Crashing world

Invitation

My dear pal Andrea Longhi has invited me to participate on an sketchbook exhibition that will take place in Treviso at the end of september.

I'm so honored for having the opportunity os showing my work with some artists I admire very much, and so glad because I will meet all my sketch mates from Bologna again!

TREVISO COMIC BOOK FESTIVAL IS ON TRAVEL

Carnet de Voyage: this is the 7° edition of Treviso Comic Book Festival's theme.

You will find: 9 expositions, a comics market place with editors and authors, many events. Treviso Comic Book Festival is supported by Treviso Municipality, Treviso Province and Treviso Chamber of Commerce.

“Sketched Travels” is the 2010 edition main theme.
There will be an exposition dedicated to “carnet de voyage”.

The most important Italian and European will take part in our event.

You will find: Simo Capecchi, Giancarlo Iliprandi, Giovanni Cocco, Freekhand, Lapin and many more coming from the “Biennale du Carnet de Voyage de Clermont-Ferrand” and from the “Urban Sketchers Italy” movement. There will be many expositions involving carnet de voyage realized by Comic drawer, you'll find art from: Laura Scarpa, Thomas Campi, Stefano Turconi, Massimiliano Frezzato, Davide Toffolo and many others.

Moreover, an Italian Urban Sketchers symposium will take place during the Tvcbf2010.

Many artists are attended in the city.

Other expositions will show the art of comics authors like Lele Vianello and Guido Fuga (Hugo Pratt's colleague), Emile Bravo, Zìzì Collective and many others.

Be there! Treviso is waiting for you on 25^th & 26^th September

Full program is coming soon on www.fumettintv.com/tvcbf2010

My first SketchCrawl in Barcelona

I arrived to Bologna on july 8th 2001 and left it on july 8th 2010, same day, month and figures but since I'm not a cabalist I think its just a curious coincidence (not to mention that my birthday is july 7th, sometimes I receive this big gifts).
After this 9 years season, I moved to Barcelona to start another one. New town, new people, new urban landscapes to draw, new sketchcrawl pals...
These are drawings made on july 31th in Barcelona on my first SketchCrawl. I found a nice group of artists even if many of them were on holiday.

SketchCrawl in Modena

These are drawings made on may 22th in Modena where we made our SketchCrawl. It was a great surprise that we met some kind of motor show everywhere: dozens of old and new cars, bikes, scooters, tractors... As I once told, this is an area of Italy which heart doesn't beat but roar (at 7.000 rpm) so this this simple "regional" show was made all by pieces by Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Ducati, Pagani, Piaggio, Lambretta and so on.
Not so much architecture and city scapes that day, we were too hypnotized!

En español en Urban Sketchers Spain

Barcelona, toccata e fuga

Two weeks ago I had a fast trip to Barcelona. I could spend some nice hours with urban sketchers Samantha Zaza and Lapin. Obviously we spent some of our time together sketching, as they reported here and here.
A memorable day.

En español en Urban Sketchers Spain

Exhibition opening

Some days ago Romina Bruscia, a fellow sketcher, inaugurated in Bologna an exhibition of her works.
I went with some friends and took some sketches.

En español en Urban Sketchers Spain

Radiator

Now that it seems I'll leave this house on the next months I suddenly want to draw every corner.

En español en De vuelta con el cuaderno

Centro di gravità permanente

I was watching a TV report and doodling without a plan. Then the speaker stopped talking and the background music got louder. It was Franco Battiato's 1981 song "Centro di gravità permanente", unforgettable at least in Spain and obviously in Italy. It seemed like if everything started making sense. Or maybe everything was getting a center of gravity.

En español en De vuelta con el cuaderno

Paganello 2010

Paganello is an international event for frisbee lovers. I takes place over the Easter weekend at Rimini beach. Since my nephew played in one of the teams we dropped in on saturday to take a look at the competition and spend the day by the sea.

The sport they play is called beach ultimate, which is the beach variant of ultimate (I've learnt all this things that saturday, and now on the wikipedia). It's some kind of a light version of american football played with a frisbee instead of a ball. I was very funny when the wind was soft and they could make long and precise passes but about noon the wind became strong and the play became very difficult.

Rimini is the city of Fellini's film Amarcord and its because of this that every time the organization made some announce on the PA system it started with the legendary yell "I want a woman!!" taken from the soundtrack.

En español en Urban Sketchers Spain

Mini hard work

I've talked about my work just one time on this blog (actually, I didn't tell anything). I work as illustrator, mainly for advertising and web agencies. I do 95% of my work on a Wacom Cintiq, this means I almost never draw on paper (and maybe can explain how I miss the touch and why I draw sketchbooks).

A couple of weeks ago Leif Peng invited me to Storyboard Central, one of those clubs you're immediately proud to join since you are a fan of almost all the members.

This was my first contribution:

I don't like to work fast. Or since drawing storyboards is always hasty, I'd better say I don't like to work this fast.

I made this job on january 2009. The client was an agency in Milan and the product was Mini. The first call came about 6 hours pm. It was the desperate call from a new client (the very first call, when you know that he's calling you of course because his favorite artist is not available and you say yes to everything).

The brief came in ten minutes and I sent this rough scribbles (everything was made with photoshop on a cintiq):

In half an hour I received an ok with no big corrections and made this clean-up.

I sent it again to the client that answered immediately: no changes!

As I finished a couple of frames I sent them to the client to allow him to work on the presentation. The last two frames were sent about 6 am, about 12 hours after the first contact.

The client was very satisfied of the job (mainly because the idea was approved).

About one month after it was on tv. This is the video:

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