Broci's blog of imaginary things

Omnipresence 2

2016-07-12T23:35:00.002-07:00

The line art of the Omnipresence comic is finished and the colors are done.

The final comic will be published full color in Rikki-zine that will come out 2.9.2016. The zine will be presented at the Rikki exhibition, where I'll also have two works exhibited.

During work I had problems on deciding what the character would have looked like. First sketches had a girl character but after thinking about it I decided to use a non-binary character, because then the focus would be more on BPD and not the gender. Well at least that's what I had in mind.

first concept sketch of the comic

The colors of the comic were inspired by Matteo DeLongis' work. I have admired his work for a long time. His colors are very soft and dream-like with strong color accents in details. I wanted to try out my own take on the dream like color scheme while adding bright neon-like splashes in crucial spots.
I guess I ended up using the neon colors a bit like a highlighter. In the end the colors became heavy and more like a bad dream, which worked perfect because of the theme of the comic which is BPD.

final colors

The final comic will be published in Rikki-zine. It's the first issue. Presented at THIRD SPACE gallery in Helsinki 2.9.2016 (Gallery THIRD SPACE, Tarkk'ampujankatu 18, Helsinki). The exhibition itself will be open from29.8. to 4.9.2016, so if you're in town at the time, come by and say hi. The book will be found at Helsinki's comic festival 2.–4.9.2016.
Or send me a message:
m.broci@yahoo.com

sketch of Omnipresence: Hetkiä

Omnipresence 1

2016-06-30T03:50:00.000-07:00

Omnipresence is a small series of comics and illustrations that I have mad and have yet to make, that are exploring the mind and it's fragility and strength, It illustrates the development and remedy of an insane mind. It's twistedness and possible slow recovery. This comic will be about Borderline Personality Disorder and the way it manifests itself. The theme is very personal to me so I want to execute it properly.

This particular comic is designed for Rikki-project, which is a zine exploring mental illnesses. Currently the zine will contain works from 25 artists from Finland. It will contain color- and black and white works. The zine will contain everything from comics, to illustrations and photography.

My own work will be a 5 paged comic, full color, which is pretty rare for me, since I never know how to use colors in my comics. I'm excited and scared to try making a comic in color, since I'm not very comfortable with my color schemes... But hopefully I will learn something new in color use during this project.
I'm a bit scared that it will not look exactly like I want it to look like, but I will do my best to get it right.

The Finnish title for the comic is Omnipresence: Hetkiä (which means omnipresence: moments)
I wanted to call the series "Omnipresence" because I think it illustrates perfectly the state of mind of certain mental states. It's like you are in your mind, but at the same time you are looking at yourself from outside. From somewhere else. Particularly in BPD it's like you are observing yourself trough the eyes of others, but not like the others see you for real. More like how YOU THINK they see you. And it's often twisted and completely false way of seeing yourself. And often it triggers paranoia and crushing anxiety.

I will make the comic using pencils, because it's something I haven't done before I really wanted to try out what the comic would look like without ink. The other reason for using pencils is that I can control the lightness and heaviness of the line art better. Pencil gives the possibility to make fog-like textures and smoother movement lines.

The sketches are all done, now there's only character design that's left and then the real work begins.

stupid comics by Broci

2015-07-20T08:45:00.000-07:00

I started drawing these little comics when I realized that our school had a confusing map hanging on the wall. It showed that you can be in three places at once. Since then I've started documenting small weird things that happen in my life. Of course most of them contain stories about my cat Kisu (aka. as Lapanen and Kisuli) and his goofing around and being his fabulous self.

I did make small micro zines out of them. They turned out pretty cool. Full color 4-page page-turner zine comes out once a year or so... Around Helsinki's comic festival. I also post most of the comics here: READ THE COMIC HERE

Silver and pearls

2015-03-31T05:05:00.002-07:00

About half a year ago I had a chanse to work with Maria Hästbäcka a photographer from Lahti. She needed some help finding clothes for her fashionshoot course, and I was glad to help with my work and styling.

Maria was looking for a glamorous type of fasion shoot with lots of glitter but still sophisticated, so I searched my collection and found some pieces that I thought would fit the idea perfectly. In the end the style was a bit of a modern take on a gangsters girl from the fifties. As a styling we ended up using Hollywood inspired, but lighter and funkier make-up and hair created by awesome Tom Schevelin from Qhair. Maija from Paparazzi worked as our fabulous model.

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Berry Flavored skittles

2015-01-26T03:47:00.001-08:00

Yesterday Rindalin was helping me out with the inking of the second part of second chapter.
The second chapter will be online first week of February!!

Laser fauns

2015-01-17T09:16:00.000-08:00

I have finally learned to use the lasering machine in our school.

I have wanted to learn how to operate the laser machine since the day it arrived at our school, but with a tight schedule and lots of projects going on non-stop, I have never gotten the opportunity until this Friday. Finally there was some free time to thoroughly sit down and make something with laser cutter.

So I decided to make these little creatures. I've had these fauns already made into stickers and they were pretty popular among people at anime conventions and Christmas markets. So last time I was at Yukicon in Espoo, some people asked me if I could make these fauns into magnets, so I decided to give it a shot and it was a great excuse to finally try out the machine.

The machine was pretty easy to operate. The only problem that I came across was that the original design had too much narrow parts in it which might have snapped off in the use, but other than that the final product seems to be pretty durable now that I fixed that problem.

I love the smoky smell that these fauns have from the laser burning through wood, it reminds me of sauna in the forest.. very nostalgic. The wood I used is birch (just because Lahti has almost a non-existing range of plywood that's just the right thickness) but the plywood I got turned out to be just fine. I've heard that some students from our school have found pretty bad quality plywood to work with, so it was my luck that the sheet that I found was decent.

The magnets will be available at Desucon Frostbite this February.

Bad Friday Chapter 2 Part 1

2014-12-22T00:14:00.001-08:00

First part of the second chapter of my webcomic "Bad Friday" is now online!

You can read it here: Bad Friday - The story of a cursed church Part 1

This second chapter introduces all the protagonists in the comic. Although not everyone of the protagonists gets a spotlight in this chapter, all of them are shown together for the first time.

I wanted to introduce Gregory Crossways story in this chapter.
He is a sort of an alchemist and a (not very good) sorcerer. Also, he likes to get things his way regardless of what will happen to anyone or anything around him. This chapter is maybe more of a demonstration of his powers and recklessness that him in general, but this is a start.

The inspiration for this chapter came from a couple of places. One of which is a story found in Finnish mythology about ghastly spirits called Kalmanväki. They were believed to be ghosts of the deceased (or alternatively faeries and demons) that went into church (usually at night) to have their mass. They never appeared to be hostile towards the living, but when touched they could cause sickness and death.
In this story I wanted to imagine how these kind of spirits could be made into evil beings. So I came up with an evil priest who damned his devotees and caused chaos in his church. His inhuman black mass rituals and dark beliefs lead to sacrificing his worshipers and himself to darkness leaving the church to deteriorate.
Decades later Gregory gets a great idea to wake the spirits for entertainment and some ulterior motives.

I've been wanting to draw ghost stories for a long time, since horror and paranormal has been an interest of mine for as long as I can remember. So while drawing this comic I wanted to tribute some of my favorite creepy (and not so creepy) movies, bands and stories. That was basically the reason why I wanted to draw this comic in the first place.I'm still not sure wether I should call this a horror comic, maybe not yet. But that's what I planned this project to be. Sort of a paranormal/creepy/horror hybrid with weird stuff happening all the time everywhere and to anyone and everyone.

So please enjoy the comic and hit it with a comment or two. Tell me what you think guys.

Living Dead Dolls 31

2014-11-19T23:24:00.000-08:00

Here is one extra.

31 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series Exclusive
Revenant

"An image from the past, she roams eternally,
Reliving the horrid night of a twisted tragedy.
To gaze upon this ghost, you'll witness her demise,
For she is a harbinger of death as you will surely realize."

© 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz

Living Dead Dolls 30

2014-11-19T23:21:00.001-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series 22
Patience Xero

"Patience was the first of the plague.
What might have caused itto this day is vague.
What is known is that she died
and then she came back."

© 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz

Living Dead Dolls 29

2014-11-19T23:15:00.000-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series Exclusive
Nohell

© 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz

Living Dead Dolls 28

2014-11-19T23:08:00.001-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series Exclusive
Jack and Jill

"Jack and Jill went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of slaughter.
Jack fell down the well,
that led to hell
For Jill was satan's daughter."

© 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz

Living Dead Dolls 27

2014-11-19T23:07:00.000-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series Exclusive
Penny

"Poor little Penny hit the street with her head,
Now she keeps company with creatures under your bed."

© 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz

Living Dead Dolls 26

2014-11-17T10:38:00.001-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series Exclusive
Hazel and Hattie

"Hazel and Hattie were born one of a kind.
Hattie died suddenly before their time.
Hazel wasn't ready to accept death with her,
So Hattie arose to bond them by murder."

© 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz

Living Dead Dolls 25

2014-11-17T08:52:00.001-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series 26
Samhain

"Death of the summer, season to reap
Until next celebration Samhain shall sleep"

© 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz

Living Dead Dolls 24

2014-11-13T22:05:00.000-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series 21
Absynth

"killed by the wizard and thrust into the void
when she reemerged she was quite paranoid "

© 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz

Living Dead Dolls 23

2014-11-13T03:21:00.000-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series 20
Camilla

"Stoned to death because she didn't quite fit,
Into their games, into their cliques.
She tried to run but had a trip!
Poor fallen Camilla didn't die quick."

© 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz

Living Dead Dolls 22

2014-11-13T03:19:00.000-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series 17
Sipder Bite

"a spider laid eggs in her face on her cheek
all you could hear was her bloody shriek
she was stricken ill and was in need of rest
unaware in her cheek was a spider egg nest"

© 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz

Living Dead Dolls 21

2014-11-12T00:00:00.001-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series 21
Tenebre

"When you are surrounded by shadows
And into the blackness you peer
That is where you can find Tenebre
Who lurks in the darkness we fear"

© 2000-2014 Mezco

Living Dead Dolls 20

2014-11-11T07:29:00.001-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dollls
Series Exclusive
Killbabay

"Nobody cares just how Killbaby died,
For all they know, the coroner lied.
Now she runs free-carving, and killing,
Loving every ounce of blood she's spilling."

Killbaby© 2000-2014 Mezco

Living Dead Dolls 19

2014-11-11T05:51:00.000-08:00

Living Dead Dolls 18

2014-11-11T05:49:00.002-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series 16
Isabel

""Do I really need these disgusting eyes?"
Isabel cried.
"I am much prettier wearing this disguise,"
Isabel sighed.
And with the sharp end of a stick
Isabel pried,
And with one last bloody flick
Isabel died"

Isabel © 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz

Living Dead Dolls 17

2014-11-11T05:47:00.001-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series 19
Claret Winter

"Laid to rest after bitten by the beast
at the dawn of the new year she arose to feast"

Claret Winter © 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz

Living Dead Dolls 16

2014-11-11T05:46:00.000-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series 5
Siren

"Name of Deceased - Siren
Last Occupation - Vocalist
Cause of Death - Strangulation"

Siren © 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz

Living Dead Dolls 15

2014-11-11T05:41:00.001-08:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series 28
Hayze

Oh boy, I finally get to post them here in my blog.

Hayze © 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz

Living Dead Dolls 14

2014-10-14T06:52:00.000-07:00

30 days of Living Dead Dolls
Series 19
Agana

"In life she was thought to die from hemophilia
Back when "Christmas disease" was the name.
Her town doomed to mass hysteria
With winter came Agana, to drink somes lives away."

Agana © 2000-2014 Mezco Toyz