EDM assortment (from the last week on the beach)

Every now and then I found a motif for an EDM challenge and here they are, arranged chronologically.

EDM #03 and more

Fabio, my 11 y.o has started today his summer holydays. I drew his backpack yesterday, ready for the last school day of the year.


This is an EDM drawing made before I knew EDM challenges.

Almost automatic pages

These are all pages drawn when I don't know what to draw, or not so concentrated, or talking, or watching tv, the hand goes alone, searching at some moment finds something and takes your attention for a while, then get lost again but keeps on searching...

A little bit of exhibitionism

This is my studio at home. First I used to do my pencil and ink work on paper and then scan it to color in photoshop. About one year ago I gave up to use paper and now I draw almost all my jobs straight on the tablet. It's better for productivity but I miss the touch of the pen and the paper. It's because of this that in the evening I hide the tablet under the white board... and fun starts.


This is my Little Partner (105x190 mm). It goes always with me: in the winter time I can put it in the pocket of my jacket. In the summer it goes on my fanny pack. About a 30% of the pages are my work diary (it's actually Success diary I bought in Munich at Kaut-Bullinger & Co, one of the best stationery stores I've ever known, a paradise for sketch junkies).


This is my Big Partner (150x240 mm). I carry it on my backpack (this means not always but almost always). I made it with the jacket of an old Quo Vadis diary. I fixed the rings (taken from another different old diary) with rivets. I fill both with different kinds of papers according to the technique I want to use. When I need new blank pages I file away the used ones. The holes are made with a Filofax punch.

Mad world

...bright and early for their daily races
going nowhere, going nowhere...

EDM #01, #40 and more

Last week, navigating on the maaaarvelous blog of Suzanne Buchanan,
I discovered Every Day Matters and all this wonderful crazy people for which the essential survival kit is a notebook and a pen. Now I'm another sketch maniac, quite different from the one I used to be.

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Christmas in Munich

I had just forgotten that I made this sketches when we went to Munich for Christmas.

Con quella faccia un po' cosi...

...quell'espressione un po' così
che abbiamo noi che abbiamo visto Genova
che ben sicuri mai non siamo
che quel posto dove andiamo
non c'inghiotte e non torniamo più.
Paolo Conte, Genova per noi

Acuarelas en Boccadasse


And this is me mientras hacía el primer dibujo.
La foto es de Fabio, mi primogénito unigénito.

En Genova hay un montón de gente que habla en cristiano, así que la pintada no es tan extraña. También se puede comer un pescado realmente memorable.

Esta placa en Italia y en italiano es un oxímoron monumental, como tantos de los que se ven por aquí. Hay conceptos que basta decirlos en italiano para que sean un oxímoron: "trasparenza", "stato laico", "comissione indipendente", "bel calcio"...

Por más que estuvimos buscando, no dimos con la ciudad supuestamente más bonita que Genova.

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