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Super Maradona

The English team is not going well;
does not understand the proverbial Italian gestures

Italians team tactic

Tags: caricature, illustration, ink, portrait.

Playing around with some more portraits. Here I decided to portray a series of Italian character; people that I like, I respect or I have sympathy for.
The aim was to capture on a quick drawing the essence of a face, getting that “thing” that makes a portrait looks like the portrayed. This was not an exercise in copying, but searching the secrets of a face.
Executed in charcoal this drawings are made as fast as I could, each one was made in about 30 minutes; still too long for what I wanted to do, but trying to get faster.
Below a small preview of the portraits, if you want to see them bigger please visit my Flickr page.
Plus I did a movie showing the making of Valentino Rossi’s portrait.

Tags: caricature, illustration, movie, portrait, process.

Here some portraits of football players I’ve done so far, I’m still working on it, getting ready in my way to the coming world cup in South Africa.
They are quickly made drawings, using an inking nib, which is a tool I’d like to master, well; maybe just fell comfortable with it. Differently as I did lately when I used charcoal, ink doesn’t give room for errors, when you do a stroke, that’s it, not going back and corrections aloud, so it improves confidence and it’s a very good exercise.

To see more and in details those drawing, please visit my Flickr page.
New players portraits coming during this all period of the world cup.

Tags: caricature, illustration, ink, portrait.

On the preview post, i show you some portraits I made using charcoal.
Now I want to show on video a couple of them, to explain briefly how do I use tree simple tools; charcoal pencil, charcoal chalk and eraser.

PS: I couldn’t resist on putting on one of the movie the song quiero que me quieras, from Rudo y Cursi movie that I’ve just saw, very funny!

Tags: charcoal, Drawing, illustration, movie, portrait.

CLAUDIO RANIERI
l’imperatore

DAVID MARCELO CORTES PIZARRO
el pequeno

LUCA TONI
spaghetti pepperoni

FRANCESCO TOTTI
Il Capitano, Bimbo De Oro, Er Pupone

MIRKO VUCINIC
Mosè Mirkooooooooo!!!

DANIELE DE ROSSI
capitan futuro (e presente, dico io)

SIMONE PERROTTA
grande sopracciglione mio!

JEREMY MENEZ
houdini

RODRIGO FERRANTE TADDEI
l’uomo cavallo

PHILIPPE MEXES
Rugantino

JOHN ARNE SEMUNDSETH RIISE
er roscio a.k.a. alien

MARCO CASSETTI
jack Nicholson in Shining

NICOLAS ANDRES BURDISSO
scarface

SILVEIRA DOS SANTOS JUAN
gambe prensili

JULIO SERGIO BERTAGNOLI
finalmente c’avemo il portiere!

Tags: asroma, charcoal, illustration, portrait.

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.

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 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’ve just finished this painting.

Tags: illustration, manga, painting.