a note or a mail at willymerry@hotmail.fr

Thank you for your time !


PS : Happy Halloween

I have been inactive for a while now, and I blame/thank a few things for that.

First, I launched a brand new blogspace on Canalblog : [link]
I intend on uploading it often, with all sorts of works. This should allow me to reach a wider audience and to get me to know more about introducing things.
It is in French for the moment for it also has writing purposes, but an English version might follow a large amount of visits.

A few days after that, I was offered by a man named Zach Nims to illustrate the children's book he wrote, which is called The Heroes in my Closet.
I had been thinking about it since then and as I got every required administrating-paper-thing, I am on it frow now on.
I will sure let you know about the progression.

Prints might end soon, for deviantART is such a bad place for selling.
It doesn't give the artist much money, you know. For I am no Premium Member, I can't fix the prices, and the current prices only give me a few CENTS for each drawing.

I hope you're all going merry and crazy, there's need to.

" Mankind is like dogs -not gods. Stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow."
Jack Kerouac

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Du côté français, ça va être court. Il est juste à savoir que mon inactivité remarquée ou non est due à la création du blog dont l'adresse est ci-dessus, à mon embauche comme illustrateur pour le livre d'enfants nommé The Heroes in my Closet par Zach Nims et par mes péripéties personnelles forcément dégradantes et tellement barrées du sceau infernal de la démolition mentale créatrice.
Je vais également mettre un terme au système de prints sur deviantART, qui est une arnaque mondiale ne me permettant de ne toucher qu'une poignée de centimes par vente.
Portez-vous bien si vous êtes nobles.

As requests came to appear throughout my gallery, the deviantPRINT option is now available for some of my previous works. To know which ones, just click on the "Prints" button next my name up there, with the bag icon.
DeviantART is for the moment settling huge price-cuts on them.
I don't know for how long so do not hesitate if you feel like buying one or two.

For the ones who are not extremely familiar with deviantART shopping, don't get frightened if you see excessive prices, it is all a presentation problem. A drawing can be cheap if you don't take any frame with it, or if you pick a rather small size and a basic paper texture.

With the money collected, I would look for tools to improve my expression capacities. It could take the shape of books, paint or even pens. I would very well thank you if you came to help me. If questions appear or if anyone wishes a drawing was made especially, just let me know.

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Du côté français, sachez que les Prints sont maintenant disponibles. En cliquant sur le côté SHOP de la galerie, il est désormais possible d'acheter des impressions de haute qualité. Les prix peuvent au début paraître exhorbitant mais ce n'est qu'une question d'accessoires, de préférence ou de très haute qualité. Demandez le dessin sans cadre -frame- et les prix diminueront.
De grosses réductions sont actuellement en place, en raison de la nouveauté de l'activité.

Merci..!

Hellow#

As I have recently been saying in comments, I am resizing my drawings in order to offer here a print option for some of them.
Being a little bit tight with money this month, I will provide it as soon as possible -certainly in a week or so-.
I have no idea if this could work out or not, but I will give it a try. I sure hope it will though, as I try my best to give you excellent quality for the drawings concerned.

There's also this new coloring technique about which I wanted to say something. It involves both traditional and digital work.
Traditional painting really came to be a pain in the brains to me, so I made up my mind and picked up black pens as shading tools. I still use acrylics, but I mainly do in order to emphasize the shading or to color a bit.
After scanning, I look in the color panel for the right tone to work with, and this is the digital part. Just this. That is why I keep on qualifying my drawings as Traditional Art, since there is but a quick computer assistance.

New drawings are to come, see you around..!

PS: if anyone here is interested in a specific drawing he would like to see as a print, just let me know.

Helluw#

I decided to sum my gallery up, deleting many old drawings that are now of no interest to me -they were very bad..!

As some might have already seen, I started fanarts a week ago. Final Fantasy IX is the current theme. There are Vivi and Quina in the main gallery, and poor Zidane in the scraps.

I am also on my way to make another story, such as I did with I will Remember You.
I think I am now skilled and wise enough to create another work. It would be this time a less short and a tad more complex story. The plot is not yet completely done.

I hope you are doing great and crazy, and I thank you for the six thousand visits. -now more-.

Helluw#

I haven't submitted anything lately, again.
I want to improve the drawings' emotion, first. To really focus on the right colors to use, the right lines to draw, the right expression to follow.. This reminds me how it is good to illustrate.

So, I don't have anything to show tonight but as one in on the finish line, it should come in a couple days or weeks now. Studies are boring, nothing prevents me from it.

Good Night~

Edit: So as to prove my will to draw again, here's in the recent submitions a glimpse of my new work

Edit: Sorry, I screwed up the drawing with the painting, once more. I need one of this digital things, I think only that will help. I don't feel good, never felt for years, and I am now loosing this one thing that made me proud.
It's a fuckin' world we live in.

Edit2: Actually, on the road again! I'm learning from my failures and am handling back the painting at last. It will be different from what I was looking for in the first place, but I guess that's usual.

TRALALALALALAAH !
Deep thanks to all people who faved, are watching, and are actually coming down my page.

I have no sad story for you today, sorry! My life is somehow stable for the moment.

I'm looking for a deviantART Subscription, but I'm lacking of money. So, if anyone here is gentle, kind, and feels like offering me one, I'd be very grateful to him/her.
That subscription would allow me to introduce more works, and would eventually drive me to draw more.



I'm going to buy some coke, because coke, it's good.

Righ now, I'm listening to Garden State's original soundtrack. It makes me feel glad but blurry and melancholy, like I would probably feel if I could solve any intimate trouble just by thinking "Okay, you're a trouble."
I like it.

But what I more like is that I'm ending my crazy/intense/horrific/beautiful/sad romance, about which I already wrote a few lines in my last journal.
I came to know the Lady with more efficiency, and she turned out to be afraid and annoyed by me. Enable to change things and make'em right, I let her go.
So, here I stand, free to discover new worlds.
I feel still lonely, though, remembering the path I've achieved.

Anyway, CONCERNING THE USA BOOK, HAHAHAH.
The friend of mine (named Sarah Lauro) who allowed me to do the covering of her book returned back home in California and met her friend who apparently loved my work. You can get a view of it here : [link]
The book is a complete and interesting study of the Zombie creature, made of texts on its psychological/historic/artistic/.. sides.
The name is : Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-human

It's not on sale yet, but I'll let you know about any release date.

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edit : I've been inactive for 2 months now, and I'm sorry about it if you follow my work. My mood went down, my computer went down, my head went down.. All went down, so I have to fix it before going on.

editII : I submitted two shots of the next drawing in the scraps. I hope you like it, it will be finishd in a couple of days.

So, here comes the comic!
This work that meant so much to me!

It is both a personnal achievement and an entry for a contest. The subject of this contest was "Red", and demanded a maximum amount of seven pages. I made six.  Six pages about a little blond boy who, lost in his own private room, proves his passion for the one he loves by painting her portrait on the walls. In struggle with that passion, he devotes his life to it by getting devored.

The kid is obviously me. And the girl, the one I'm in love with.
I tried to be rather sincere with this work. It is only my first comic, so it might look awkward, but I think there are in these pages emotions and thoughts that have come and ruled into me for over a year.
I wish this comic could make things better and safer, but I'm not really sure it will do. I just hope, while being devored ;D


There are two versions of it. The first one is English, the second one is French. I thought it would be much easier that way.

English: [link]
French: [link]


Edit :     3000, Thank You

But contest lost. They apparently expected from people something more social-centered. My love romance should have taken place in Iraq, amongst the bombs. They'd have enjoyed.
Oh and, 3 persons were supposed to be selected.. Only one is.



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Hey Hi Ho, Frenchies, retour à la langue maternelle. Ainsi donc, voici la bande dessinée pour laquelle j'ai consacré ces trois ou quatre derniers mois.

Elle met en scène un garçon isolé dans sa chambre, en proie à une passion virulente. N'ayant plus qu'à prouver son amour et son dévouement à celle qu'il aime, il peint son portrait sur les murs autour de lui, transpercé d'émotions. Une fois son hommage achevé, il prend la décision de poursuivre son amour désespéré, et se laisse dévorer par la peinture, ruisselante de vie.

J'ai tenté d'être quelque peu sincère dans ce qu'elle exprime et évoque. La bande-dessinée se compose donc de mes dix derniers mois, au cours desquels je ne sais toujours pas ce qui s'est passé, ni ce qui continue à se passer.

On verra bien.

Yes, yes, been off a moment.

Things in my head got worse, and worse, and then crazy-but-still-worse. Now, I'm officially alone with my scarecrows. And things are not really better. But they get rushed from now on. I found myself luckily asked to make the covering of a book that is to be released later in the US. That's why I'm Englishly talking to you.
I'm very excited about that and proud to have this work to do.

But mood isn't sunny and delighted. I'm also involved in the making of a comics of my own, and that takes a loooong time to do. I could give up this work and heavily focus on the amazing USA thing, for sure, but the point is that this comics represents all I've risked and loved for the past year. It is all the reasons why I'm now staring empty and waiting for things back. I don't think I can nor want to give up that neither.
I might use the comics as a work for a quite interesting contest, which sadly ends in a month.
Nevertheless, I'm intending to get over with both on time. Means a lot.

The third -and final- reason of my non-presence here, is well-known as "exams". Yeah, sucks. So boring. I'm a Japanese/English learner at university, but I do have some subjects such as Economy or Marketing. Who'd want to learn 40 pages of "Constitutional Right" while you could be screaming to the whole world "コーヒーが大好きよーー!"?
I truly wouldn't.

Anyway, I'm now ending this journal update.
Pleasure writing here again.

See you soon on my pages I hope =]

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Edit : I saved Her edited in a better lightened version.

Edit2 : The comics' finished but my computer went down. It should work again in a couple of weeks. I guess I'll post it when I'm back.
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Les Frenchgays, je dis juste que je bosse là et que je suis assez occupé en c'moment car je dois entre autre m'amuser à réviser mes exams tout proches, m'accrocher dans la réalisation d'une bédé "pas comme les autres", et dans le making d'illustrations d'un livre prochainement en vente aux Etats-Unis.
Ouais, un vrai USA Boy.

Je dois faire une séance zen.  Parce que je suis un grand malade.
Les choses s'arrangent, il suffit d'être.. patient.

Donc, en préambule de ma sérénité activée, va se dérouler dans les lignes qui suivent une liste de mes 10 chansons les plus actives de mon lecteur. Forcément, MUCC joue les Huns et envahit 8 places, hahaah.

1. Dreaming of You -The Coral


2. Rojiura Boku to Kimi e -MUCC


3. Zetsubou -MUCC


4. Theme of Laura -Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill 2


5. Isho -MUCC


6. Kugatsu mikka no kokuin -MUCC


7. Akai Sora -MUCC


8. Waga, arubeki basho -MUCC


9. Kaeranu hito -MUCC


10. Saishuu ressha -MUCC

Et puis, Je suis Psykokwak.