Another project delivered! These are some designs I made for surf and snowboard companies. They wanted something raw and full of textures.
I used mostly pencil, pens and watercolor. Click the images to see the gallery.
Here are some new illustrations. They are going to be used on t-shirts for winter 2011.
Painting used as a background for a product packaging.
More studies from the past. If I kept them all I would have a room full of paper.
This is all I got from a terrible paper for watercolor. If there is something that botters me is bad paper. Even for studying, cheap paper is always crap.
Things are getting better as the semester ends. I’m finally having more time to dedicate to my personal projects! I’m working on a game console concept and – finally – studying music theory again. I will keep the blog updated.
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:
