Stelle Fredde

A friend asked me to take part in a project of book covers re-design. The only constraint was to use a squared format. The old man on top should be Dostoevsky (and not Darwin), the second drawing it's just inspired by the name of the book "Cold Stars" and my little tarots obsession.

Souvenir de voyage

Some pages from the traveling sketchbook I took with me in US. My fav is the "Poo Temple" on the left corner of the second page, that place was the funniest!

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.

Patternized

It's about two years that I've started swing dancing. Entering this community have been a really exciting, I've meet thousands funny people, discovered a new way of listening and interacting with music and with my body... an A++ experience.

After many delays and abandoned sketches I've finally made a pattern with the portraits of some of the people that have started this "adventure" with me..!

Saudade portraits

I went for a three day trip in Lisbon, everything (and everybody) was so colorful and nice. I tried to bring the sketchbook during the visits, but in the end the only place where I found the time to seat and draw was at the airport waiting for the boarding... however once back I've done this quick doodle inspired by some funny surnames my friend S. has invented.

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.

Where's february gone?

Here is a character (the Princess of the Crystal, that's a silly name) from the anime Mawaru Penguindrum (that's an other silly one) in three different styles of drawing; the first one is inspired by McBess, the second has a rough pencil line I take from some illustration of new Tank Girl's comics and an art book of Ashley Wood. The third is inspired by a drawing of Claire Wendling but I wasn't able to reproduce the softness of the line and the colors of her style... neither the proportion she uses... a total fail.

But anyway it was funny to try.

Sexy like a paper cut

When I'm completely bored in my Sundays afternoon I sometimes make things like this.

I'm trying to study new kinds of photoshop brushes and colors matches. I want to find a new way of drawing edges... the black line always looks too "cartoon"...

Wow... I noticed right now that's the first post of the new year! I'll try to make a self portrait next January too and look if there are changement on my style!

Ho dimenticato il titolo

Avendo pochi materiali di disegno sto facendo un po' di schizzi vari con le matite colorate della mia coinquilina, risalenti probabilmente alle sue elementari... Ultimamente ho visto "Where the wild things are" mi è piaciuto moltissimo il costume da mostriciattolo che ha il protagonista, ora mi metterò a disegnare orecchie appuntite a tutti i ritratti che faccio! Sto iniziando impertinentemente a fare ritratti ai miei compagni di classe, quello in alto ne è un esempio, non che sia molto rassomigliante, ma scarabocchiare a lezione aumenta la mia concentrazione.

Mi son ripromessa che il prossimo post lo scriverò in inglese per dare un tocco un po' internazionale al blog.

Mantenere i fioretti

Mantenere buoni propositi è davvero stancante, volevo mettere almeno due post per mese ma in periodo pre-laurea a quanto pare è pretendere troppo. Quindi mi accontenterò di un post dell'ultimo minuto con uno schizzo alla buona.

E quella cosa i mezzo alla guancia non è un grumo di inchiostro ma un neo molto dandy.

Le coltri di polvere

Nelle puntate precedeti:
Yukino (le prendo in prestito il nome solo per oggi) si è patentata, ha dato tutti gli esami del semestre, ha passato con ottimi voti il TOEFL, temibile esame d'inglese, e si è iscritta al programma Erasmus della sua facoltà nella speranza di partire in CANADA l'anno prossimo. La nostra giovane stacanovista ha quindi trascurato le piccole gioie del disegno, ma colta dal senso di colpa, dal ritorno dall'entusiasmante fiera di Mantova, si è finalmente decisa a aggiornare la grafica del blog (non pretendo che ve ne accorgiate) e a postare qualcosa.

Quindi:
Ecco il biglietto che ho fatto per pubblicizzare l'Atelier di moda di mia cugina Stella, che sta tentando di farsi strada in quest'ambiente di squali con le proprie forze, spero vorrete dare un occhio alle sue creazioni su FB: sono tutti abiti molto belli e originali.

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