Hello my dear Patrons. I’m going to post the full videos of the making of this drawing. It’s the promotional drawing I did for my next on-line conference. It will be about anatomy, which explains the creepy effect on the arm :D
stay tunes for the videos!
A.
2020-10-06 07:37:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello m’y dears. You might have noticed it on my IG or FB but, just in case: I’m giving a new masterclass on-line next Wednesday the 7th! It will be in French and I will talk about artistic blocks! I promise I’ll soon do it in English too! If you want to take part just subscribe here:
https://bit.ly/masterclass-alessandro
it’s for free! Q&A at the end so prepare your questions!
hugs
... 2020-10-03 21:50:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Everyone! This year I want to repeat my own personal witchtober, which becomes W.I.T.C.H.tober once again! This means that I dedicate it to my beloved little daughters, the Disney's WITCH guardians of Kandrakar, which I created 20 years ago with my friends Elisabetta Gnone and Barbara Canepa!
I won't do a drawing a day because I am finishing a book right now, so I don't want to promise something that I can't keep. But I'll post regularely drawings of Will, Corneli...
2020-09-29 14:37:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear Patrons. I am looking for an idea for a New Year’s Card for my publisher. The subject is the Grémillet Sisters. I want a night atmosphere full of tiny lights, a dreamy and positive thing. Which one do you like most?
A.
2020-09-29 09:23:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone. I've seen the last image on my step-by-step post has been published vertically, so here is the good one!
Have a nice week my friends
A.
2020-09-22 09:16:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear Patrons. Many of you told me that they liked the perspective tutorial. I know that Perspective is the Nasty Beast first every artist ! So here goes another one. I photographed every step of constructing this ambitious comic panel for you. Here we go:
we’re in the fantasy world of Ekhö, in China. The set is a giant sculpture inspired by the Buddha of Leshan.
I start with a tiny sketch on the script. Here I decide the camera angle.
I create a reference board w...
2020-09-22 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear Patrons
so I showed you how I created the image for my upcoming book`s cover.
Here goes the final result with Nolwenn Lebreton`s fantastic colors!
When I composed the image I was thinking abour a simple, two-toned image, and it's exactly what she did! The yellow she used for Fourmille is called Imparial Yellow. What else for this chinese adventure?
Tip: in our internet era, it's important that the cover images can catch the eye of the viwer when published...
2020-09-18 10:26:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear Patrons, I hope evryone is fine! I'm finally ending the 10th volume of EKHÖ MirrorWorld, and I'm really happy about this achievement! So I want to share with you the process for creating the cover image, from the first idea to the final drawing, hoping as usual that this will be helpful and/or inspiring for you!
Here we go:
The story is set in a fantasy China where the main character, Fourmille, is possessed by the ghost of a shaolin monk. I sketched a first d...
2020-09-14 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone there!
I just did this drawing for the cover of my upcoming book EKHÖ Mirror World t10 and I want to share with you the process. I took the picture of every step so I can show you the full process, from finding the idea to constructing the image in the details.
So stay tuned :)
A.
2020-09-10 14:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there, here I am again :)
As I promised, here the last part of the Lucille illustration process. I put the step-by-step pictures of the drawing and inking and the water coloring steps too.
I hope you’ll find it useful and it will help you create your own characters and illustrations!
Hugs
Alessandro
2020-09-05 09:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello back! Second video is about inking. I use various inking techniques in my work, depending by the style of the project. Here I use a “manga style” inking, that means that I use pigment liners. At the end I use a brush pen to add some more volume and make it more european. I like to mix the styles, make it “hybrid“ , create my own style. So, be free to test, mix, experiment!
A.
2020-09-04 10:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my friends
as I promised, here goes the first video.
Here you can see how I constructed the character. I learned to construct the volumes with a colored pencil when I worked in animation. I like to keep the colored lines visible in this kind of illustration (but I don’t do it in comics)
For the pose I’m totally in my comfort zone :D as I used this dynamic pose many times.
Next: the inking video.
byyye
A.
2020-09-03 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my friends, welcome in this September 2020! I will post in the next hours some videos and pictures about the making of this image. I filmed the drawing and inking so you can see the way I build an image like this, and I took pictures of every watercolor step. So stay tuned :)
A.
2020-09-03 08:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my beautiful Patrons! I’m finally back to camp base (Barcelona) where I have a decent internet connection! And I want to use it for sharing some more videos!
In this one I am sketching down an idea for the cover of the next Ekhö Mirror World book. The adventure is set in a Fantasy China so I wanted to represent the main character, Fourmille, riding à Chinese dragon. Not so original, I know XD but the first idea is the first draft. Rarely it’s the good one.
Anyway, you ...
2020-09-01 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my fantastics
I’m finally back home where I have a good internet connection, so I’ll use to post more videos! YES this will be the Video Month! I want to show you the way I construct an image, from masses to details, hoping that this can be helpful.
First video will be about this cover sketch I did for Ekhö Mirror World volume 10! Stay tuned!
A.
2020-09-01 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Yo my super Patrons. I know I am not posting that much but the spanish Covid crisis got me stucked in my holiday home, wich is cool but I don’t have any internet connection. And I admit I am working in a slightly messy way trying to get rid of all the delay I accumulated during the lockdown... SO:
I often get asked about PERSPECTIVE so I want to show you here how I create a background with a strong perspective.
So the script sais I have to create a scene with Shaolin monks doing...
2020-08-17 13:26:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear Patrons ! I want to share with you this file I did for my on-line classes, a simplified muscles scheme. I hope It will be helpful for you to get more confortable with anatomy. Enjoy!
A.
2020-08-03 11:34:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my summer Patrons. I’m deeply sorry I’ve been away a while. It’s been a crazy period, trying to get back to work with kids at home since March, not an easy task at all!!! In the meanwhile my new book Les Sœurs Grémillet is out in France, Belgium, Spain and Germany and soon in many other countries, and it’s a little success already :)))) everyone is happy about it and we can peacefully work on volume 2.
Here the process for a little watercolor illustration. The char...
2020-07-27 09:29:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my friends
I want to show you a little preview of my next book, Ekhö Mirror World volume 10, that will be published in November.
This new adventure of Fourmille and Yuri is set in China, and I'm having a lot of FUN recreating these shaolin temples etc!
Here you can see my rough page, that is made on A4 paper.
Then I scan it, I correct things on photoshop, change the size and print it on a A3 size.
I do the inking with pens and brushes on a A3 paper, a Cans...
2020-07-10 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello beautiful patrons! I want to share with you the process for this little illustration. The subject is Cassiopée, one of the three Grémillet Sisters, the characters of my new book! I wanted to recreate a sketch I did when I was creating the characters some time ago. I hope you'll like it!
Hasta pronto
Alessandro
2020-07-05 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello back my dear Patrons. Here are the pictures I took while doing this Pin-Up illustration. You can see the pens I use. Watercolors are Schminke, the paper is Canson, A4 250g/m mixed media paper.
I hope this can inspire you and/or be useful :)
hasta pronto!
Alessandro
2020-06-30 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone there, I hope you've had a nice June and will have a fantastic Summer. Lord knows we all need some holidays o____o
I will post tomorrow a step-by-step process for this illustration I did. She's Agape, one of the characters of SKY DOLL , my sci-fi saga I write with Barbara Canepa. Mine are the drawings, while the colors are from Canepa (with Cyril Bertin in the last two books).
So, see you later!
Alessandro
2020-06-29 08:03:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my patrons
my new book "Les soeurs Grémillet" (Grémillet Sisters) , is out in France, Belgium and Spain, and the Italian, German, Norvegian, Danish, English versions (and some more I don't remember) are scheduled later this year. I'm really proud of my new "daughters" :) the series is written with Giovanni Di Gregorio and drawn and colored by me < a BIG work! I never colored myself an entire book, and this is a 70 pages!
I want to share with you the process for creating...
2020-06-20 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, here I am! So, this is one of my favourite EKHÖ covers. But, as I HATE creating cover images, as usual it took a me a lot to decide the right image to use.
The story is about a fancy dinner in Manhattan, expensive wine and a mutant octopuss. Many funny elements to work with!
There are some mermaids too, so in the beginning I tried to use the mermaid scene. But it looked not enough to represent the whole book. So I tried some other things. At the end I chose option C....
2020-06-15 09:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dear patrons, and welcome to the "tourists" ;)
In my next post I will share with you the process for creating this image, that is one of my favourite EKHÖ's cover illustrations! From the firsts -many- sketches to definitive drawing and color. Stay tuned!
A.
2020-06-14 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my friends, June is here and it was time! I share with you the process of this image, a Fourmille Pin-Up. It's been inked with Pigma pens and colored with Schmincke watercolors.
Hugs!
A.
2020-06-07 15:45:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my dears Patrons
I hope you are enjoying your new freedom :) here in Barcelona we're a little "late" , our dear politicians like to keep us under strict control in spite of ALL evidences. We will stay patients a little more ... just a little!
ANYWAY I want to share with you my Sailor Moon redraw illustration :) I had a LOT of fun doing this little drawing. Bunny has been one of my cartoon crushes XD (with Lum and Ariel); It was the "girl power" era, and all ...
2020-05-25 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my Patrons
I did this "dedicace" for a friend, and I wanted to put some quick digital color on it. As you can see the process is very simple. I wanted to give to Fourmille a darker look. It's difficult to alway keep that "yellow" hair, I tried something different. What do you think about it?
Alessandro
2020-05-18 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, here I am. So, I want to show you the process for creating the cover image for the first volume of my comic series EKHÖ Mirror World (written by Christophe Arleston and colored by Nolwenn Lebreton).
Sorry , for some images I only have some low-def files.
It's a very early cover project, I didn't know well the universe and the characters at that point. I wanted to show the main characters AND the universe: a middle-age fastasy-like New York. Maybe I wanted to show too much ...
2020-05-15 11:54:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello my Patrons, and welcome to passers-by! I'm soon posting the process from the first sketch to final color image, through the rough drawing of the separate elements, of this Cover Illustration for EKHÖ Mirror World volume 1.
I found it on my computer and I think it may be interesting to show.
Stay tuned!
A.
2020-05-15 09:59:46 +0000 UTC View Post