The Faun Moleskine XIII

Un altro Fauno

I woke up this morning with nostalgia of my journey in Tuscany,
I miss, of course, the food...the wines ... and all those flavours whom give to this country its peaceful way of life.

a Faun for Litte Eva.

She's the Princess of the Cherry blossom's Time.
Gabriel and little Eva share the same birthdate.
Happy Birthday Little Princess!.

Quick Faun Sketch in action

Some Old Poetic Fauns

Oda a la Alegria

Alegría, Luz Divina,
del Elíseo dulce lar,
inflamados alleguemos
Diosa, a tu celeste altar.
Une otra vez tu hechízo
a quienes separó el rigor.
Fraterniza el orbe entero
de tus alas al calor.
Coro
A quien el azar ha dado
verdadera amistad,
quien consorte dulce halla,
ha sin par felicidad.
En la redondez terrena
suya un alma invocar!
A quien no le fuera dado

sumiríase en pesar!

Coro
En el seno de Natura
alegría liba el ser,
su florida vía siguen
males, bienes, por doquier.
Besos, vides, fiel amigo
hasta el morir nos dio;
el deleite, a los gusanos;
y al querube, un gran Dios.
Cual los soles en su vía
magna, juntos! oh! marchad!
y como héroes disfrutad
dicha, triunfos y felicidad!
Abrazaos, oh! millones!
Beso de la Humanidad!
Brinda celestial bondad
Padre a tu séquito sin par
Os postráis, oh! juntos
Ante el Creador Eterno
Busca en el azur, y reina
Sobre el plano etéreo.

*** Schiller***

牧羊神・ガブリエル

the Unpleasant Shadow . El Fauno y la Sombra

Full Moon and Fairies

一番

Watercolor Sketches

I

From the forests and highlands
We come, we come;
From the river-girt islands,
Where loud waves are dumb
Listening to my sweet pipings.
The wind in the reeds and the rushes,
The bees on the bells of thyme,
The birds on the myrtle bushes,
The cicale above in the lime,
And the lizards below in the grass,
Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was,
Listening to my sweet pipings.

II

Liquid Peneus was flowing,
And all dark Tempe lay
In Pelion's shadow, outgrowing
The light of the dying day,
Speeded by my sweet pipings.
The Sileni, and the Sylvans, and the Fauns,
And the nymphs of the woods and the waves,
To the edge of the moist river-lawns,
And all that did then attend and follow,
Were silent with love, as you now, Apollo,
With envy of my sweet pipings.

III

I sang of the dancings stars,
I sang of the daedal Earth,
And of Heaven -- and the giant wars,
And Love, and Death, and Birth, --
And then I changed my pipings, --
Singing how down the vale of Maenalus
I pursued a maiden and clasped a reed.
Gods and men, we are all deluded thus!
It breaks in our bosom and then we bleed:
All wept, as I think both ye now would,
If envy or rage had not frozen your blood,
At the sorrow of my sweet pipings.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley--

The faun last 2007

2008 will be better than 2007

easy midwinter night dream.

アレナス

The Faun Moleskine XII

I'm happy that this year 2007 comes to an end. Time for some rest and some family life.
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Llanes -Man Arenas - the Faun Gabriel

the faun recut comicpage

ファウヌス ガブリエルの漫画

the Faun Gabriel & the afternoon wind

An Afternoon in the Season of the Winds, Little cotton clouds gliding through the Sky. Enjoy the slow play of shadows and light, And in the grass, all the existing greens.
Man Arenas Watercolor made in Asturias, Nothern Spain.
El Fauno Gabriel en La Borbolla, Llanes, Asturias

The Faun Moleskine XI

By the Holy greenlands of Asturias, The faun Gabriel in holidays. Illustrated by Man Arenas.
More sketched ideas for some future
short episodes of the Faun Gabriel.

The Faun Moleskine X and Oldies

a first comic page, in which story the little faun Gabriel is not appearing, but, story in which others fauns, nymphs and fairies are lead by their King: the Mighty Oberon.
Man Arenas Oberon

The Faun Moleskine IX

Dodecaden, Man Arenas, Gabriel de Faun

The Faun Moleskine VIII

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This month, Noah Klocek selected myblog for the THINKING BLOG AWARD . I should then past this honor to 5 favourite places of my own
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Week after Week the following blogs
are essential places to visit.

1)By the beauty sides of our world :
by Noah Klocek
2)The French touch on an inked line:
by Thierry Martin
3) the true nature of a travelling sketch:
by Enrico Casarosa
4) MasterClass on Character designs:
by Harald Siepermann
5) my main source of inspiration in italian:
by Claudio Acciari
dodecaden Man Arenas Gabriel Faune

Nice Gift from Alex Lopez

New generation spanish comicbook master, Alex Lopez
did this soft beautiful piece of art in tribute to my little Faun Gabriel. Check out his BLOG full of surprises.His version of Gabriel head is really cute.
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you can also find more fan artwork HERE

the Cypress Pass

Nice Gift from Noah Klocek

the other day, opening my mail box, I found this very nice surprise from California. NOAH KLOCEK catched so nicely the atmosphere of the Faun world with this beautiful picture. I was particularly moved by what the light and the tremendous sense of peace this image tells. Have a look in Noah's Blog to see how skilled the artist is.
His colorful work on landscapes and on light moods proves his talent for Cinematography in our animation industry.

SketchCrawl/Maverix Benefit Art Auction

Sho Murase from Maverix studios invited me to participate in the upcoming Enrico Casarosa's Sketchcrawl Fundraiser for EMERGENCY on May 19th and 2oth .
I decide to contribute to this just cause with a donation for the SketchCrawl-Maverix Benefit Art Auction. This event will take place sunday may 20th in partnership with the great animation folks at MAVERIX Studios (1717 17th street San Francisco)


















> the original for the auction. (The faun Gabriel and the blue swallows, 24x30 cm, pencil & watercolors on Montval watercolor paper laminated on cardboard, signed Man Arenas)

HOW TO PARTICIPATE ? by Enrico Casarosa
HOW TO PARTICIPATE ? by Ronnie del Carmen.
Join the 14th world wild Sketchcrawl.
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Una vez mas, Gracias y Gracias SHO...eres un Sol.

The Faun Moleskine VII

The Faun Moleskine VI

UPON a time, before the faery broods
Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods,
Before King Oberon’s bright diadem,
Sceptre, and mantle, clasp’d with dewy gem,
Frighted away the Dryads and the Fauns 5
From rushes green, and brakes, and cowslip’d lawns,
The ever-smitten Hermes empty left
His golden throne, bent warm on amorous theft:
From high Olympus had he stolen light,
On this side of Jove’s clouds, to escape the sight
Of his great summoner, and made retreat
Into a forest on the shores of Crete.
For somewhere in that sacred island dwelt
A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt;
At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured
Pearls, while on land they wither’d and adored.
Fast by the springs where she to bathe was wont,
And in those meads where sometime she might haunt,
Were strewn rich gifts, unknown to any Muse,
Though Fancy’s casket were unlock’d to choose.
Ah, what a world of love was at her feet!
So Hermes thought, and a celestial heat
Burnt from his winged heels to either ear,
That from a whiteness, as the lily clear,
Blush’d into roses ’mid his golden hair,
Fallen in jealous curls about his shoulders bare.

The Faun Moleskine V

Manuel Arenas le faune Gabriel faun

Watching the popular TV show contest Germany's next Topmodel
inspire me sometimes to draw nice nymphs. from the beginning on , my
favorite candidate is the stunning redhair beauty Barbara...

The Faun Gabriel ANIME * Render test

Man Arenas Dodecaden, Gabriel the Faun, inuendo in the legend

Testing some "Handwriting line style" 2D render on a 3D model

for the faun Gabriel. Long hours of work still ahead.