Set them free!

New year, no new resolutions. Don't need them since my old once are still there for me... drawing more, start new arty projects, try to do more watercolors, try to lear landscapes, etc, etc. I've so many resolutions that I don't need any for many years to come. But to start good I'm tidying my archive and I found many drawing of 2016 I haven't published ;)

Hello 2017, I'm getting ready!

Curves and glares

Other set of sketches done with quickposes. This time the exercise was set in poses of 90'' seconds with images from their "erotica archives". I find much more easy to draw female shapes, that gives me time to sketch both body and face... pour guys of the previous exercise... they were a bunch of no-face- man...

Squared

Some drawing I did in Varese during one of my "drawing recess weekend". We were copying some images from advertisement pages on fashion magazines. Always quite inspiring.

You can buy all you can see

 

One month ago I took part to a little exposition and those are the illustrations I've made during a couple hour of "live drawing". They were in sold (5$ each) and in theory the one with the bear on the bike have been booked by a friend... but it seems like she has completely forget about it. If you want any you are still in time to write me and get yours... you can pay me with a "cappuccino e brioche".

Ah,ah.

Also rocks have a perspective

I haven't done much more than nothing this month... but in the end I've something to update!
It's a work a friend asked me by commission for his indi magazine Crossover.
In a few weeks he will print a little booklet with a dozen illustration inspired by the Inferno of Dante Alighieri's "Divina Commedia". This is the one I've done inspired by those lines:

"Lo duca e io per quel cammino ascoso 

intrammo a ritornar nel chiaro mondo; 

e sanza cura aver d'alcun riposo,

salimmo sù, el primo e io secondo, 

tanto ch'i' vidi de le cose belle 

che porta 'l ciel, per un pertugio tondo.

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle."

Adventure in your own backyard

Today is a very special day, not only because I've finally decided to update a new drawing, but mostly because there's a specific reason if I've chose december 13th to do it.

This drawing have been loosely based on a friends of mine and today it's his birthday, so I hope he will read this post: "Bonne fête Mr. D!"

I've started to draw that picture when I was in Montréal (a long time ago) and it has take me several weeks to finish to color it... I was never satisfied and I've re-started the entire coloration three times... Still I'm not satisfied of the results, but it was time to end it.

There a link to a track from Patrick Watson that I love to listen when I think about MTL.

Burn after watching

I never post new drawings, guess why...! Those are part of my last illustration course in Montréal (Oh, Montréal I miss you soo much), they are supposed to be a kind of postcards with strange characters on them... or something like that. I've tried to let the outline rough and just put some colored spots with watercolors. Yo.

I miss me.

Granma is very ill, home is a mess, my parents are getting even more crazy than usual and all the people in this little seaside village are making me depressed (but that's the only really normal thing). Coming back home is a real pleasure (like it was to be expected). While studying my useless anthropology books (I wonder if I am still in a design class) I've found time to re-style and finish this drawing. It's a homage to some not-very-old happy times. Enjoy it for me, because at this moment I feel a bit like Eleanor Rigby and her f**** jar.

I saw a ghost on a sofa

The CCA (Canadian centre of architecture) is a strange building in the city center of Montreal with a odd history. The structure it's a real maze because it binds an old Victorian house with a big modern structure that contains a library and a theatre... but the strange thing is that everybody that work here is absolutely convinced that there's a ghost that haunt the centre. Bill, the night guard, told us a lot of episodes about the ghost's apparitions. So... those drawings are the result of all those stories.

Chopin - Préludes

This is the first of the two cd graphic I made for my illustration class final project.
I decide to create a cd-cover for a Chopin work: "les préludes"; my mission was to create an image that young people would appreciate, not the classic abstrait work that we usually see on classic cd-case.
I crate an evocative image following that the music inspired me.
Here the first versione and some sketches before the final version.

Lollapalosa

Still in love with Seth Fisher... Why did he die so young? This drawing is inspired by some of his art and a Range Murata pic.
I promised to update more, yet November is coming and I didn't put anything new for the whole month...
So sorry.
I would like to close this blog and start a more serious one... but I'm not sure that will stop me from delaying works.

Reminescenze

Wow è cambiata l'interfaccia di blogger... meglio così, quella vecchia aveva uno stile proprio vetusto.
Mentre lavoravo alle nuove tavole ho ripescato per caso questo schizzo fatto al mare.
Non dico che nostalgia perché l'università qui in canada mi concede un'abbonamento gratuito alla piscina e in questi ultimi giorni il sole non manca affatto... posso sedermi sul patio della casa e fare la vecchia che guarda i passanti. Che relax.

Fumettisti scalanti tetti a Osaka

Proseguiamo lungo la mia tabella di marcia, finiti i lavori per i concorsi mi attendono un po' di esercizi vari per non perdere la mano, visto che appena iniziata l'università le perderò entrambe.

Ecco quindi i primi risultati:
volevo da infinito tempo fare un disegno tributo a Tele, l'uomo della mia vita! Il magnifico incrocio di una Punk e un canguro, partorito dalla mente annacquata di Jamie Hewlett, il creatore dei Gorillaz.
Il secondo è invece un disegno ispirato a Tokyo, di Seth Fisher, un tizio idiota che non ha avuto di meglio da fare che morire cadendo da un tetto e privarci di tutte le possibili magnifiche tavole che le sue mani avrebbero potuto creare...