Once upon a time

this is sketching by memory the actress that play Tamara in the 2nd season of Once upon a time. So it come out quite different but oh well... at least I painted something.

Auguri Papa' (Happy Father's day)

In Italy it happen to be on March 19th!

sketching Monster University

Ahhh! I really like how mike come out!
These are illustrations of Mike Wazowski and the Dean Hardscrabble made in watercolor from a still frame reference.
When I was watching MU I though... what a great modeling and lighting! So, as I had another night rental available, I start to watch it a second time, and then... o well, I basically spent the rest of the evening on getting these 2 done :-D
Hope you like them too!

Digital doodling

Here a couple of sketches i did recently. The landscape is made with FreshPaint, after I attended a real acrylic painting class (Tangled) at the Paintlounge here in Toronto. The other sketch is made with Sketchbook Pro.

Sewing my gift - year 2

Again, I got so much fleece and quilt fabric, I though to make a bunch of useful handmade gift this year. There are a lots of tutorials online, plus I personalized some item as I like, o made up others (like my keyboard cover, which I made for myself in the summer but I forgot to post it :-P)
Anyhow, here some example, many more on the bottom of my photo collection of sewing stuffs.

sculpting TV stars

  I sometime get bored of only watching TV, so I take advantage of the charismatic characters to do some art. Although is difficult, in the sense I'm not working with a posing model, but catching glimpses of the scharacter though the rolling of the film.
The mouse is instead from a picture of a gift bag (the wooden spoon was part of the bag with Remy print on it) I took advantage of some great morning lighting to do the shooting. More photo at the bottom of my sculpture and painting photo collection.
Although, the man is about 2 years old, the mouse was done last winter. I'm really bad at updating my blog :-P

The Collective - 3rd Batch

One image per session I attended. Other selected are avialable on the Flickr Lifedrawing album.

30 Days Art Challenge - Week 2

Ok, I'm excited for this (not really for the crappy compression that I put all my art under) But this were my 1st cat portraits made with Sketchbook Pro. I'm quite happy with this. Anyways, they're 2 cats, so they'll count for today too :-P

30 days art challenge - Week 1

I'm participating to a group of artist around the world that is encouraging eachother to do art for 30 days with the goal to challenge the onw abilities or learn new tecniques, digitally or traditionally. I cannot put here all the things I did because of work in progress, so I added more of my weekly life drawing at the collective :-)
Anyways, I tried a few new tecnique or subject, so I kept up with the challenge.

Sto partecipando ad un gruppo di artisti attorno al mondo che si sta incoraggiando a fare arte per 30 giorni, con l'obiettivo di migliorarsi e imparare nuove tecniche, sia tradizionali che digitali.
Non posso metter qui tutti i lavori che ho fatto perche' non sono finiti, dunque ho aggiunto qualche altro che ho fatto durante disegno dal vero questa settimana :-)
Alla fine, ho sempre provato nuove tecniche o nuovi soggetti, dunque ho mantenuto lo scopo della sfida.

Drawing pets

I had this idea that I had to improve my photoshop coloring skills, after looking at a number of artists blogs and tumblr. So I asked my friends to give me their pets photos and I did a couple of fast ones (they took me about 1 h 10 each). They're ok, but not what I had in mind. Well, I guess I need to draw more :-)

The Collective- 2nd batch

 Again, some other drawing from the Toronto Collective. For more drawing, you may refer to my flickr set. The Collective is actually a cool idea. A group of local artists set every week a meeting, to the place of one or the other, so every time is in a different part of the city. People bring food or drinks, they get a model which can be a friend, a member of the group, or a voulonteer model, and they spend 3 hours chatting and drawing, with some breaks, from 1 to 20 minute poses. The sessions are really entertaining and at the end everybody pass thier skechbook around, so anybody else can see the work done by the memebers of the goup, models included. To close up the evening, who can stay out later go and have dinner or a drink in a near by pub. Occasionally they organize art shows together. ITALIAN for the next batch ;-)

The other window - final

This is about what I had in mind. Really not precise on the proportion side. But I like the colors. These characters are Vera and Iale, of another more extensive project I'm going to do one day. Hopefully through some of these illustration I'll be able to achieve a style I'd be happy with and feel more self confident about finalizing it.

movies and sketches

I have little fortune in getting friends to willingly be a guinea pig for my caricature exercises. Safe for one of my colleagues, which by now occasionally simply hand me her notebook, a pencil, and makes me a big smile. Adorable. Other than that, I find better fortune in either watching TV or magazines. Here some of the ones I'm most happy with, which I traced back with a ink pen brush.

Jealousy

A fast Illustration for this idea I had.

the last minutes- revised.

 All right, finally the revised version of what I did last week, with brighter colors and fixed pose/proportions...
As for the boy, become a girl as was too feeble, but I like the new hair volume and kindness of this figure more. Hope you like this new version.

Toon caricatures

Oh well, some exercise to cartoon some friend. Please let me know if you'd like to be cartooned!

the last minutes

retake by Varethane (http://varethane.deviantart.com/)

Ok, this is an experiment for coloring with Sketchbook Pro, although I'm not really happy with this and I'd need some advice in order to make a more pleasant coloring. I think I'll do a version in wuatercolor and see how that will do. Please comment and critique!

Auguri Mamma!

Ecco un'illustrazione di un mio ricordo d'infanzia - childhood memory

The Collective

No, I didn't stop to draw with all that sewing!
I actually started to go to a collective life drawing here in Toronto, and I got to know a lot of cool local people that reminded me my old self. Finally back in track with some new life drawing!

the sun and the stars

preliminary illustration about reality and dreams.