Big rock candy mountain

That's what I'm drawing while I'm in low calories regime with almost no carbs in my life :'(

Chibi mermaid

Again... speaking of goldfish, a chibi version of a mermaid.

MerMay 12 and 13

Keeping on without being able to be up at the day

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

I'm trying to add some new arts at my portfolio for kids and, in the meanwhile, to improve my collage style, so here there is a sort of re-draw (more properly a reinterpretation) of a very old illustration I made back in 2011 (you can see it here).

As you can guess from the title of the post, the idea is a tribute to a Beatles' song.

NO!

O vagalume

Finally in my spare time I did this: "good night! I'm the firefly" it's saying.

Jumping little lamb

I'm definitely falling in love with this patchwork thing.

If you like it, you can purchase some items with this little guy on, at my society6 shop here

Os Mouchos

I keep on learning Galician language with all my efforts. Here there are the owls (or os mouchos if you prefer)

If you like it, you can purchase some items with these little guys on, at my society6 shop here

O raposo

Trying to learn the language of my new home Galicia.
O raposo is the fox.

If you like it, you can purchase some items with this little guy on, at my society6 shop here

Sketching in front of telly

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

Little dragon

Just a random illustration made in a flu day. 

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.

A tribute to Vanessa Cardinali's Thunder Ben

Some days ago, in Italy, Bao Publishing published "Thunder Ben", a graphic novel all written and illustrated by Vanessa Cardinali.

As you can see, she is a very good comic-artist, so, if you can read in Italian, you are strongly advised to buy and read it.

By the way, she is also a dear friend of mine and, at the moment, she is collecting some tributes done by friends and collegues. So this is my Thunder Ben tribute, you can see the others here

Skin tone exercise 2

In Italy it's very hot in this week, so I decided to take a day off from the project, but, since there is no rest for the wicked, I did some graphic art all the same.
Here there is another skin tone exercise.
This time I focused on a different skin tone in the moonlight.

Skin tone exercise

Lately I am not posting very often, I am sorry, but I have a lot of pages to draw and not time enought to make some complete illustration for the blog.

But today I was very tired of grey scale drawing and I took a day off to do some exercise with colours.
In the last few days I had the fortune to have some pieces of advices by Sara Spano, who is, in my humble opinion, one of the best Italian illustrators (take a look to her portfolio, you will not regret), so I spent my day studing and doing exercises.

This is the result: the exercise was about the light effect on the skin, so all the rest it's a bit rough but I hope you will enjoy all the same. And, to keep an eye always on my project, the character I choose to draw is Marie.

And, for whom is wondering about this, yes I suppose I will be computer screen tanned at the end of summer!

Villain time: Herr Moser WIP

As I promised some posts ago, it's time to introduce some villains in our story, so, here there is for you Herr Moser: the main villain in our project. His face, I am afraid, has been stolen from the face of a friend of mine and Sara, a  very big friend and very good comic artist too: Fabrizio 'Pluc' Di Nicola. It's his fault if we had found the strength and the fortitude to start working on this project, so we must reward him with an important role in our story (not to mention the fact he has the perfect Herr Moser look).

So, stop chatting. Here there is Herr Moser drawed and coloured by me and inked by Sara.

Now there is just a couple of character missing.

Pierre's shop WIP

Here there is another study for our project, this time it's up to the toys shop owned by Pierre and his "little" brother Zacharie. I'm not totally sure the illustration is plain, but you can see two rooms: the real shop and the laboratory where Zacharie, Pierre and Marie make their experiments with mechanical engineering.

This one too (as Marie's room) will be digital rough coloured but I don't know when.

Now it's time to come back to my pages. Next time it will be villain's time :)

Julien WIP

And here there is our main character: Julien.
Please note that this time Sara had to work even harder this time: she had to draw the legs I didn't draw too. As always a very very good job of my collegue :)

Sloth and snake

Just a quick test-sketch required by a potential contractor.

Fingers crossed ;)