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!

Not dead!

Hey there! I'm not dead, even if the lack of updates might make you think that. I've moved to Finland for the summer, and adapting to the new surrounding had me dazzled and confused for a few weeks. I've been writing my first long script (30 pages) for a one-shot comic for EKOenergy, as part of the European Volunteer Project. Now that the boring part is over, I'll be able to update y'all with some drawings in the next days. Note to self: I'm better at drawing than writing. Keep it in mind.

I have been doing some random drawings as part of the morning warm up, as well as some sketchcrawling...but my bad again, not having the scanner at home is making me missing a lot of opportunities. I bought a few pens for inking, following the suggestion to clean up my lines instead of painting them black, and I'm quite satisfied.

  

And late as everything else this month, a drawing for a friend. She dyed my hair a month and a half ago and only a few days ago I've been able to do my part of the trade. Enjoy!

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School's out!

I study in the best school ever. This is the final project for this year (for those who can't read italian...well, look at the drawings ._.)

But HOW did we get here? This school year was full of new things to learn from the begininning. I felt like a newbie again, and it wasn't bad, but I think I need a lot of practice to actually learn what we've been taught.
First of all, inking.  I switched from various tecniques (nib, brush, brushpen, pen, digital...), and I'm still looking for the most suitable for my drawings. Anyway, I definately did a lot of progresses: one of the best of 2013 done with nibs, and one of the best of 2014 in brushpen.

Most of all, I think I'm starting to balance the ink with the color, that was one of the most difficult part for me. Color is still a bitch, but I've managed to make some progesses too (spoiler page from Valley-01 #2!):

There's definately a lot of work and exercise to do, as well as in every other aspect of the page (I'm still struggling with backgrounds, and I probably always will), but I got the principles and I think the result is waaay better in just a couple of months.

The most difficult part of this year's studies is that there are a lot of possibilities, both with ink and color, all of them equally useful. I mean, faces and hands and bodies and backgrounds have basic rules to follow, and I'm pretty sure about how I want them to turn out. This doesn't apply to ink, mostly because I'm not sure about the result I want. I like most of the results I can get, and I haven't even started to go into details as mostly of the scenes I draw are actually pretty plain (dialogues, mostly inside, with a few characters). I don't even start to talk about color, you can imagine how many differences there can be in coloring pages. As for now, I want to find at least one satisfying way to have a solid page, and avoid the messy look of my older pages.

Copenhagen

Sketches from a short trip to Copenhagen. Yes, my handwriting is almost unreadable for me too, but the notes are quite pointless anyway

Oltre il bosco

Some quick characters design for a short story I'm working on at school

Tattoos

I'm trying myself on some tattoos designs. Most of them have been done for fun, some are requested and some might be used in the future. I'm pretty satisfied with them.

Old characters

So, some older characters came by to say Hi. They were kinda stuck in the pencil. I'm glad to see they're doing fine; I'm considering getting them back on paper for a short story. Some preview

DC talent search - Harley Quinn

So it happens that DC comics is hosting a talent search with a requested page on Harley Quinn, and we're giving it a try. It seems like the lady and I are pretty good together

Perspective practice and character design

Spaghetti Western

It seems I'm almots done with Spaghetti Western, the short story I planned to draw this summer. The last page is still in need of a clean up, but I'm confident I'll have the inks done in a day or two. Spare time has been missing thi summer (yay!)

Seems like august is distracting me. I'm actually drawing a lot, but I keep getting distracted by the outside world and don't blog enough. Anyway: some random drawings, fan art, and sample pages (fingers crossed on this)

Bremen!

I've been in Bremen to visit a close friend last week. I was mostly relaxing, so the sketchbook has been used very little, but I've got some good sketches to share. Enjoy!

Project Managing Formula video

Worked on some videoclip for Elementool.com some month ago. From sketches to the final result

Watch the full video finished

Practice makes perfect