So long!

It has been so long since I have posted here. I wanted to keep it slightly updated for new people who are coming around here. Wanted to let you guys know that I've got many more places you can check me out.

First off is my portfolio site which you can find at http://mjb-art.com 
this website has new work as well as old to show you the things I have been working on.

Here is my web-comic, http://infracity.thecomicseries.com/, that I update every week on Thursdays! I hope that you guys dig it.  Here is the Facebook page for you as well https://www.facebook.com/InfracityComic

Have fun with the story and check me out at my social media pages and accounts where you can feel free to message and talk to me any time!

My Instagram 
My Twitter

I want you guys to know that I'm still here and I am still creating!

-Marcelo

Portals to new Great Places!

It's been a long while since I've posted in this blog. I've gone on to other places to show my work.

I finally started the webcomic InfraCity you can find it here: http://infracity.tumblr.com/

The FaceBook page can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/InfracityComic

My full art website is here: http://marbotic.com/home.html

Check all these out! I'll see you there.

-Marcelo

You can hear the music amongst the trees.

This little piece up here is probably going to become a new print to sell. Been creating a lot more stuff recently.  Also I love to text my friends to tell me to draw/paint something because I get something like this:

That's my friend Lizette fighting some zombies. Dreams do come true ladies and gentlemen. Went to C2e2 this past weekend and I got Ryan Kelly to sign my hardcover copy of Local. It was a pretty great time. There are a couple more things that I've been throwing together for your viewing enjoyment...such as this:

And this:

I'll return to leave things for you to view wit your eyeballs!

-Mar

My life is different now I swear

Life has been throwing me some curveballs lately and I figured it's time to forge a new path. Push through into all the things that I want to do. Finish the Loud graphic novel and other comic ideas, open up some new freelance opportunities, try to get some new artwork out, and finally polish my style. It's a new chapter of life for me and I'm going to accept it and steer it in the direction that I want to.
Here is the first of new artwork from me. Voices I had while I was just dealing with these changes and every thought in my head was just pulling me in all different directions. Voices in my head just telling me every contradicting idea and how to pull it off. Voices that I know I should listen to and some that I just need to drown out. Voices that I know sometimes we all hate to listen to.
This is a time for changing and adjusting to the new path. I'll be around more often.
See you around.
-Marcelo

Workingman's Hands

Whoa! It's here again! Chicago Comic-Con is storming into the city again and we'll be smack dab in the middle of it for a third time! Exclamation point! In a few days we'll be selling prints, postcards, paintings, commission sketches, and my graphic novel Loud:Chapter One complete. If you're in Chicago and don't have plans this weekend come and check us out at table 3151, and if you do have plans... break them and come see us at table 3151.

Remember to look for these 2 foreheads.
And here is a throw down of the stuff we'll have at the table.

See you folks at Chicago Comic Con and stay classy.

Leaving on Red Hill.

So I said I would post some more story pages of Tech Ranger and here they are. I tried to just use ink nibs at first but I just didn't feel like it was my work. So I started playing around with brush pen and Eureka! It reminds me of Loud but it has a different energy about it. So after I'm done with this little preview story for Tech Ranger- which will be very soon- I'm gonna move on to finishing Loud. So here are the first 3 pages of "The Last Tech Ranger: To The Rescue".
Also Jodi Hoover and I will be selling our artwork and a bunch of other things at Chicago Comic-Con this summer on August 12-14. Come by and visit check out our work and feel free to buy anything on the table. Hope to see you guys there!

-Marcelo

"Hi my name is Pluto! Pllllllllllllllbrt!"

This is Pluto, he's an Ice Elemental! He makes the cold, the snow, and the ice. He hangs out with other elementals and has fun because they are all a playful bunch. He's weak against fire types but his best friend is Apollo the fire elemental. Together they just run around the world causing all sorts of crazy problems like climate change. You can't be mad at them though because those whipper snappers are adorable.

The Great Hunger is Upon Me!

Here is a redesign of The Devourer of Worlds, Galactus. Still trying to keep his outfit a little sleek, while also keeping the same color scheme. All this with try to make it Galactus. I think I did a good job of "modernizing" the helmet. The helmet is what makes Galactus recognizable, those two prongs sticking out of his head. Also the stone cold expression on his face. The hole in his chest is the energy that he has drained from worlds and when it gets dark in dim in there, he hungers for another planet. The holes in his hands and chest are to plug the machine that he uses, to feed off of planets, into him. He's a hungry hungry man.
Good night surfer.

Never Seen A Bluer Sky

Well hello there. Been a while hasn't it? How have you been? Good. Well I moved to a new place with a Cat in a Wall. New ideas have been forming and a new story is being created as we speak. So Loud is still in production but was on a bit of a delay due to a loss of the script. But it was found and recovered so we're back on that. A new light bulb hit me while i was working on Loud.
A new story inspired by memories from my childhood, memories of Power Rangers. It opened up inspirations from all Power Rangers from Japan, the original versions of what some of us watched as kids. And the new stuff that's over there across the ocean. So yes, this new story is about a young man named Edward who was once part of a squad of teenage Superheroes called The Tech Rangers.
Something happened and his two teammates fell while saving their city. Monsters have seemingly perished and the city is quiet for 5 years. But what happens when only one man remembers the feats he's accomplished and an old evil starts to creep back into the streets? One hero rises again and unlocks a mystery of old enemies in a new world.
Here's a preview:

Wanderer and The Princess of War

The Wanderer finds himself caught between a woman and her father the king of Planet War.

Boring by the sea.

Happy late holidays friends. Been with family and such over the past month, hope you all enjoyed the holiday time. Took a teensy break working on Loud but I've got some writing and sketching down.
Over 2 years ago I started working on this beast. First time I've ever stuck with an idea because I felt that this was a story worth telling. So there are over 60 pages of this with more to come. Here is a glimpse of pages not yet seen.



Writing this story has been fun and testing my creative abilities. Plans for publishing and such will begin start to sprout from my head as the year goes on. Enjoy the artwork because the story is a little over halfway done, and there will be little peeks here and there to show where it is at. An update on the work for it by the way is Jodi Hoover will be editing and doing the colors for the Graphic Novel as we move closer to delivering it to the masses.

Foolish and Reckless

A submission for a poster contest for Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Trying to go in a direction that makes the poster look old and printed while still making it pop and look fresh. Another thing I implemented in the piece is the use of Kirby dots it looks kind of cool. I am liking the way that it came out. The colors pop!


Keep fighting,
Marcelo

A new generation of Horror Story

I've been getting into the whole creepy pasta thing on the internet. Primarily they are scary stories that are being blogged everyday at various websites. I've fallen in love with the ones that have to do with old video games and video game cartridges. Here is a good one about the old Zelda game Majora's Mask . There are other pokemon ones as well. This illustration is inspired by the Zelda story on the prior link. Enjoy the story and the image!

Stay scared,
Marcelo

Meet me in the stars!

A few updates of new images and works in progress. First is an embodiment, this one is called Creation, he who is the one that gives birth to worlds, and life, so that he may study all new things that grow and evolve.
Then a new piece that is spinning off from the series of Embodiments. It's a breed of adventure told through prose accompanied by a single image to help shape the audiences view of these worlds and adventure. The Wanderer is a mix of John Carter of mars and the Silver Surfer. These are process photos of the piece so check em out and I'll post a photo of it as soon as it's done.

Pencils on the wood:

After this it's gesso'd and penciled again.


Also don't forget if you are in the Chicago area this weekend come on down to the Chicago Comic-Con at the Donald E. Stevens Convention Center, a ton of great guest, and a ton of great people to see in Artists Alley including me, Jodi Hoover, and Jesse Nelson who are sharing a table together. Come Friday let the fun begin!

See you there,
Marcelo Biott

Fumes and Screens and Fun

Sooooooooooo, after a venue change, and some excitement, we got the posters done for this friday's show. It is now at the Double Door in Chicago. I hope to see you guys there. It'll be like a party, a party of awesome. It's a set of 15 prints and they will be sold at the show for $10. It was all in a day's work.Made of some nice paper, spray paint, and silkscreens. Most importantly love!
Here they ALL are for your viewing pleasure!
Love it,
Marcelo

There's a plastic tree...

Modi created another poster for the band Northpilot. If you are in Chicago on the 30th go check them out. If you haven't heard them yet here they are. Enjoy the image, prints will be sold at the show and at Comic-Con and other festivals we will do.

Come with me if you want to live.

I know, I know wrong movie but I could not resist. Here's my redesigned Terminator poster.

A newborn babe

The final poster in the series I'm making for the Alien films. This is Alien 3.

Game over

Another digital image and a simplified reimagining of the sequel to Alien, Aliens. Sketched out the idea in thumbnails then I worked magic with the pen tool. It was an experiment in patience, but luckily the images turned out great. Enjoy it guys!

No one can hear you scream

I'm starting to re-imagine posters for classic movies. Here is a rework of one of my favorites. It is completely digital and I am trying to keep them very simplistic and still interesting. I think I've accomplished this.