Testing some new analog techniques for my next Graphic Novel, Geist Maschine. This one is made with Nicker Poster Color, Talens Ecoline, Promarker and Copic alcool markers.
Il Confine | Teaser Poster
Teaser poster for upcoming comic book series "Il Confine" by Mauro Uzzeo and Giovanni Masi. It will be published in Italy by Sergio Bonelli Editore and will be adapted as a TV series by Lucky Red.
It's an A3 graphite, airbrushed watercolour and gouache grayscale image on Fabriano Artistico Hot Pressed paper. Colour was applied with a digital post production process.
Here is the full step by step tech breakdown, from digital procreate sketches, to graphite pass, airbrush midtones, gouache highlights.
ARF! 2016 Official poster illustration
"Io da Roma proprio non riesco a separarmi.
I motivi sono tanti, è chiaro, ma ce n’è uno in particolare che è senza dubbio il più forte.
Non credo esista un posto con un’intensità artistica maggiore di Roma, nel mondo, e l’idea, per quanto assurda, di provare ad avere una risposta da una città severa come Roma al mio amore sfrenato è forse il giogo più stretto che mi ci tiene attaccato. Quando ti capita l’occasione di disegnare sulle strade della città con un manifesto di un evento importante come ARF! (che oltretutto la incarna quella antica forza visionaria), è uno di quei rari momenti in cui Roma abbozza di nascosto una risposta al tuo messaggio d’amore.
Il mio manifesto per ARF! è, prima ancora che un ennesimo atto d’amore per questa città, uno di quei rarissimi, preziosissimi, atti di amore che la città mi concede."
This is from a post I made on social networks when the poster was revealed: long story short: it's a HUGE honour to have been chosen to illustrate the official poster image for ARF! Festival 2016.
ARF! Festival is a young yet amazing event, reuniting immense talent in a three days love trip for comic enthusiasts or simply people that want to plunge deep into the excellence of sequential narrative or even to just have a first contact with this mesmerizing art form.
Moreover this year event will take place at MACRO TESTACCIO, a beautiful museum obtained from an old slaughterhouse in the center of Rome and one of the most important exhibition spaces in the capital.
Extras!
Some behind the scenes/process!
I started with some rough concept ideas, and drafted out some value sketches.
Then, once the main subject was selected by the ARF! crew I started working thru all the different stages: black ink lineart, watercolour and pencil shading, digital coloring, graphic design mock up. The on paper part of the drawing is quite big: it's watercolour, pencil and ink on an A2 Fabriano Artistico hotpressed satin watercolour paper.
And this is the final piece with the graphic design provided by Fabrizio Verrocchi and Paolo Campana.
Thanks to everybody at ARF!