Hello my fantastic patrons.
here goes - a little bit sadly - a step by step process of my tribute drawing to Raffaella Carrà, who recently passed away.
I mostly remember her big smile, and I chose to draw her in her young age, with he...
2021-07-10 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear patrons
It’s been sad to hear about showgirl Raffaella Carrà passing by. She was incredibly popular in Italy, a piece of pop culture. I have a lot of childhood memories related to her image, voice and shows.
I wa...
2021-07-09 09:42:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my fantastic patrons
I hope your summer is going as fantastic as possible ! I want to share with you the construction steps of this image I did for the Pride Month. It’s a portrait of Madonna in her last appearance in New York City. ...
2021-07-06 09:49:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, I forgot to share this :)
she’s one of Ekhö ‘s volume 10 main characters and I think she’s really charming! Here goes the head construction.
Hugs!
Alessandro
2021-06-26 00:38:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello back! Here goes the coloring.
As you can see, I played it safe and picked the color palette from my book pages :)
My anthem is "80% confort zone, 20% challenge"
I start putting down the global feeling with a bigh brush, not...
2021-06-24 13:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! Next post will be a step-by-step process of this illustration's coloring. So stay tuned :)
Alessandro
2021-06-22 13:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my super patrons! I hope you're well in this finally hot June (well, it's HOT here in Barcelona!)
I want to share with you something I did last week: a promotional poster for volume 2 of Grémillet Sisters.
I did itin a rush :D a...
2021-06-21 12:23:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my fantastic patrons, it’s HOT at last (well, here in Spain sure it is :)
I want to share with you a pin-up series I did to promote Ekhö Mirror World volume 10. Doing a “series” is always a good exercise, for you can use y...
2021-06-14 12:45:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello back again! Here goes the last one. You can see how I define the drawing playing with the pression of the hand for giving depth and volume.
I use Staedler ergo soft water coloring pencils for the pigment is very shiny and bright.
Hello back! In this video I did a close-up for the face redrawing. The expression of the character is always the MOST important thing to me, so I put a lot of care in it.
Hop, next vidéo sooooon :)
hugs
Alessandro
2021-05-19 10:00:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello fantastic Patrons. Here goes the first video, where you can see how I build the character with some simplified anatomy. I changed idea on the right arm pose but I am not sure it was a good thing ... what do you think about?
Next video ...
2021-05-18 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear patrons! Next post will be the video of the making of this drawing I did for my own very personal MerMay, where I want to transform my little daughters the W.I.T.C.H. heroines in mermaids.
You will be able to see the way ...
2021-05-17 22:10:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear PPatrons
here go the last 2 pages of my Ekhö volume 10 Pin-Ups collection!
I had a lot of fun with the air-dance positions! I used some reference pictures and modified. For the costumes I looked at Cirque du Soleil's cos...
2021-05-12 13:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey hey
some more pin-up pages :)
as the previous, they're bonus pages for a collector limited edition of Ekhö volume 10. The adventure is set in a fantasy China, so I kept playing with costumes and hairdos.
A.
2021-05-11 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello
here goes some more pages from the bonus part of the collector edition of Ekhö Mirror World vol.10
As you can see it's a simple and effective drawing and watercoloring style I often use for this kind of work. You can find proces...
2021-05-10 12:24:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear Patrons, I hope that everyone is well and creative!
As promised, I post here the first part of a special sneak-peek: the bonus pages from EKHÖ Mirror World #10 that I created for a limited de-luxe edition.
They will be p...
2021-05-06 09:39:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello m’y fantastica Patrons! In next post I’ll show you the Bonus Pin-Up pages I created for the luxury edition of Ekhö volume 10 ! It’s a preview because the book will be published only in some weeks (we postponed it a lot because of ... ...
2021-04-30 13:09:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello back my fantastic patrons!
Here goes the video of the shadowing of the previous drawing. It’s a simple and effective technique! You can keep the drawing like this, or add some digital colors later, as I showed in a previous post some...
2021-04-28 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello back! Here goes the video of the inking of this image. It’s a promotional drawing that will be sold (with some others) with the collector edition of Ekhö volume 10! Talking about this: this edition contains a nice bonus part: 12 pag...
2021-04-27 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello m’y dears ones! Next post is a VIDEO where I show the inking and shadowing process of this drawing. Coming soon!
hugs
Alessandro
2021-04-27 10:36:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! Yes my work on Ekhö volume 10 is not over yet! A special, deluxe edition is going to be printed soon (Graff éditions) and it needs a cover image.
Here is the full process from the first idea to the final image in BW.
Hello my fantastic patrons! Here goes a step by step process about this drawing I did of Taranee Cook , one of the heroines of my W.I.T.C.H. project.
As you can see I start placing the head and trace the Line of Action (very very important t...
2021-04-06 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello dear patrons. This drawing of Taranee had a huge success on my IG page, so I want to show you how I did it step by step. So maybe you can redraw it :) or use some tips on your own art. So stay tuned for next post!
2021-04-05 21:51:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again my wonderful Patrons.
I want to show you something I did right yesterday: it's a cover illustration for "Le Journal de Spirou" (Spirou Magazine, published by Dupuis in France and Belgium).
I chose to represent the three Gr...
2021-04-02 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey yo! Spring is here , and I can celebrate that I managed in finishing my last book in time!!! It's been crazy, 3 months for doing the job of 6 (or 9!). But the book is done, and will be in bookstores in June as promised!
So, I will show y...
2021-04-01 11:04:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear patrons!
I show you here the process for drawing a simple but effective pose .
I always start from the “balloon”: I place the head and trace the action line (which means the line that passes through the whole body and...
2021-03-17 08:53:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dears
I took some pictures and videos while making this drawing. In the next post I will tell you about my drawing process. Stay tuned!
Alessandro
2021-03-15 19:16:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear Patrons
here goes the steps for the coloring of this image, the cover image of Grémillet Sister's second book.
I already told in a previous post abour the idea: ucing 2 colors, blue and warm yellow, and play with the con...
2021-03-13 17:36:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my fantastic Patrons
here it is: the cover of the second volume of Grémillet Sister's adventures (Les Soeurs Grémillet, éditions Dupuis) is finished and being printed. Ouffff! Every cover is like giving birth XD
This is a spec...
2021-03-13 17:05:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone there, I hope you are well and safe!
In my previous post I published the step-by-step process for making this illustratio’s drawing. Next one will be about the digital coloring process. So, see you soon!
Alessandro
2021-02-27 19:31:26 +0000 UTC View Post