Below: naked illustration, graphite, watercolour and gouache.
Bonus: a fake Xevious cover.
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Below: naked cover. Graphite, watercolour, colored pencils, gouache.
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Below: naked cover illustration, graphite, gouache and watercolour.
Self portrait
This mixed media painting is now in the artist’s self portaits permanent collection of “Le Gallerie Degli Uffizi”.
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Below: Graphite pass
Below: a selection of digital concept sketches from the first creative round.
Il Confine Vol.5
Cover Illustration for “Il Confine” vol.5, a comic book series published by Sergio Bonelli Editore written by Mauro Uzzeo and Giovanni Masi.
Below: analog pass graphite underpainting.
Below: original digital concepts from the first creative round.
Lucca 2020 unofficial poster
Aries pin
Aries illustration for Bao Publishing “Zodiac” pin collection.
The Book of Vision | Original Movie Poster
I was very lucky, honoured and proud to have the chance to design the official movie poster for “The Book of Vision”, by Carlo S. Hintermann, produced by Terrence Malick.
I contributed to various creative aspects of the movie: conceptual visual design and VFX supervising mostly, but I also designed the logo and the opening and closing title sequences.
I spent some incredible days on ad off thr set, collaborating with truly outstanding artists.
I followed the movie production since the very beginning, so I was very confident and had a lot of inputs to develop in a poster image for it.
After designing the logo, I designed several rough concepts for the movie poster. I tried to produce as many different ideas as I could: I wanted to explore as much visual possibilities the movie had to offer and there were so many!
More than I could possibly handle, actually :)
Here you can see a brief selection of the various concepts I developed.
The analog pass
I ended up with this close up frontal portrait of Eva (Lotte Verbeek), the main movie character, kind of mutating and blooming, sprouting from a giant tree.
The drawing itself is a graphite on ultrachrome light black ink underpainting on 61x46 cm Arches hot pressed 100% cotton paper.
The digital (and final) pass
Then I added digital color.
I also heavily changed some parts of the drawing, I wasn’t very happy with the result of some details (the right ear, mostly) and digital came to the rescue.
Extra content: making of
For the hard core process lovers: the whole drawing and design phase was live streamed so If you are really into behind the scenes kind of footage you can find all the clips in these youtube videos below. Bear in mind they are not edited at all, so expect some very long videos with some random chatting.
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Il Confine Vol.6
Cover Illustration for “Il Confine” vol.6, a comic book series published by Sergio Bonelli Editore written by Mauro Uzzeo and Giovanni Masi.
Below: analog pass, graphite underpainting.
Below: original concept sketches from the first creative round.
Reflecting Chamber
Record cover for my pal d/glitched.
Parlami Ancora | Robinson di Repubblica
IT: Oggi è uscito un numero speciale di @robinson_repubblica , un numero tutto visuale. Il tema è ”resistere” ed è stato affidato ad alcune fra le più interessanti matite del fumetto italiano, più di cinquanta autori fra i quali spiccano alcuni maestri assoluti a partire da Mattotti che ha relizzato una splendida copertina.
A sorpresa, la mia astronauta dispersa nello spazio ha avuto l’onore grande di essere scelta per accompagnare la doppia pagina con il bellissimo editoriale del direttore Luca Valtorta.
Un pezzo in grado di mettere in primo piano la forza del fumetto come linguaggio come poche volte ne ho letti sulla stampa generalista. Detto questo: adoro la resa, il “grit” del retino della stampa dei quotidiani, un giorno metterò insieme un progetto solo per quel tipo di carta/stampa.
Qui sotto l’immagine digitale che è andata in stampa: la differenza è incredibile!
EN: I was involved in a very special issue of @robinson_repubblica. It is a completely visual issue and the main topic is "resist". It features some of the most interesting Italian comic artists, more than fifty authors including absolute masters like Lorenzo Mattotti who designed an amazing cover for the issue. Surprisingly, my lost in space astronaut had the great honor of being chosen for the opening double spread aside of the beautiful editorial by Robinson's director Luca Valtorta. I love the texture, the grit of newspaper printing, one day I will put together a project just for that type of paper / print. Isn't it amazing how poor and flat the original digital file looks in comparison?
Il Confine Vol.4
Cover Illustration for “Il Confine” vol.4, a comic book series published by Sergio Bonelli Editore written by Mauro Uzzeo and Giovanni Masi.
Below: analog pass, graphite underpainting.
Chorus Life "Live on stage"
One of a kind 6 meters wide poster to promote “Chorus Life”, a new district in Bergamo (IT).
Chorus Life "BPM"
One of a kind 6 meters wide poster to promote “Chorus Life”, a new district in Bergamo (IT).
Chorus Life: "Connected"
One of a kind 6 meters wide poster to promote “Chorus Life”, a new district in Bergamo (IT).
Il Mondo Deve Sapere
Cover illustration for “Il Mondo deve Sapere” by Michela Murgia, published by Giulio Einaudi Editore.
Miele e Olio PARCO
Label design for honey jar and oil bottles. Both are produced inside the Colosseum Archaeologic Park in Rome.
Some alternative takes from the early proposals:
Il Confine Vol.1
Cover Illustration for “Il Confine” vol.1, a comic book series published by Sergio Bonelli Editore written by Mauro Uzzeo and Giovanni Masi.
Below: Some work in progress shots.
Below: original proposals from the first creative round.
Il Confine Vol.3
Cover Illustration for “Il Confine” vol.1, a comic book series published by Sergio Bonelli Editore written by Mauro Uzzeo and Giovanni Masi.
Below: original digital draft proposal.