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Victor Cabanelas  

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I'd bet Hitchcock used to lived at my place..

Journal Entry: Tue May 6, 2008, 6:14 PM
  • Mood: Neutral
  • Listening to: Gamma Ray's "Skeletons in the Closet"
  • Reading: "The 3 Musketeers", by Alexandre Dumas,
  • Watching: Mythbusters!
  • Playing: Air drums...
  • Eating: Marlboros (Almost literally, I tell you...)
  • Drinking: water for the next 5 minutes...
Hey there, folks!

As you probably know, I moved to a new apartment last september. Now, I have to say that, being a big and old place some of the weird stuff that I've seen or heard could just be my imagination, but I wouldn't be too sure. Please allow me to explain.

The first thing that came to my mind when I looked to my bedroom's window was a deja vu of the view of "The Rear Window" (I tell you, all is missing is a couple sleeping in the balcony). Some time later, when my mom checks out the view, she thinks of "The Birds". The reason? There's like a million of doves that like to sit on those balconies (sp?)...

Wanna hear some weird stuff? One of my neighbors plays tennis every saturday afternoon... I think. I mean, when he returns he isn't sweated nor has his hair wet from a shower. But the weirdest thing about that guy happened a couple weeks ago: I usually finish working between 10 and 11 pm, after that, I take a shot of whiskey and smoke a cigarette looking at the (desert) streets at night. Now, again, a couple weeks ago, I finished working a bit later (say 11:30 pm) and I see this guy stop his car in the middle of the street. Goes to the passanger side, pics up a bottle of water from the seat with an effort that seemed unreal (it looked as if it weighted like 20 pounds), goes walking through the street for what it seemed like a couple blocks and then comes back again, heavy bottle included. I thought "well, he must have gone to the fuel station that's a block away and got some distilled water" It surprised me that he actually walked there instead of going with his car but what the Hell? And then he surprises me again: He gets another heavy bottle from his car and goes walking back again. WTF?! Though I was tempted to keep watching, my stomach won that round and I just went to make myself some dinner.

Another late night weirdness happened a night I was wrapping up a story. Throughout the entire summer, I had people living in the apartment next to my kitchen/studio, but after Easter they left. Nothing happened till that night I was talking about, say, 2-3 weeks after Easter. It was like 4 am and, during a smoke break, I looked to my left and notice the curtain open, but no lights are turned on. I just guessed that they might have arrived sometime during the day and were out at the moment. Next morning (actually, it was more like noon), I wake up look at that window again and... the curtains are closed. "Well, they probably overslept", I thought. For a week, nothing changed, then one day, yep, you guessed it: The curtains were up again. And they have been ever since. The weird thing's that nobody's living there (if they do, they're the most silent people I always knew. Oh, and they never turn the lights on...). We're 4 blocks away from the beach and on one of the main streets, whenever they return, I pity whoever has to clean the windows, assuming they're still there when they return.

And there's even more stuff: The people above my bedroom move their furniture around every single day at 8 am (but I'm usually too drunk to care), the ones that close their business at noon and remain inside them till they open at 5 pm, the fact that I only had to pay the electricity bill once since I got here (thank God! :)), the fact that I only had the actual phone bill delivered once (though I still had to pay the ones I didn't get :(), the guy who goes in his bike from bar to bar doing... nothing, I gues, and even more I don't remember right now...

Oh, and I'm sure people probably think that the weirdest thing of all is the comicbook artist who works pretty much the whole day banging his head to heavy metal music being played so loud you can actually listen to it in the street ;)

Now, about my professional life, I'm still working on the Untitled Western. Pages are coming out slower than usual, but I'm using reference for pretty much every single thing, so that was bound to happen. I'm also doing sample pages and other stuff and (in case you were wondering), I'm still looking for a new project, so please let me know if you have something on your mind.

About my personal life, everything's still the same (things tend to remain the same when you're poor). Oh, and I get to eat this month thanks to: :iconrabguy:. Thanks again, Ryan!

And thanks to you for reading!

Devious Information

  • Current Age: 25
  • Current Residence: Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Interests: Arts, History, drawing, reading books, swimming, movies, music, kendo.
  • Favourite movie: Spider-Man, The Rock, LOTR, Men of Honor, The Naked Gun (all 3 of them!!!), Ronin...
  • Favourite band or musician: Lyle Lovett, Manowar, Dark Moor, Hammerfall, Nightwish, Jorn Lande, Makoto Ozone, Miles Davis...
  • Favourite genre of music: Jazz, but I can't work while listening to it, so it's HEAVY METAL most of the time :)
  • Favourite artist: Michelangiolo Buonarroti, Geoge Pérez, Watsuki Nobuhiro
  • Favourite poet or writer: Alexandre Dumas
  • Favourite photographer: Pete Parker, of course!
  • Favourite style or digital art: Comicbooks and Fine Arts (wait... Comicbooks are Fine Arts!!!)
  • Operating System: Windows
  • MP3 player of choice: Winamp :D
  • Wallpaper of choice: the cover of Manowar's "Kings of Metal"
  • Favourite game: Age of Empires 2
  • Favourite gaming platform: PC
  • Favourite cartoon character: Spider-Man, Himura Kenshin
  • Personal Quote: "I don´t have any confidence issues, I know I suck."
  • Tools of the Trade: Pencils, paper, pens, brushes, ink and Photoshop.

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Devious Comments

~VikThor:iconVikThor: Apr 28, 2008, 1:53:24 PM
No prob! I'm gonna try to stick around more often, anyway :)

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Victor Cabanelas

Freelance comicbook artist.
A proud member of Ronin Studios: [link]
ComicSpace page:
[link]
~VikThor:iconVikThor: Apr 28, 2008, 1:46:01 PM
A million thanks, man! :)

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Victor Cabanelas

Freelance comicbook artist.
A proud member of Ronin Studios: [link]
ComicSpace page:
[link]
~gwdill:icongwdill: Apr 27, 2008, 5:42:17 AM
Nice works! Keep it up!

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*Managuan:iconManaguan: Apr 25, 2008, 9:38:15 PM
Thanks for the fav...glad to hear from you...:D
*thincage:iconthincage: Apr 25, 2008, 5:01:11 AM
Very cool, very cool.

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Jeremy Dale
Comicbook illustrator on:
- G.I. Joe (Hasbro)
- Miserable Dastards (Dial C/803 Studios)
- Popgun v.1 (Image)
- Space Doubles (Th3rdWorld)
- Absolute Zeroes (Heroforge)


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~VikThor:iconVikThor: Apr 24, 2008, 1:14:09 PM
You're welcome, Jeremy! I'm just sorry I am poor, otherwise I'd be buying Gi-Joe and any other thing you might be working on right now...

Oh, and I added your wife to my friends list, also! :)

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Victor Cabanelas

Freelance comicbook artist.
A proud member of Ronin Studios: [link]
ComicSpace page:
[link]
*thincage:iconthincage: Apr 24, 2008, 12:42:19 PM
Thanks for the +fave on my Obi-wan and Neo piece, Vic! Pleased you're enjoying my work.

- jeremy

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Jeremy Dale
Comicbook illustrator on:
- G.I. Joe (Hasbro)
- Miserable Dastards (Dial C/803 Studios)
- Popgun v.1 (Image)
- Space Doubles (Th3rdWorld)
- Absolute Zeroes (Heroforge)


[link]
~VikThor:iconVikThor: Apr 24, 2008, 10:28:09 AM
Then write about boring stuff! That way I don't have to read it ;)

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Victor Cabanelas

Freelance comicbook artist.
A proud member of Ronin Studios: [link]
ComicSpace page:
[link]
~RudyVasquez:iconRudyVasquez: Apr 21, 2008, 4:01:16 PM
No worries man. I'd rather you spent any extra time drawing than commenting on my page anyway.

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"Now if I tell you that I am that good you will say that I am Boasting, if I tell you that I am not, you will know I am lying." BRUCE LEE
~Cadre:iconCadre: Apr 21, 2008, 4:23:56 AM
:D

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The Cadre Corner Studios

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~VikThor:iconVikThor: Apr 18, 2008, 12:59:58 PM
Oh, you got me on that one, Rudy: I have no idea what "nary" means :D

Anyway, thanks for the fav and, just for the record, I started reading your last couple journals, but will comment whenever I finish doing so (man, you write too much :p)... Oh, and I'll drop by your gallery after that ;)

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Victor Cabanelas

Freelance comicbook artist.
A proud member of Ronin Studios: [link]
ComicSpace page:
[link]
~VikThor:iconVikThor: Apr 18, 2008, 12:58:04 PM
You're welcome, Jesse. It's always wonderful to see great art :)

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Victor Cabanelas

Freelance comicbook artist.
A proud member of Ronin Studios: [link]
ComicSpace page:
[link]
~RudyVasquez:iconRudyVasquez: Apr 17, 2008, 6:33:19 PM
Dropped by with nary a word from you?....well Hello Vic.

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"Now if I tell you that I am that good you will say that I am Boasting, if I tell you that I am not, you will know I am lying." BRUCE LEE
~Cadre:iconCadre: Apr 17, 2008, 4:31:30 AM
hey man... thanks for the fave of "CORNERSTONE 2 Cover Process" to your faves... your show of appreciation and support as always is greatly appreciated in return. Hope ya check out the book and like what you see.

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Jesse "Cadre" Hansen
The Cadre Corner Studios

Jesse Hansen Personal Site: [link]
Cadre Corner Website: [link]
Cadre Corner Forums: [link]
MySpace: [link]
*trialsze:icontrialsze: Jan 21, 2008, 10:57:10 AM
Cool beans my friend. Lookin forward to it.
~VikThor:iconVikThor: Jan 19, 2008, 4:57:23 PM
You too, bro! :) I'm hoping to check your work more periodically now, as I got internet at home again :)

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Victor Cabanelas

Freelance comicbook artist.
A proud member of Ronin Studios: [link]
ComicSpace page:
[link]
*trialsze:icontrialsze: Jan 5, 2008, 9:15:51 AM
Thanks for the fav buddy. Hope you had a great new year.
~leon-mcnichols:iconleon-mcnichols: Nov 5, 2007, 7:15:02 PM
I know excellent talent when I see it.
Yea he is, he has a lot of insight.
~VikThor:iconVikThor: Nov 5, 2007, 3:47:29 PM
A million thanks, man!

Yeah, Mickey's a great guy! :)

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Victor Cabanelas

Freelance comicbook artist.
A proud member of Ronin Studios: [link]
ComicSpace page:
[link]
~leon-mcnichols:iconleon-mcnichols: Oct 30, 2007, 12:07:42 PM
Love work man, saw you worked with an old friend and ex boss of mine Mickey. You guys make a great team.....
~yusef-abonamah:iconyusef-abonamah: Jun 23, 2007, 2:55:53 AM
Thanks!

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If we want to get to the truth, we have to get back to the fairy tales and myths.
~ Chesterson
~VikThor:iconVikThor: Jun 23, 2007, 2:02:11 AM
Sorry for the delay, I just saw this one...

Anyway, thanks for the nice words about my work.

The only two advices I can give are: 1) Always practice storytelling: One of the best ways I know to do this is to "translate" a novel into a comicbook. At least to do the roughs. That'll help you a lot.

2) is to discipline yourself to work every day as much as possible (but make sure you have enough resting time or you're gonna suffer from the excess!). When you work every day, it's harder to see the progress, but it's the best way to get better.

Hope that helps and thanks again! :)

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Victor Cabanelas

Freelance comicbook artist.
A proud member of Ronin Studios: [link]
ComicSpace page:
[link]
~yusef-abonamah:iconyusef-abonamah: Jun 11, 2007, 3:18:56 AM
Your art is really great, I was wondering you have any tips for an aspiring comic artist.
~Anmph:iconAnmph: May 22, 2007, 10:15:32 AM
Thanks for the add!!!

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~PokerGambit:iconPokerGambit: Jan 31, 2007, 4:35:27 PM
de nada, maestro

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