Pinocchio book project

There was a contest for the illustration of Pinocchio book, for children.

I couldn't participate, for personal reasons, but however I took as inspiration for myself, so I realized this book cover with Pinocchio going away with the Fox and the Cat, and two black and white illustrations for the inner pages, one in which Pinocchio and Lucifero turns into donkeys, the other when Pinocchio finds his 'father'. 

Inktober 2016

For the first time, this year I tried to participate to the Inktober challenge.
Unfortunately, as expected , I didn't complete the 31 days (work, laiziness, etc..), but at least I was able to produce something (sob). Next year I will committ more to it.
Fortunately, I had also the drawlloween theme for inspiration.

you can find each design on my deviantart page

Life drawing lessons

After years of unrevealed and suffered desire, some months ago I made a present to myself: a real drawing course! (no online tutorials, no learning by your own: a real live course, finally XD).
The topic of the course was dynamic drawing of the human figure, a milestone for the drawing field. We had the possibility of practising with models for real nude drawing lessons.
First of all, we had to learn how to see the reality made of simple geometric structures, starting from common objets (books etc) and then the human face (trying to see it as a geometrical shape, in order to place its constituents like eyes, nose and ears).

The successive step was applying this concept to the entire human body, representing it as an assembling of cylinders and circles. Then, with this base as a first sketch, trying to add a softer and more human shape, with fast poses.sessions (5-15 minutes).

After this, first attempts to add also some shading were made, with longer poses (15-30 minutes), but then still practing with fast and gesture drawing.

Once supposed we had learnt how to master the human structure, the final work was assigned: starting from real and famous paintings representing complex poses, we had to redraw the scene keeping the pose, but seen from a different angulation. For this purpose, masterpieces of someone huge as Caravaggio were chosen as references (easy, no?). I tried my best, hope the result can be appreciated for the effort ^_^

I really enjoyed attending this course, held by the international comic author Saverio Tenuta, and hosted by Arts in Rome.

John Silver / Black Sails - GIF

GIF of the creation process of John Silver digital drawing.

Cage and the Bird Fan Art - Contest

Scene taken from the really nice steampunk novel Cage and the Bird from NinaWolverina, realized for a contest she holds on deviantart.
Have a read to her novel!

Long John Silver - Black Sails

Suzanne Woolcott Fan Arts

This last one is me in Suzanne Woolcott style.. ^^