Madagascar beach

I'm in a desperate need of a holyday.

Reference at https://www.instagram.com/p/BkH2Fknn6D9/?taken-by=madagascar_travel

Big rock candy mountain

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

Temple in the jungle

One night of insomnia with the only company of a documentary about Bali. This is the result:

Maybe I'll colour it.

Prehistoric environment

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

As I stare at the Ocean

I am in a bit of a confusion lately: I would like to try to make a graphic novel version of a book, but I can't choose the book: too many good plots in literature.

So, while I am trying to tidy up my mind, I share with you  the first part of the first page of a project I will not finish. But I am happy all the same: I have been able to paint water that is quite of a challenge to me.

Some sketches again

And here there are some sketches again. Characters will come soon, very soon, and pieces of information will come with them, but now it's still time for some background preparatory work.

Cretaceous landscape

While working at our dossier, I had some other jobs to take care of. 

Here there is a sample of what Fed has been doing during last months: that's a back-cloth for a life-size statue of a dinosaur and its nest that is exposed in the University Museum in my home town.
The task was pretty hard because I had to work on a file that would be printed on a 6X5 m canvas.

The picture portrays a landscape from Cretaceous with plants and trees, so I had to study a bit of paleonthology to be sure I portrait things that really existed in that period; it was hard but definitely interesting.
The whole illustration have been draw in pencil then digitalized and painted using adobe photoshop, now I'm looking forward to see it printed but I have to wait till December 10th: the roll-out day.

The witch's house completed - colours

I am back again, after a long long time. I am sorry, but I working on some projects (and hoping they will be realized) so I have not much free time.
Anyway, finally, here there is the final step of the wich's house.
I decided to use bright colours that could give a sort of autumn look to the pricture and pastel colours for the house.
Hope you enjoy:

The witch's house WIP 2 - Ink

And here there is the second step: I re-drawed the illustration with black ink using a bic pen and trying to obtain thicker lines on the objects in the foreground and thinner ones in the backgroud so that the illustration has more depht.

Next step the final one: colour!

The witch's house WIP 1 - Pencil

Since I am folling in love with the work in progress posts on the blogs of my mignature-paniter friends, I decided to do the same with an illustration I am working on.

This time it's up to the house of the witch from Hansel and Gretel's fairy tale.
She used to live in the wood in a house made of cakes, sweets, and so on; in this way she lured kids who she used to feed on.

So, here there is my cake-house in the wood; first step: pencil.

A house in the wood

Well, actually it's not a wood but a garden: the Japanese Garden in Tully, Ireland that is where, some years ago, I took the photo that inspired me for this illustration.

So the illustration is somehow Japanese and somehow Irish, I strongly hope that the Irish part is not prevalent and that it should look like a real Japanese landscape.

As usual: pencil, ink and digital colour.

Back clothes

Some times ago I made some test illustrations for an design studio. The purpose was to design some back clothes panels to decorate kids' bedrooms.

Here there are four of them including four different panoramas.

They were all painted in digital colours since the idea was to print them on I-don't-know-what material.

Anyway at the end of the day, the whole project was set aside.

Battlefield

It seems that today is Ragnarök: according the Norse mythology the world will end today in the final battle between gods.

So that should be the perfect day to share a picture of a battlefield painted with crayons and digital colours.

Enjoy.

In the meanwhile I go and fetch my axe.

I will be ready!