About Time!

After a solid 4.5 year hiatus on this blog, I am once again resurrecting it!  My website has just gone through its third re-versioning, and I am almost happy with it.

I have been running non-stop!!!

It's been a madhouse recently. I finally landed a decent job at a local frameshop and while it's not great, it at least it involves art somehow!! ( Not to mention, I've learned some wicked cool framing tricks!!) I've also started teaching classes on Sequential Art over at my local comic shop. So thats starting to take up time. Luckily, I enjoy teaching, so teaching comics is twice as sweet. Maybe if things go well with that I'll be able to teach full-time. ^.^

Also, I updated my site with a whole new look!!! Now you can see my comics (finished and works-in-progress ) as well as my Graphic Design work. I hope you like them.

~Ronald La Belle

O.O

Sorry no updates lately. Paying the bills seems to be getting in the way of my art for the moment. >.< Anyway, the new site has been updated, although it's still a work-in-progress. I hope to have an excerpt from my latest manga effort uploaded soon. We'll just have to wait and see ...

~Ronald La Belle

It's ALIIIIIIVE!!!!!

Yeah I know it's Cliche, but why not!!! Well my website is now up and funcitional!! (More of Less!!) Check it out!! http://www.ronaldlabelle.com/

Website Pending

Believe it or not, I FINALLY got around to acquiring some domain names!!! As soon as I find a host that I am happy with I will upload a nice shiny new website. OOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAHHHH Hopefully it will be a better environment for my artwork. We'll just have to wait and see. ~Ronald La Belle

Dragon VS Mantis

ha HA Long time no post!! Well I finally landed a 9to5 job ... 9.9 so that means a little more money and A LOT less art. At least I managed this months sequential challenge over on Antarctic Press' forums. ^_^ This month was a standard martial arts duel between two characters. I hope you enjoy. ~Ronald La Belle

Paladin OVA - DVD Cover

I was inspired by Kurosawa and the whole Samurai genre when making this DVD cover. Alas, the dot-screening didn't survive the shrinking process. (it looks great in print!!) This is a fictional Anime that I made up for a Senior Project in Graphic Design and it was a great chance to experiment with Kanji!! Enjoy! ~

Heavy Metal Paladin - Sketch

Riding that wave of Heavy Metal comes my next entry ... This is the sketch for my Paladin DVD Cover (mockup). Don't ask me why I think a Heavy Metal Rocker would make a great paladin ... he just would!!!!! Enjoy!! ~ Ronald La Belle

Space Hardware

Ha HAAA!!! The 1980's!!! Sure I was only 5, but I must have been saturated with all of that Heavy Metal, CyberPunk, Post-Apocalyptic, and Science-Fiction goodness!!! ^.^ So this is my ode to 80's era Spare Hardware ... more or less inspired by a very quirky book that I found as a child, buried in a corner of the Library. Ah yes, this was back when no-one gave a whoot HOW the things worked and just made 'em huge and cool. Don't get me wrong, I do love Hard Sci-Fi, but part of me never gets tired of the caution-to-the-wind, loose-science, Pulp Sci-Fi. You know ... BattleStar Galactica (ok, 70s), Original Dirty Pair, Bubblegum Crisis 2032, Blade Runner, etc. Awesome stuff!!! Well, Enjoy my painting ... I'm sure there's more of this to come!! - Departure by Ronald La Belle

Vault Door #1

Another Oil Painting, this time of an Apocalyptic Wasteland Desert! I call it VaultDoor #1, since this is my first painting of a vault and I feel more "VaultDoors" lurking in my head somewhere!! ^.^ I've always like the Idea of Bunker/Vaults ... they're so similar to dungeons, tombs, and caves and yet they retain a futuristic, post-modern feel that is unique. That makes them great places for the adventerous and foolhardy main characters of a thousand stories!!! Enjoy!! ~ VaultDoor #1 by Ronald La Belle

Fantasy Landscape

This is one of my oil paintings that I created using techniques I learned Pleine Aire painting in Palo Duro Canyon. Enjoy!! ~ Untitled Fantasy by Ronald La Belle

My non-manga work is fairly extensive, and I feel it would be a shame not to include it here!! So I plan on posting more traditional oil-paintings, cover - designs, etc. so that I can present a more complete image of my abilities. ^_^ Stay Tuned!!!! ~ Ronald La Belle 

T-Shirt Competition Entry

This was my submission to Akon 16's Annual T-Shirt Contest. I'm disappointed that it didn't win, but you can't win 'em all. -_- I will probably strip the A-Kon reference out of the background, and rebuild the image into something else. I hope you enjoy it!! ~ Ronald La Belle