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.

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.

I just watched Stanley Donen’s “Charade” the other day
This movie, in my opinion, is just perfect! it has the right mixture of comedy, romance, mystery and thriller, it’s so sharp.
I love the style of the characters, their hairstyles, the whole atmosphere.
And last but not least, some of my favorite actors playing together in one movie!

Tags: movie, portrait.