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Real
Name : Leonardo Vidal
Also Known as : Leo (short) , Lobo or Licantro...or
a mix with all that ¬¬. I do preffer "Leo".
Age: 27
What I Do: Artist / Graphics and Digital
Work / The website too ¬¬....
Email: licantro@gmail.com
Location: San Antonio, Chile.
Language: Native Spanish, and learning
English.
Brief
Bio: I was born in San Antonio , Chile and
raised in Santiago (the capital) until I got 15
years old. Then I back to my roots where all my
family is and where I'm now.
Since I was a child I used to draw from walls
, furnitures...till I meet the paper...^^. My
first memories of drawing where spaceships of
Star Wars...o_o, then I grew up with all the anime
shows that opened my mind and the way I could
see the whole world.
I
grew up with Astroboy, Robotech, Saint Seiya (and
the list it's too long...) along with videogmes...particularly
with Street Fighter...even the Mutant Turtles...anyway,
my likes were in search of manga and so I became
a fanatic... But I discovered the comics here
in my country were so few and so expensives to
get...that I got fustrated ...so I started making
my own stories when I was 12 years or something.
Before
the manga culture I was fascinated with mytical
creatures and horror type of movies... the years
of Jason and Freddy and others likes An american
Werewolf in Lond ..shocked me...and of course
sci-fi type of movies like Robocop, Terminator
, Superman, Back to the Future and such made of
me a fan of all that kind of things at same I
used to play a lot of videogames. So I began doing
some action comics for me... they sucked a lot!
XD
I
was drawing for real... doing fan arts as an special
hobby when I was 11 years old , I drew transformers
specially for my firends who liked them , monsters
(skulls, deamons, vampires...) as covers for rock
groups who never existed :P...or for all the class
parties.
With
19 years I met the internet (1997) and so my mind
was opened again...not too long till I meet a
community of art and friends who were doing draws
just like myself, promoting his skills and sharing
their drawings, so I began with the idea of making
a website... and at same time I met new comics
beign made in my country , I was shocked and I
did all I could to participate on it. There was
some poeple who were real good talents, and in
the process to have the oportunity to publish
I did some friends who are still with me. But
I couldn't publish, because of lies and "problems"
after 4 years of going and coming I just made
an small publish with a rough comic made in 1
week in a fanzine, instead of a magazine... I
never felt well. That comic was wrong printed
and was something I made a year beforewhen the
fanzine was released...that was not what I wanted
to do.
1998-
Out of school I started my first career :Graphic
Design. I was playing with my ideas and "Luna"
appeared in a paper (that time I called her "Lupina")...a
werewolf girl, with great "kame hame ha-
powers" and a black suit as an american super-hero....
big sucks!...but the character was some of my
likes, a woman and a werewolf: all in one. I went
back to the internet again when I got my first
personal pc at home XD in 1999.
In
the net I made more friends of my country who
were doing arts and draws too in an Anime Forum.
Some of them are now great ilustrators, animators,
designers or others are just the same nice guys
who I met with great arts and ideas. At same time
I saw in the web "were-art" stuff...anthropomorphic
art for others, tf art too.... "hey it's
like my idea of Luna" and I saw many influences
and good artists, so I decided to show myself
to the community arround ...I was known as "LeoLooney"...and
later "Lobo" or "Leo". As
"ISamu" in my country (I was a fan of
the Macross saga = ) or a mix of all of them.
And
no... I couldn't become an artist student, because
Chile isn't a place where you can live doing that,
and no I would never felt good to be a foreigner
guy looking for a job in a strange country. But
with Design I learned enoguh and I made some websites
and such in the past, with some friends we made
an anime group and we created a big communituy
of fans in my town... and I learned english in
the way and we even did a tv show...there are
some story there and here...but the time passed
doing all that and time to time I went back with
the werewolf-girl idea chaging the story and doing
more characters more than once. I made the comic
about 3 times before this...because I got tired,
my draw changed drastically in the process or
the story sucked...:P.
I started to work in 2001 in a Computer-Lab....where
I'm still working..."the life". Now
I dont know what life I have but I'm studying
for beign a Teacher of language with english studies..,
I just begun the last year...and so as an spine
...as dream that I had once "beign a comic
artist" my soul cried when I realized that
I was getting too old and there was a comic who
I wanted to do once... and I needed to do it.
This comic...no matter if it sound selfish, it's
for me, to prove to myself that I could. And of
course for the people who looked me as an artist
too. But I always will look to the art of me as
a hobby as my story, no more.
I
wont ever be a pro artist I know that, I never
decided to estudy art or ilustration because I
just liked to draw and that's all :P. This is
my hobby, something that you do with more passsion
because you do it for you, for express my emotions
through my characters, if I've show all my art
all this time it's for share some of my feelings,
that memory of my art-life I think will remain.
Meanwhile I hope you be with me, sharing ...the
journey of Luna and your fellow , Leonardo Vidal
F.
The
next of my story it's now...
LEO
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