I could tell you to do always what makes you feel good.

• Work hard, because you can’t improve your skills from yesterday to today. You need time, a lot of time. Always look up to artists who are better than you, even if you feel depressed when you watch their works. You have to say yourself: I want to be better, and I can.
• There are a lot of people who’s gonna say you that what you do it’s stupid. Don’t listen them, they don’t understand and never will. 
• Respect your characters/drawings but don’t be a protetcive parent for them, they have to grow up and be better. So don’t treat them as precious kids, you can maltreat them because that’s what make you a good artist, never be completely satisfied with your work it’s part of the game. Your first idea is good but there’s always a way to do it better. It’s frustrating, but acting like this will give you the power to do the best. But also when you are ready to do a good work you know when it’s time to stop draw, and when your drawing it’s ok the way it is.
• Researches are important. Your fantasy it’s the big thing here, but it’s based on reality. If you don’t know reality you can’t draw an imaginative kingdom which seems very realistic.
• Human anatomy is the freaking rule. If you can’t draw people well you will never be good as you want. Sit down in a station, on in a airport, or in a mall and draw the people you see. It’s amazing the things you can learn from.
• Now that you have learned people you can understand the background, and the world. Because everything in this world made by a human is made to fit our body, and for the nature, we were born in it, so we fit in it. 
• And never forget: perspective.

So, basically, take your time to learn. Never rush.
Even a major artist never stop to learn something.

2 months ago · 11 notes

My lineart are not so perfect, at least in this kind of style.
They are all open lines, because I like it much sometimes, and it let me colour with more freedom.
I don’t do anything, I just draw with my tablet.

6 months ago · 13 notes

The first thing an art student learns in an art school is the composition. When you start a drawing, especially a portrait, you need to draw two lines to found the center of your sheet (the red ones), then you pick up your pencil and find all the proportions in the model. Put them in the sheet and you could find your limit guidelines. (the blue ones).

Now, this is the basic technique, when you start a drawing you need to found these lines and use them as references for the space you have to fill.
If you don’t find them, your draw could be out of center, and it is artistically bad and also bad for the vision. It’s strange and bother the eyes of who watch your work.
But it’s not like you have to draw all the characters or everything in the middle of your sheet. For the most detailed drawings every artist is like a graphic.
The “space” you have is filled with a lots of imaginary lines you can use for the “weights” of the things you’re gonna drawing. It’s called grid.

(this is a grid, but there are a lot of versions, it’s like infinite)
But you don’t need to draw them when you have learn the “composition eye”, it’s difficult for me to explain here what I mean, because it’s a work of years and a lot of practice learn the “magic of composition”, even in the most strange confusing drawing there is a baseline grid. 
It’s the key of the graphic art. Your eye can feel every little thing which is crooked or out of the grid, and it will annoy your vision.
It’s all about the “weight” of the things :) black and white, or colors, it doesn’t matter, you have to find the perfect balance. 
Also every artist is different, in the graphic (web design, publishing) you have to be very strong in those rules, but in the artist (I mean painting, drawing, etc) world everyone is different and after you have learned them you can choose to break them. But you need to learn them first :D.

11 months ago · 9 notes

Oh god. 

I have a lots of techniques, but now I can’t say everything, it comes natural for me drawing. 
Usually I proceed this way: sketch > ink > skin tones > clothes > background > details in colors > shadows > second shadows > gradient > lights > again with details > last gradients.
For me the most important things in a drawing are 3: 
Anatomy: first of all, everything of the body must be perfect. I can’t watch a drawing when everything is perfect but hands and feets, I can become very mad ò_ò
Background: If you put your full attention on the characters you need to put the same attention on the background.
Composition: very important, you can be a genius, a golden hand,  but if you haven’t sense of composition you fail.
Also you don’t need to be a good colorist for be a good artist, but if you know your colors gonna KILL your drawing … well … time to pay someone else to color them. Or leave them in black and white, it’s better.

11 months ago · 6 notes

:)

1 year ago · 14 notes

She (she? he?) asked me about the shade and light theory. 
This is a very difficult questions to answer you here, because to learn of draw the shadows need more years of work and a lot of exercise from reality. 
I can try to handle this with some simple drawing, but you need to read more about it, because I can’t explain you all the implications about the shadows, this could take me a lot of work and I haven’t the time, sorry :, but for this theory you can buy many book about, because this is a theory and every book talks about it at the same way. 

Look at the image below, when you draw, you need to choose the angle of the light, for the simple shapes you can track a line from the lights angle and where it touch the object it will tell you where the lights go. You need to pay attention at the perspective of the draw, for this you really need to read a book, there are so many problem to think when you draw the shadows.

Obviously when you draw a person the problems are really hard. 
The only way is draw a lot from reality and see how shadow works -ex. you can turn off the lights in your room and turn on a little lamp to see how it works in the world around.
When you put shadows in a work like this below, you must be have in your skills baggage the knowledge about the shadow theory. A draw like this is shapes, curves, you need to feel the world you draw like the real world, and this required a lot of exercise.
This is my steps: 
1) choose the light angle. 
2) In my mind I can see all the shadows and I KNOW where they are. 
3) Put the first shadows
4) add another shadows for the parts that need it.  

Read this
and even read this

but really, buy a book. 
You can sent me your drawing if you want and I will tell you where’s your mistakes. This can be more handle for me. 
Sorry if I wasn’t more clear but I can’t explain this to you here :) 

1 year ago · 5 notes

Hi, I love you and your awesome questions :) I’m sorry to answer you so late.
Have you ever taken any art/drawing classes?
Yes, I gone to the Artistic High School in Palermo and met the best teachers I ever met in my entire life, there I studied anatomy, portrait, architecture, sculpture. Next I gone to the Accademy of Fine Art in Florence, I studied etching, anatomy again, photography, painting (I’m not very good), I graduated in etching last year. Now I’m at the second years of a private school here in Florence, where I’m studing Animation :) I’m 23 and I study art from 14 old, such a lot of time!
Do you have any advice for begginers?
Mmh, depend how old are you. But I think that say: I like drawing, isn’t enough to do art :) if you wanna do ART you need PASSION, you need HEART, you need to RAWR (yes, rawr) to life. You must be always proud of you, you need to work hard and drawing a lot, REALLY A LOT, sometimes I draw too much that my hand hurt, really. Art is pain and passion. Art is everything you want, if you are young you need to remember this because all the people around you will try to say that Art isn’t good for your life. Maybe it’s true for who don’t believe, but you can do what you want if you trust in you. So draw a lot, take the best from all the artists better than you, and ASK ASK ASK a lot :D read GOOD art books (not book-shit, there are too many -_-) and … draw, just draw :) and RESPECT.
And read books, and open you mind. Always open.
Remember that you not do art only when you draw or painting, you do art every single time of your life.
What does drawing means to you?
:)
Drawing is all my life. Drawing is me, the entire world around me, is all the person I’ve loved in my life, all the girls I’ve fallen in love, is my breath, my meal and my believe. Drawing save my life when I was too young and desperate, when I tried suicide.
What inspires you?
Everything. I found my inspiration in all the world. But I think LOVE is the first. :)  I’m a such romantic girl. Music.
But I love story telling, so I read so much, I write so much, I watch many tvshows, many movies, many cartoons, listen many musics.
What motivates you?
All the shit I’ve received, all the missed love, all the hate.
My dream become bigger every day, and when I was 6 :) I dreamed all the things that I dreaming today, only bigger than first. Today I wanna work in Pixar’s animation Studios.
But everytime I dream I thought about my little tiny face when I was 6, such an alone, lonely and hurt little girl. And I fight for the little tiny me. So I’m going to conquer all :)

You don’t bother me. I love you.

1 year ago · 6 notes

I’m here!

1 year ago · 18 notes