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Sergio Sandoval
Sergio Sandoval
Concept artist and Comic book artist
Barcelona, Spain

Summary

I made my debut in the early 1990s drawing comic-books and covers for Comics Forum (Spain).
Nowadays, I combine my work in comics with concept artist for the film world. I have collaborated with Guillermo del Toro on several major films: The Devil’s Backbone, Hellboy, Hellboy II: Golden Army and Pan’s Labyrinth.
I have also worked for top-level international publishers on both sides of the Atlantic: DC Comics ( Red Hood and the outlaws, Deus Ex limited series, Superman: DCUO Legends, Batman: Legends of The Dark Knight digital, Uncharted limited series, Arrow (digital) and others), Random House Mondadori ( Ranko Kameran ), Madefire ( MONO: Pacific ), Planeta DeAgostini ( Thännhauser limited series ) and Panini Comics ( Alma Cubrae ).
In 2019 I worked for Amazon / Sony as a Concept Artist, on a Fantasy series for their Streaming platform. From 2020 to 2021 I worked as Senior Concept Artist for SledgeHammer/Activision and towards the end of 2021 for Sony Pictures on a new movie.
Currently, I live in Barcelona and I’m working on new exciting projects.

Skills

Concept ArtConcept DesignEnvironment DesignStoryboardingProp DesignCreature DesignComic Art

Software proficiency

CLIP STUDIO PAINT
CLIP STUDIO PAINT
Photoshop
Photoshop
Manga Studio
Manga Studio

Productions

    • Movie
      Xp 3D
    • Year
      2011
    • Role
      Concept artist
    • Company
      DDT sfx.
    • Movie
      Hellboy II: The golden army
    • Year
      2008
    • Role
      Concept artist
    • Company
      DDT sfx.
    • Movie
      Return to House on Haunted Hill
    • Year
      2007
    • Role
      Concept artist
    • Company
      DDT sfx.
    • Movie
      Pan's Labyrinth
    • Year
      2006
    • Role
      Concept artist
    • Company
      DDT sfx.
    • Movie
      Fragile
    • Year
      2005
    • Role
      Concept artist
    • Company
      DDT sfx.
    • Movie
      Doom
    • Year
      2005
    • Role
      Concept artist
    • Company
      DDT sfx.
    • Movie
      Hellboy
    • Year
      2004
    • Role
      Concept artist
    • Company
      DDT sfx.
    • Movie
      Arachnid
    • Year
      2004
    • Role
      Concept artist
    • Company
      DDT sfx.
    • Movie
      Romasanta
    • Year
      2004
    • Role
      Concept artist and storyboard artist
    • Company
      DDT sfx.
    • Movie
      Second name
    • Year
      2002
    • Role
      Concept artist
    • Company
      DDT sfx.
    • Movie
      The Devil's Backbone
    • Year
      2001
    • Role
      Concept artist
    • Company
      DDT sfx.
    • Movie
      Dagon
    • Year
      2001
    • Role
      Concept artist
    • Company
      DDT sfx.
    • Movie
      La mujer mas fea del mundo
    • Year
      1999
    • Role
      Concept artist
    • Company
      DDT sfx.

Experience

  • Red Hood and the Outlaws (Volume 2) #18 at DC Comics
    Barcelona, Spain
    March 2018 - May 2018

    I had a lot of fun working on this issue of Red Hood with my friend Juan Albarran on the inks. He did a great job leaving my pencils with a wonderful finish.

    As a curiosity, my girlfriend, Diana Egea (concept artist) supervised all my Pup Pup drawings, because I was unable to make it funny.

  • Neil Cowley Trio / Spacebound Apes at Music Sales Group / Chester Music
    Barcelona, Spain
    March 2016 - May 2016

    Spacebound Apes is an illustration project I was commissioned by the record company and publisher Music Sales (now Hal Leonard Europe) to illustrate the music book that would accompany the new Neil Cowley Trio album. A wonderful experience accompanied by Mado Peña in charge of its color.

  • Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Four Annual #1 at DC Comics
    Barcelona, Spain
    January 2016 - February 2016

    I returned to the inks with Bruno Redondo at the pencils.

  • Artbook #11, Sergio Sandoval at Ominiky Ediciones
    Barcelona, Spain
    May 2015 - May 2015

    My first professional Artbook published by a great publisher!

    I will always be grateful to Oscar Martin (drawing monster, Editor and good friend) for giving me the opportunity to publish my work under his label.

  • Alma Cubrae #1 at Panini comics / Evolution comics
    Barcelona, Spain
    April 2014 - January 2017

    Alma Cubrae is my third work with Gonzalo Torné and one of the most complicated I have faced. This comic is based on the universe of Alma Cubrae (A company of medieval shows) The brothers Jordi and Angel Portella (founders of Alma Cubrae and great friends of mine) financed with great difficulty the cost of the pages, but the printing and distribution was made by Panini Comics under the Evolution label.

    Due to its great difficulty and the low cost of its financing, it is a discontinuous work that will be published as I can work on it.

  • Mono: Pacific. Motion book #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 at Madefire
    Barcelona, Spain
    January 2015 - September 2016

    This was my first animated comic I did for Madefire. I had to put a lot of effort and attention in the narrative aspects and in the shots that had to be animated. I was given great freedom to choose which elements I wanted to move to express the scenes in the best way and I have to say it was a great experience.

  • Legends of the Dark Knight #8 at DC Comics
    Barcelona, Spain
    April 2013 - June 2013

    It wasn't the first time I drew Batman in DC comics, but it was the first time I did a complete self-resolving story drawn and inked entirely by me. I can't describe the happiness, the emotion and the TERROR I felt when I faced this opportunity.

  • Arrow Vol.1 #1 #2 #3 #5 #6 #8 #10 at DC Comics
    Barcelona, Spain
    January 2013 - January 2013

    I discovered what it was like to work on a regular series and all the pressure that comes with it. I'm proud to have worked on Arrow and everything I learned doing it.

  • Uncharted #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 (Volume 1) at DC Comics
    Barcelona, Spain
    January 2012 - June 2012

    For the second time I was lucky enough to be able to draw a character I am a big fan of! Nathan Drake! I worked on Uncharted with my friends and colleagues Santi Casas, David López (colorists from Ikai studio) and Pol Cunyat (inks).

  • DC Universe Online Legends #10 at DC Comics
    Barcelona, Spain
    May 2011 - June 2011

    My first Superman! I really enjoyed drawing my second favorite character... the first one is from Marvel XD

  • Justice League Subway at DC Comics
    Barcelona, Spain
    February 2011 - February 2011

    Justice League Subway is a strange promotional project released in 2011. It mixed the concepts of superheroes (the Justice League) with American sports figures and the promotional object of Subway sandwiches.

    I did this fun work together with my great friend Santi Casas, who accompanied me with an incredible work in the inks.

  • Deus-Ex: Human Revolution #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 at DC Comics
    Barcelona, Spain
    January 2011 - June 2011

    Deus Ex: Human Revolution, was my first job as a pencil and ink artist for DC Comics. I worked with Ben Abernathy (publisher) to whom I will always be grateful for this opportunity.

  • Gear School #2 at Dark Horse
    Barcelona, Spain
    July 2010 - September 2010

    Round two! More robots!

    I worked at Gear School with Nuria Peris while working at Studio Fénix. It was a very fun job to do in which I was in charge of all the inks and the design and finishing of the Mechas.

  • Human Target #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 at DC Comics
    Barcelona, Spain
    February 2010 - August 2010

    My first work as Bruno Redondo's inker published in DC Comics. It was my entrance to DC Comics and a great moment in my career as an artist.

  • Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Ojos azules / Blue eyes at Seix Barral / Únicos
    Barcelona, Spain
    January 2009 - January 2009

    It was a great honor to work on this short story by Pérez-Reverte for Estudio Fénix.

  • Ranko Kameran at Random House / Reservoir Books
    Barcelona, Spain
    February 2008 - January 2011

    Ranko Kameran was my second work with Gonzalo Torné and one of the most personal and interesting works I have done to date.

    It was a work that I had to do between other jobs and it was very long and complicated to finish.

  • Gear School #1 at Dark Horse
    Barcelona, Spain
    August 2007 - October 2007

    I worked at Gear School with Nuria Peris while working at Estudio Fénix. It was a very fun job to do in which I was in charge of all the inks and the design and finishing of the Mechas.

  • Narraciones de mitos clásicos, Las Metamorfosis de Ovidio / Ovid's Metamorphoses. at Editorial Teide S.A. / Biblioteca Teide
    Barcelona
    May 2007 - July 2007

    Illustrated adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

    Art made as a team with Nuria Peris.

  • Las bicicletas son para el verano, Fernando Fernán Gómez / Bicycles are for the summer. at Editorial Teide S.A. / Biblioteca Teide
    Barcelona, Spain
    January 2006 - March 2006

    It was a great honor to be in charge of illustrating this work. The color was done by Nuria Peris.

    "Bicycles are for summer" is one of the most emblematic titles of Fernando Fernán Gómez's work. This play, in which the author recreates a fundamental stage of his life, is an excellent opportunity to learn about the effects of the Spanish Civil War on the life of a family and its neighbors from the everyday life, at the same time as it reminds us of the capacity of human beings to adapt to any situation.

  • Las aventuras de Ulises / The Adventures of Ulysses / Homero at Editorial Teide S.A. / Biblioteca Teide
    Barcelona, Spain
    September 2005 - October 2005

    Illustrated adaptation of Homer's The Adventures of Ulysses.

    Pencil drawing made half by Nuria Peris and me.

  • Como dibujar monstruos / How to draw monsters. at Martinez Roca
    Barcelona, Spain
    September 1999 - December 1999

    I made different works while I was hired at Estudio Fénix. For them I made this book on how to draw monsters.

  • Cómo dibujar manga / How to draw Manga. at Martinez Roca
    Barcelona, Spain
    February 1998 - April 1998

    I collaborated in some chapters of this didactic book made by Estudio Fénix together with Nuria Peris and other great authors.

  • Tannhauser #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 at Comics Forum / Planeta DeAgostini / Linea Laberinto
    Barcelona, Spain
    April 1997 - January 1998

    Tannhauser is my first professional comic published with my great friends and colleagues Gonzalo Torné (writer) and Joan Baranguer (inker). It was originally supported by Sergi Gras, but finally it was published by our editor Antoni Guiral.

    The project was originally created with Santiago Navarro (may he rest in peace) and had a long and hard journey until its publication in 1998.

    It is my first work and the one I am most proud of.