Sketches Oct 2015

Here we are!! I prepared this frame of sketches long ago, but I forgot to load on the web.

I hope you like!! I want to point out that on this smooth paper (the one you can find in cheap sketchbook in Tiger) the effect of copic maker is quite good and this three shades of warm grays can cover for  monochrome watercolor.

Alternative world studies

Hello people!! I want to share this week something different. It's an old job I made for the entertainment illustration course. We had to develop some charcters and world features according to a narrative path. It was spring 2013.

I developed a couple of races, male and female, a couple of beasts and some sketches of the enviroment. I used pencil, pen and three copic marker for the tones.

Scketchcrawl Florence 23/01/2016

Hallo!! Last Saturday was the international sketchcrawl. I joined the group in Florence. We spent the morning sketching at the Marini Museum in Florence. That place was wanderful, an old church transformed into a museum. Also the artworks were great with lots of statues and paintings from this modern artist

Present for a collegue

Sometime ago, some year actually, a collegue saw a drawing of mine in wich was portraited a woman. That woman had a scarf on her had; the collegue was very fond of the picture and I gave her that little pen sketch. After some year, in wich our paths have risked to fallen apart, we are together again, not in the same office but near. So she asked me to make a St. Joseph, beacuse that scarfed woman reminds her of St. Mary. So, after some research, I found a Rembrandt's pen sketch wich was a study for a St. Joseph. I made a copy for her but also a photo (and a copy) for memory.
Here it is..

Sepia Pitt Pen on a watercolor base of ochre and  burnt umber.

Illustrazione per una raccolta di poesie di Franca Bellucci

Per una raccolta di poesie di Franca Bellucci. Il tema dei due cipressi a guardia del colle (Montalbano  ritorna :-). Con l'aggiunta dell'aquilone suggerito da Franca. (Originale in china circa 20x10)

Here is an illustration for a collection of poems by Franca Bellucci, my mother. The kite was suggested by her, while the hill is the familiar Montalbano ;). Some critique watching the picture now (couple of year later)... maybe I would work differently the clouds, and also the border of the Montalbano: it's to thick and defined. And also the hatching of the hill is too regular..

Illustrazione per una raccolta di poesie di Laura Visconti

Chissà se sarà pubblicato.. originale china su carta circo 18x20 cm.

This was done on commission, to illustrate a poem book by Laura Visconti. Unfortunately this was not selected... but anyway, here's the work, ink pen. The worst thing I notice is the leg of the girl, I remember I struggled a bit with it. And also the pattern of the sea waves.. It is ok in general, but I should have avoided the tangent of the last wave..

Fontana

Fontana a piazza D'Azeglio a Firenze (07/2013)

Here is a sketch of a fountain in a garden of Florence, in pen and pencil. I was waiting for the rehearsal with my choir. (july 2013)