In this section you’ll see traditional painting and drawing
techniques by clicking on every subsection in the text column on the
left.
Since I’ve started working as a professional
graphic designer in 1997, using the computer in my daily work, I got
less and less opportunities to enhance traditional drawing and
illustration techniques, so all the works in this section of my web
site are quite old.
Anyway, practicing traditional techniques
once in a while is a smart choice in order to enhance your skills, and
a good starting point to study characters, times and environments
you’ll be developing later using sofware based processes such
as Photoshop, Painter, ZBrush e Maya.
Though I 'd like to
invest mostly in the 2D digital and 3D environment for the days to
come, I hope this section will host all sketches and drawings I need as
preproduction artworks for the final digital rendering techniques.
The Ink section shows the use of traditional ink tools, such as ink pencils
and markers on paper.
These drawings mostly come from a couple
of drawing books on which I used to sketch dreams and whatever I wanted
to draw, or to write thoughts and notes during the past years,
expecially when I was a graphic design student in Urbino (Italy). Some
are very, very old! Right! That’s because I am old.
The Pastels section relates to some anatomy exercises I used to draw in
order to enhance my skills in sketching male and female figure without
any reference.
These drawings are made using one or two
watercolor pastels. Once I shaped the figure I used a wet brush on
pastel lines for shading. I love this technique!
The Acrylics section consists of nine illustrations I painted using acrylics on paper. These illustrations represent my personal tribute to the world of horror and fantastic movies.
The Mixed Techniques 1 section consists of my 1992 degree thesis at ISIA - Urbino (Italy). Basically, every single artwork was made of a plastic support plate with a paper surface on; images were marked by scrubbing a trichloroethylene soaked cotton wad from the backside of some photocopies. In other words, it’s a technique similar to what you could achieve today by using Photoshop layer blending method, without poisoning yourself with trichloroethylene vapors! I then colored the backgrounds using different techniques and I glued several objects as foreground. Finally, I took pictures of the works. I really enjoied this job! Hope you like it!
The Mixed Techniques 2 section, except for a couple of pencil and gouache illustrations, consists of ink drawings I photocopied both on white and coloured paper, and ricombined in order to get an interesting, sharp color contrast.