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Long break. I got a "real job" that took away most of my time for the past month, so I took a break from drawing - at least professionally.

I'm back to comics (specifically Chaos Campus) now that the new job isn't so demanding anymore. I've spent the last month drawing for fun and experimenting with stuff like markers and acrylics and boy it was needed! It was a long time since I drew with passion because I liked it and not because I had to pay bills.

More to come, and comics soon to be back! I cannot wait to start the new episode of Chaos Campus tomorrow

Textures

Experiments. Well, yeah, I'm late on everything by some years I think

Also, Chaos Campus always in progress

Chaos Campus - Wizards World, Sacramento this weekend

So, the first episode I drew for the Chaos Campus serie is available! ...well, only at Sacramento's Wizard World as for now. Alex Thompson will be there with our booth, if you can, check it out!

I can't wait to have a couple of these in my hands.

Worry not, the next episodes are on their way too

Drawing routine

Nevermind me, just keeping on drawing

Dawn of the Dad in progress

Random commission of the week

Chaos Campus #27 in progress

So many comics, so little time...

Now that I'm done with Chaos Campus #29 (yeah, this is my favourite page of the whole issue) I can rest for a whi...nevermind. I'm working on the next Chaos Campus issue, but also...

My very last school project. Studies over Tex

I haven't forgotten Dawn of the D(e)ad. Trying to finish the whole first chapter, hoping people will enjoy it at least online. I don't want it to sit in the drawer.

Last but not least...

Here, have some sexy girls. That's what Chaos Campus is mostly made of.

Chaos Campus #29

This month is being super hard due to a short deadline...Chaos Campus issue 29 on its way! I'm having super fun drawing this. Boobs everywhere!

"Rider" graphic novel is up!

Fastback pictures is working on a post-apocalyptic movie. You know, bikers, wastelands, slavery, though characters...and I got to draw the graphic novel! You can read the preview here
Some of my favourite pages

New skills!

I've started to actually study how to use vectors to draw. It's easier than it seems.

Promotional illustrations for Libertas - settore comunicazione

Also ladies and gentleman, easter is just around the corner! Chocolate incoming!

Dawn of the D(e)ad - pages!

Ahahahahah! First couple of pages colored (yeah, they'll probably need to be fixed, but I'm overall satisfied). Enjoy!

I also had the chance to make a test page for Scattered Studio, that will hopefully open some new opportunities. I can't wait to meet the artist that is in charge of coloring it, it would be the first time actually sharing an image with someone

Action!

Drawing action scenes is something rare for me, both because of my preferences when writing a story and because of the commissions I usually get. I guess it's the cat biting its tail, but I somehow got out of it with Chaos Campus.

I'm also studying this kind of violence. Thanks, Crossed.

Working on Dawn of the D(e)ad, too! First pencils are on their way (it seems I forgot to scan them, so let's talk about them next week), and a work in progress cover art. I swear if I don't get this published I'm gonna turn it into a webcomic.

Dawn of the D(e)ad

I'm getting SO excited about the new school project. I hope it turns out good enough to be actually proposed all around. I'm kinda ready to start the actual pages; as for now, ladies and gentleman, the main characters:

Also drawing a short story written by a friend. Hopefully we may start to have a good collaboration -she writes crazy stuffy.

A samples week

This week has been mostly dedicated to characters design and samples, but I've also finished this spread page!

As I supposed, the split panel hasn't been a great idea, but it turned out fine anyway.

Some characters design in progress for Dawn of the Dad:

I'm really happy with the colors, but I'm not quite sure about the first girl.

Bonus: samples I've been asked for a couple of possible jobs (to be finished)

 

Antho aren't my thing, definately.

New school project, whooohooo! (and portfolio on its way, too)

Still remaking pages from last year. I really liked this one in terms of storyboard, so I kept it the same, enhancing the drawings. I'm planning to go with watercolors again (there's some more background on the right half, but I left it in pencil and it seems the scan cannot take everything up). Anyway the sheet is big and I had to cut the two pages apart...before realizing I have to color that split panel on top. I can't wait to find myself trying to fix the vertical splitting line. Yeeeeeah.

We started the new school project! This is gonna be fun. And easy to draw. I want it to be super graphic. I love the results I get with watercolors, but I need to change from time to time. Ladies and gentlemen, the first characters sketches!

Getting back to digital coloring (slowly and carefully)

I need to switch tecniques and styles quite often, it seems. I was doing so well with watercolors, and this is the latest. Mmh.

I guess the bigger problem here is that I'm not so patient to keep up with the amount of details the most recent pages required. Let's see if switching to something graphic for the next project helps.

Still working on cover arts, too. This is for Rider! Still waiting for review and approval, so it's probably not going to be the definitive version

No idea why in the storyboard I made the bike going right-to-left. It's also more difficult to draw this line that way. 

Cover art!

 It seems like all of the issues I've been drawing lately ended up in the same moment, right in time to force me to move to do all the covers one after another. I'm so grateful for those that give me the graphics to add, because I really hate to decide on the title looks and similar.

This is for the school project. I noticed I hadn't a real title for it, because the story actually sucks and it's completely different from the one I wanted to write...but it was my first script, I understand. So basically, the main character's name seems to work well enough.

Chaos Campus is still in the making, as you can see by the rough stage of the cover. I love it anyway.

And last but not least, I'm re-coloring the cover art for an upcoming project about Tomoe Gozen's life. Now that I'm adjusting to watercolors it feels so weird and difficult to make proper use of digital coloring. I'm not sure I like it, but it improved a lot since the first version