Just having fun

Tags: digital, girl, hentai, illustration, manga.

Here’s another sticker for the “famous” stickers sheet I’m working on.
The eagle is not my favorite subject but I have to say it is a classic one sticker.

Tags: design, illustration, sticker, work.

Dedicato a tutti i cuginetti delle campagne laziali.

I’ve been playing around with animated gifs lately, there’s a cool site (iamnotanartist.org) where there’s a huge collection of them, and where you can post your.

Tags: animation, asroma, totti.

Here’s another one from the series of stickers I’m designing. I did this silly animation to show a bit the process, from the sketch to the final piece, which is by the way, not very done yet.

Tags: illustration, process, sticker.

I’m currently working, among other stuff, to a series of stickers. Here’s a finished one.

Tags: girl, hentai, sticker.

I did make this drawings as a sort of exercise where the aim was to bring back on paper a visual definition of those “insignificant” things.

You can see the all series of Woods and Twigs drawings on my Flickr page: click here

Tags: illustration, ink, nature.

I haven’t been posting new stuff lately.
That because I’ve been totally into designing the Why Style web page, and switching from a creative form of work as I’m used to, such as illustration, to something more properly technical like designing a web site, occupies totally my mind space, and I’m not able to process different things than css, div, properties, selectors and so on, if you know what I’m talking about.

I only started studying web design processes  a little wile ago and I’ve been storing totally new information, which I forget about most of them, and I have to constantly go back to my block note.
I decided to know more about what’s behind a web page, to be able to control the possibilities that the media offers, and even if I limit my functions to the visual layout, having basic knowledge of how a static design is going to be made functional gives to my design process a better understanding of what I’m designing for, and consequentially how it should be designed.

The thing with web design is that the process is distinguishably divided in two phases; the designer makes the visual part and lands it to the web developer that makes it work on the web. That passage is often critical, since the developer most often doesn’t understand and doesn’t see the details of the layout, and the page can end up with something similar but not totally respectful of the original design.

So, to avoid the “danger” of seeing your layout translated in something was not suppose to be it helps knowing the basics of how the visual web page it is going to be built, in a way that the designer can follow the building process from a closer point of view.
There are as well very good developers, aware of how to respect a layout, but most often if they’re not your friends they could be quite expensive, at least for my pockets.

A solution to a good translation of a design to a web page would be if the designer is also the developer, but I don’t quite believe in that possibility, since they’re two fields that need constant practice and study, having to handle both sphere would turn into not knowing them well enough.

So to go back to the Why Style web page I’ve been busy with until now, here it is: www.whystyle.com, and even if  the passage of my layout to the developer wasn’t very smooth, and the site is not 100% as I aspect it to be; mainly for my inexperience in the matter, the most important thing is that now Why Style collective has a voice out there. Willing to improve the site always better, I hope you will enjoy it.

By the way, if you don’t know Why Style is an art collective that I’m a confounded of.

Tags: design, layout, Why Style.

When I would like to have done something myself it means that I really like that thing, that’s the case of Travel, a manga I’ve recently bought.

I really like the cover jacket, which hide in the inside a “secret” drawing.

Beside the good layout, that makes of this book also a nice object, the comic it self, if we can call it “comic”, is pushed to it’s limits, and it become something else, touching the edges of a pure art form.
The plot it’s completely without words and sounds, this privation makes the story be a sequence of uninterrupted actions, and even if there aren’t words to tell us which sounds or which thoughts are passing by the characters’ mind, we can figure it out on our own even stronger.
It feels like that the author Yuchi Yokoyama created a unique graphic language, where the lines of actions and the happenings trough the story intersect creating panels of pure abstraction.

The other recommendation, is also a manga, but in this case a very classic one, that I’ve just discover recently.
Oishinbo is a jorney into the culinary Japanese’s culture, where two masters of cooking challenge themeselfs in a series of cooking battles.
Trough this comic you can understand how important is the food in Japanese culture which is one of my favorites together with the Italian cuisine. This manga works as a real cooking book, in fact the detailed explanation of the dishes can aloud you to really make them.

Tags: manga, Review.

Yesterday I went to the Amsterdam’s presentation of the book All City Writers, in little words all you have to know about forty years of Graffiti in Europe and not only.
Andrea Caputo, the author of this book contacted me a couple of years ago, asking for a contribution. I have to admit I was a bit skeptic, like: “do we need another book about the subject?”.
So far All City Writers is one of the best graffiti book, not only for the contents, which are richness; there’s an incredible work of research behind the pages, but also for the way those contents are presented, in a thoughtful layout, clear and functional.
So, I had to reconsider my initial skepticism, this is a must have book, if you are interested on the subject and either if you just like very well done products.

And of course I had my copy signed by some of the old school Amsterdam’s buddies.

And if you want to know more about All City Writers, there’s a very nice web-site too:
www.allcitywriters.com

Tags: book, graffiti.

I’ve just finished this painting.

Tags: illustration, manga, painting.