Do the time warp

Here there is the "Do the time warp" challenge. I've been planning to draw it for a long time and finally I did it. So here there are my differtent selves from different years

NO!

A late happy new year to everyone

I'm not disappeared again, I'm just fighting a huge war against flu.
Here a image of how I celebrated the new year eve.

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.

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.

Selfportrait, again

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

Self portrait number 2

The second self protrait I ever made:

Orphaned Land

The second fan art of my entire life. This time it's up to Orphaned Land a oriental metal band from Israel. More info here.

Al

I go on with my "jungle series" of portraits.

This time it's up to Al.
More info will come soon.

Joel

Here there is a portrait of a character of us. Sara and I hope to have the possibility to introduce him and his friends to you very soon.

Stay drunk, stay pirate.

Ahoy mateys,
today it's the International Talk Like A Pirate Day (more info here).
Let's celebrate with a pint of rum and, of course a themed illustration.

Portrait of a younger self

Some days ago in a forum for illustrators someone had the idea of drawing ourself as if we were attending an high-school in US. So here there is a sort of self portrait of how I could be if I was at highschool now. 

I don't like to make selfportraits, well... I hate it! But sooner or later I have to get used to, so this is the first of a serie (I hope).

Note: I have some blue hair now, but I think my parents would have killed me if I had had it during high-school.

Digital colour experiment #1

Busy period again and I've been away from blogspot for a while. But sometime I manage to find the time to spring out again.

This time I tried a mix of techniques, this is the first attempt and I am quite satisfied with the result, but not enough satisfied to make a step by step post: let me refine the techniques and I'll provide you a proper explanation for every step.

Since I was mostly experimenting I had to look for a not too elaborate draw to work with, so I picked up the old sketch for a character you still don't know, but I hope I'll introduce you very soon: in these months things are going on and I hope to share with you some good news soon (fingers crossed).

In the meanwhile here there is my little experiment.

She is a pirate!

A very quick sketch done for a friend during a hard work night.
The woman in the portrait is Marika, she is a wonderful friend, a very good illustrator (you can see here her artworks) and well... a pirate! She has been my inspiration for my original chatacter Marie too.

Greyscale VS Full Colour

Some days ago I was practicing with digital colour, so I tryed some new tecnics: I worked on this portrait in greyscale and then added the colours. I'm not still completely satisfied with the final results but it's a first attempt, so I supposte it's ok.
By the way, which one do you prefer? The Grayscale or the Full Colour version?

About to explode - finished

As I promised to Four Eyed Monster, here there is the painted version of the yesterday's sketch.



Reference: http://news.distractify.com/people/powerful-photos-of-women/?v=1 photo number 51

About to explode - WIP

A quick sketch just to keep on training, here there is Marie intervening against an abrupt pressure increasing in a steam-machine. I strongly hope she will succeed and survive since we need her for our project.

Sooner or later I will paint this sketch too, even if I am aware I am amassing a huge pile of to-be-painted sketches.

Reference: http://news.distractify.com/people/powerful-photos-of-women/?v=1 photo number 51

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!

Lady in green and red

During last weeks I have done some studies on characters for one project I am working on, I was not very satisfied on this one that didn't fit very much with the idea I had, so I rejected it from the project but I coloured it all the same and here there is: