alessandro barbucci

Raffaella Carrà’s tribute drawing

Hello my fantastic patrons.

here goes - a little bit sadly - a step by step process of my tribute drawing to Raffaella Carrà, who recently passed away.

I mostly remember her big smile, and I chose to draw her in her young age, with her 60s style.

The most important thing when creating a drawing is the « point of view ». Here I decided not to create something sad or melancholic, but to focus on the happiness she used to share through her art.

hugs!

Al...

Preview : Raffaella Carrà ‘s tribute

Hello my dear patrons

It’s been sad to hear about showgirl Raffaella Carrà passing by. She was incredibly popular in Italy, a piece of pop culture. I have a lot of childhood memories related to her image, voice and shows. 

I wanted to make a little tribute that I posted on Instagram. In next post I’ll show the process, from anatomical construction to final render.

A.

Step by step: Madonna 2021

Hello my fantastic patrons

I hope your summer is going as fantastic as possible ! I want to share with you the construction steps of this image I did for the Pride Month. It’s a portrait of Madonna in her last appearance in New York City.
I’ll be back very soon with a new post ! Big hugs!

Alessandro

Step by step: Little Snake

Hello, I forgot to share this :) 

she’s one of Ekhö ‘s volume 10 main characters and I think she’s really charming! Here goes the head construction.
Hugs!

Alessandro

Color Process - double poster for "Les Soeurs Grémillet"

Hello back! Here goes the coloring.

As you can see, I played it safe and picked the color palette from my book pages :)

My anthem is "80% confort zone, 20% challenge"

I start putting down the global feeling with a bigh brush, not worrying abour precision. Here I wanted to play between warm bright sunlight and cool dark blue-green shadows.

Once I feel I have it, I start the characters, then I go back on the background on and on. Only at the end I clean up all the mess a...

Preview: coloring process!

Hello everyone! Next post will be a step-by-step process of this illustration's coloring. So stay tuned :)

Alessandro

Step by Step : double promotional poster for "Les Soeurs Grémillet"

Hello my super patrons! I hope you're well in this finally hot June (well, it's HOT here in Barcelona!)

I want to share with you something I did last week: a promotional poster for volume 2 of Grémillet Sisters.

I did itin a rush :D as usual, but I'm kind of satisfied.

I wanted to represent "summer in the countryside". I imagined the cool air under the big trees, and the small animals around the water ponds ... I can't wait to be there :)

The main character of this bo...

Pin-Up : EKHÖ vol. 10

Hello my fantastic patrons, it’s HOT at last (well, here in Spain sure  it is :)

I want to share with you a pin-up series I did to promote Ekhö Mirror World volume 10. Doing a “series” is always a good exercise, for you can use your comfort zone only in the first ones. Then you have to make your neurons to work to find new positions :) 

So choose a subject and let’s go! Here the theme was China.

hugs!

Alessandro

Will MerMay 3 and last

Hello back again! Here goes the last one. You can see how I define the drawing playing with the pression of the hand for giving depth and volume.

I use Staedler ergo soft water coloring pencils for the pigment is very shiny and bright.

As you can see I always use two colors or three to obtain a vibration even if a monochrome drawing.

Did you try to do it?

Alessandro

Will MerMay 2

Hello back! In this video I did a close-up for the face redrawing. The expression of the character is always the MOST important thing to me, so I put a lot of care in it.
Hop, next vidéo sooooon :)

hugs

Alessandro

Will MerMay 1

Hello fantastic Patrons. Here goes the first video, where you can see how I build the character with some simplified anatomy. I changed idea on the right arm pose but I am not sure it was a good thing ... what do you think about?

Next video coming!

Alessandro

Preview: Will on Mermay

Hello my dear patrons! Next post will be the video of the making of this drawing I did for my own very personal MerMay, where I want to transform my little daughters the W.I.T.C.H. heroines in mermaids. 

You will be able to see the way I construct my characters and play with colored pencils for having a vibrant result.

Sooooo stay tuned!

Alessandro

EKHÖ Pin-Up bonus pages - 4

Hello my dear PPatrons

here go the last 2 pages of my Ekhö volume 10 Pin-Ups collection!

I had a lot of fun with the air-dance positions! I used some reference pictures and modified. For the costumes I looked at Cirque du Soleil's costumes for inspiration.

See you soon in next post :) a hug!

Alessandro

EKHÖ Mirror World bonus Pin-Up pages -3

Hey hey

some more pin-up pages :)

as the previous, they're bonus pages for a collector limited edition of Ekhö volume 10. The adventure is set in a fantasy China, so I kept playing with costumes and hairdos.

A.

EKHÖ #10 bonus Pin-Up pages

Hello

here goes some more pages from the bonus part of the collector edition of Ekhö Mirror World vol.10

As you can see it's a simple and effective drawing and watercoloring style I often use for this kind of work. You can find process videos about my pin-up drawing and watercoloring in the previeus posts!

Next, some more pin-up pages :)

Alessandro

EKHÖ vol.10 bonus pages (1)

Hello my dear Patrons, I hope that everyone is well and creative!

As promised, I post here the first part of a special sneak-peek: the bonus pages from EKHÖ Mirror World #10 that I created for a limited de-luxe edition.

They will be printed only in some weeks and in a limited number, so it's a real special preview for you (and I hope no-one will tell the publisher :p )

Every year for this limited edition of my new Ekhö book, I create some pin-ups inspired by the content of...

Preview: Mai Post

Hello m’y fantastica Patrons! In next post I’ll show you the Bonus Pin-Up pages I created for the luxury edition of Ekhö volume 10 ! It’s a preview because the book will be published only in some weeks (we postponed it a lot because of ... well, you know).
Staaaay tuned!

A.

Shadowing

Hello back my fantastic patrons!

Here goes the video of the shadowing of the previous drawing. It’s a simple and effective technique! You can keep the drawing like this, or add some digital colors later, as I showed in a previous post some time ago.

In next post I will show you the pin-up bonus pages for Ekhö volume 10 super limited edition.

see you soon!

A.

Inking process

Hello back! Here goes the video of the inking of this image. It’s a promotional drawing that will be sold (with some others) with the collector edition of Ekhö  volume 10! Talking about this: this edition contains a nice bonus part: 12 pages of special “pin-up” illustrations. I will show you here :) so stay tuned!

A.

Preview: drawing process

Hello m’y dears ones! Next post is a VIDEO where I show the inking and shadowing process of this drawing. Coming soon!

hugs

Alessandro

Preview: Ekhö vol10 new cover

Hello everyone! Yes my work on Ekhö volume 10 is not over yet! A special, deluxe edition is going to be printed soon (Graff éditions) and it needs a cover image.
Here is the full process from the first idea to the final image in BW.

The theme is China. The story is about shaolin monks and chinese circus. I used the firts one for the official cover (that you can find here in my Patreon) so this time I use the second: it’s Circus Time!

I inspired by Cirque du Soleil for...

Taranee’s step by step

Hello my fantastic patrons! Here goes a step by step process about this drawing I did of Taranee Cook , one of the heroines of my W.I.T.C.H. project.

As you can see I start placing the head and trace the Line of Action (very very important to give life to every drawing!)

then I start creating the body volumes using a simplified anatomy like the one they use in the cartoon studios.

The first thing that I detail is always the Face. I need to see the expression of the face to k...

Preview: Taranee ‘s anatomy step by step

Hello dear patrons. This drawing of Taranee had a huge success on my IG page, so I want to show you how I did it step by step. So maybe you can redraw it :) or use some tips on your own art. So stay tuned for next post!

Cover Art: Les Soeurs Grémillet for Spirou Magazine

Hello again my wonderful Patrons.

I want to show you something I did right yesterday: it's a cover illustration for "Le Journal de Spirou" (Spirou Magazine, published by Dupuis in France and Belgium).

I chose to represent the three Grémillet Sisters in a dramatic situation. The inspiration is a scene from the climax of the book (you can see in image 6 the pages that I used as a reference).

As usual for this book, I did the drawing on watercolor paper, with grey watercolors ...

preview: Grémillet Sisters magazine cover

Hey yo! Spring is here , and I can celebrate that I managed in finishing my last book in time!!! It's been crazy, 3 months for doing the job of 6 (or 9!). But the book is done, and will be in bookstores in June as promised!

So, I will show you some previews. Among them, here goes the cover illustration for "Le Journal de Spirou" with my three little sisters in dramatic situation! In next post I'll show the etep-by-step process for doing the drawing and color. See ya there!

A.

Cornelia redraw / step-by-step

Hello my dear patrons!

I show you here the process for drawing a simple but effective pose .

I always start from the “balloon”: I place the head and trace the action line (which means the line that passes through the whole body and makes the pose fluid and natural)

I use a simplified anatomy, mostly inspired by animation characters but a little more detailed.

This is the main difference between my old drawing , very cartoony, and the new one, more “French comics�...

Preview: Cornelia 2021

Hello my dears 

I took some pictures and videos while making this drawing. In the next post I will tell you about my drawing process. Stay tuned!

Alessandro

Step-by-step : Grémillet Sister's cover coloring

Hello my dear Patrons

here goes the steps for the coloring of this image, the cover image of Grémillet Sister's second book.

I already told in a previous post abour the idea: ucing 2 colors, blue and warm yellow, and play with the contrast. The problem in a cover is that it has to be very clear even from distance (you have to iamgine someone entering in the book shop and you book is on a shelf some meters away ... yes, I think about this, I swear!) and very small (for catching th...

Preview : Grémillet Sister's volume 2 cover art

Hello my fantastic Patrons

here it is: the cover of the second volume of Grémillet Sister's adventures (Les Soeurs Grémillet, éditions Dupuis) is finished and being printed. Ouffff! Every cover is like giving birth XD

This is a special preview for the cover will be public only in some weeks (as they told me).

In teh next post I show you the steps of the digital coloring.

See you soon!

A.

“Yes I Can” illustration

Hello everyone there, I hope you are well and safe!

In my previous post I published the step-by-step process for making this illustratio’s drawing. Next one will be about the digital coloring process. So, see you soon!

Alessandro