Lemmy

From my moleskine, drawed almost two years ago, but I preferred not to share at that time, here there is a portrait of Lemmy Kilmister, in crayons and pantone.

Whale - Underwater

Maybe someone of you remembers that I took part in the latest Inktober. One of my favourite doodle was the whale I draw fro the word Underwater, so I decided to upgrade it to an illustration level.

Here there is my revisited  undewater whale:

Merry Christmas with Saru

In one of the Facebook group I'm a part of, they organized the Secret Stanta. The idea was to re-draw an orignal character created by another member and to give it to him/her as a Christmas gift.

The fate gave me the chance of drawing Saru, the robotic macaco born from the pencil of Andrea Milana:

Happy Holidays to everyone!

Sketching in front of telly

Some days ago on TV... can you guess the movie?

Jaime the pirate

Pencil sketch inspired by a pic of my facebook friend and incredible artist Jamie. Sooner or later I'll make an illustration of it.

And if your are about to ask, no, he wasn't dressed as a pirate in the original pic.

Alfa

Possibily in the next days I'll be a bit busy, but I'll try to update the blog regularly all the same.

Here there is what I'm currently working on: the number  of Alfa, a superhero comics by Rodney Laibahas for South East Comics, a new publisher launching next year. Check out their instagam here.

Here a hint of page 03.

Memories from a recording studio

That boooooring moment when your better half is attending post production of his drum track with the sound engeneer and you only have a notebook a pencil and a couch to crash on.

Random girl student

While familiarizing with my new envitonment, I occasionally wander around totally random. Some days ago, I bumped in a group of pupils from a private school and for a moment it was like beeing surrounded by Slytherin students form a Harry Potter book. 

Later, I sketched one of the girls I saw, and then painted it in digital. Given that currently I don't have a proper scanner, I had to work on a pic, but I'm quite happy with the result all the same.

Here there are the two versions, enjoy!

The Living

As anticipated in this post, lately I worked on a range of illustrations for a zombie RPG that does not mean that RPG is a living dead RPG, but that it's a RPG about living deads and survivors of a zombie apocalypse.
For those who doesn't know, RPG means Role Playing Game and it's that kind of a game in which a story teller tettls a story where the players have to fullfill the role of the chosen character, the success or insucces of every action is due on the result of a die roll.
Dale Easterling created this game with a D20 system, that means that you only need 2 twenty-sided dice and all your fantasy to create your survivor or living-dead character and play.

If you are interested The Living is on sale here where you cane see also a preview with a couple of illustrations of mine.

Here two illustrations to give you the idea of what I'm speaking about:

Phlox

From the time vortex of the last year, here there is a tribute to the sci-fi graphic novel Phlox, published morse or less one year ago in Italy by Shockdom. It's a pretty good space and love adventure illustrated by Vanessa Cardinali and written by Antonio Silvestri. If you can read in italian it's highly recomended, and you can buy it here.

Here my tribute:

Little dragon

Just a random illustration made in a flu day. 

Il Vulcano

Last week I was invited to participate with an illustration of mine at the page Racconti Crestati that is a blog where the writer Riccardo Boccardi shares his very short stories (no more than 500 characters long).
The short stories are in Italian but, whatever language you speak, you are very welcome to  take a look to the blog's gallery where I'm featured among very very good illustrators.

Pulpos

The other day I was at the Aquarium for a visit, and sort of became friend of these little guys.

Pencil pages from La Montagne d'Ambre

In nostalgic mood today... proper time to share some old page in pencil version from La Montaigne d'Ambre: my most beloved unpublished work.

What are monsieur Les Rennes and Joel speaking about? Probably we'll never know.

Prehistoric environment

... and this should be the village where Omi's tribe lives

Omi the Brave

Character design from the main character of an old project settend in stone age.

La Montagne d'Ambre sample pages

How long is that I don't share some pages? 

Quite a lot I guess. Here some samples from the last version of La Montagne d'Ambre, incindentally, the double one is my favorite page.

As usual the inking was made by the wonderful Sara Cappoli.

New characters sketch

Randomly working on possibly new characters: a lor of new stories in my mind, but lack of focus... we'll see what happens.

Selfportrait, again

Well, I keep on getting older, don't I?

Speaking about old characters...

I know, he looks a lot like Mr.K. but it's not my fault if I love to draw this kind of face.

Doc Al Fraser keeps on jumping in my mind from time to time, I guess it's simply that I don't give up the fact that The Amber Mountain, the project setted in Madagascar, will not be published.

The Living

I'm finally allowed to share what I'm currently working on: The Living is a RPG game based on a D20 system that is setted in a zombie postapocalypse environment. 

Here a taste of the illustrations in the book that will be available soon.

 If you like, please visit the facebook page and 'like' it.

Re-designing old characters: Mr.K

I'm thinking to re-edit the old project Le secret de l'Horloge, this could be a good option for Mr.K (you can see the previous version here, scrolling to the last character).

Disclaimer, someone suggested me a couple of new names for Mr.K.: Gonzalo Patadepalo or Lalo Patapalo, given that I'm not going to use those names for this character, I'm thinking to recycle them to a new one... stay tuned.

In the meanwhile, please, let me know if you like this new version of Mr.K.

Anathema Device

From the novel written by Terry Pratchett e Neil Gaiman, mi idea of how should Anathema Device look like.

ROTTENTOWN - Victims of Nothing Cover Art

It's not a mystery how much I do love heavy metal music; so, when Rottentown hired me for the cover artwork of their upcoming EP, I couldn't be more happy and proud. 

Rottentown are a very good Spanish classic metal band, and, if interested, you can listen to their former EP + 1 song from the upcoming one, on their youtube page.

Part of my artwork was released some days ago and you can see it here, the other two parts of the illustration are still top secret at the moment:

By the way the artwork has been printed on t-shirts (weared by the front woman Audrey Lutwidge), if interested you can support the band and buy some merch mailing at rottentownband@gmail.com

Fedzeppelin is back + inktober highlights

Hello everybody, if anyone is still here.

Finally, after I don't even know how many months that look like centuries, I'm back on these pages with lots of updates. Skipping over my private life (or, making the things short, I'm living in a new house, in a new town, in a new country... but same continent) lately I decided to challenge myself to overcome my aversion for all the inking thing and partecipated at the latest inktober. 

I'm really satisfied about improving my inking skills not to mention the fact that I didn't give up after a few days as I prevented.
 

Publishing here all the 31 illustration would be a bit too much, so I selected some sample, choosing among my favorites artwork for this month. 

Enjoy, and if you like to see my whole inktober2017 series you can take a look at my instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fedzeppelin/