31 January 2010

Ostrich design

No splash faucet, conceived specially for houses with many children or without a dish washer. Its design, inspired on the ostrich way of problem solving, tries to avoid the boring job of drying drops over the tiles. I can tell it's 100% efficient on this issue.
This is I.K.E.A. (Idle Klutzy Earthy Artifacts) 7th issue.
Previous issues: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, and #6.
(To be continued).

29 January 2010

Pocket Sketchbook #8

This came always with me between july and october 2009. Almost all sketches where made from life in Porec (Croatia), Casalecchio, Castello d'Argile, Bologna (Italia), Jávea and Valencia (Spain).
Music: Bobby McFerrin (1950) "The 23rd Psalm (dedicated to my mother)",
Bobby McFerrin (Medicine Music, 1998).

23 January 2010

Isn't it nice to be home again?

This is my contribution to Suzanne's japanese Moleskine for the Moly_X_12.
It was the last entry, and after my drawing the moly started its homeward flight, after having traveled around the world for almost 2 years. Maybe because of this or who knows which other reasons I was in a some kind of and-so-it-goes mood when I draw it...

14 January 2010

Barcelona: Parc Güell

26th dec was a great sunny day, we passed the morning at Parc Güell, an amazing place designed by Antoni Gaudí, and one of Barcelona's main appeals.

07 January 2010

Barcelona: in the bar, café, restaurant...

Second round of sketches from my trip to Barcelona over Christmas.
These were made in different bars and cafés.

03 January 2010

19 December 2009

Merry X!

(X=Christmas, Hanukkah or whatever).
Season Greetings! or Happy Holidays! if you prefer.
He hecho también una versión en español...
...e anche un'altra in italiano.
These are all the languages I speak (at the moment, now I'm studying french, maybe next year I'll make one more version).
Merry X to you all!

15 December 2009

Closed books

The last one -so far- of the series of drawings from old doodles (other drawings of this series: "Little houses", "Dirty dishes", "1.001 faces" and "Crowd and snake").

This is the doodle page I improvised while watching TV:
New tracing after scanning the doodles:
From tracing paper to watercolor paper using a light box (actually and x-ray viewer):
Ink linework:

Final result after adding some watercolors:

STATS
Books: so many.
Data: a lot.
Knowledge: some.
Wisdom: uncertain.

Prints on sale here.

12 December 2009

Home sweet home

Sometimes tight deadlines on my work don't allow me to take the time to sketch out from home. When this happens i often feel the need of taking a break of some minutes from drawing storyboards on the tablet and draw some sketches on paper. In such a little time I just can do sone quick takes of my home. Here are a some of them, all made in the last months.

The chair Roberta uses to work on the computer.


An angle of the living room with my favorite armchair.


My bedroom. I had a sudden impulse, so this was the first thing I did that day (apart having breakfast).


My working angle. This was really a quick break from work, I did not even stand up from the chair. There's another view of this here.

05 December 2009

Little houses

Another one of the series of drawings from old doodles (other drawings of this series: "Dirty dishes", "1.001 faces" and "Crowd and snake").

This is the doodle page I improvised while watching TV:
New tracing after scanning the doodles:
Ink linework using a light box.
Final result after adding some watercolors:
STATS
Houses: So many.
Offices: unknown.
Streets: unknown.
People: unknown
Free space: 0.

Prints on sale here.