After I published my architecture illustrations here I received a lot of e-mails asking how I did those images. I prepared a tutorial for Smuzi to give you some tips about coloring sketches and adding effects. It’s pretty simple and very useful for architects and designers.
Visit Smuzi to read the tutorial.
Here are a lot of textures from many Italian cities, all in high resolution. Enjoy.
Painting used as a background for a product packaging.
I took this picture at the Acquario di Genova a couple of months ago. A notebook with this image on the cover would be amazing.
My father is drawing again. This is the guy that gave my the inspiration to start drawing and painting when I was just a little boy.
We worked on this together for the cover of a notebook.
A couple of months ago I decided to study more painting techiniques, specially watercolor. My work takes almost all my time, but magically I found a gap to study in January. So I went to Florence to take drawing and painting lessons.
I was selected to study with Roberto Ciabani, from Istituto Galilei. In my first class I told him I had no problems drawing people, but I often got stuck trying to draw buildings and landscapes. So we decided I should practice drawing some architectural things and I started sketching the Duomo.
Well, if you have seen the Duomo you know how detailed and complex it is. What was supposed to be just a study turned out to be an extremely demanding work. After some sketches I came up with this drawing. I didn’t want to use a ruler thus the lines are all crooked and the circles are far from perfect.
After some corrections I transferred the drawing to a watercolor paper. I used a Fabriano paper, incredibly good. Buying paper in Florence was one of my best experiences in Italy. This is the first layer of paint:
