alessandro barbucci

CHARACTER DESIGN // the "potato" training

Hello my dear Patrons

the editing of my on-line classes goes on, hopefully I will finish it this week! I miss ( a little) my comics, I've spent weeks editing videos and I prefere a LOT spending time with my characters :)

I want to share with you one of the exercises I did in the course, the old-but-always-good "potato" exercise. It means, drawing some weird shapes loosely, like some deformed potatoes, and then go back and look for the characters "hidden" inside the shapes. It's us...

PREVIEW // On-Line Classes

Hello my dear patrons. I'm working like CRAZY on my on-line classes : re-filming here and there, editing, sound .... I'm almost there! It's a project I've been working on during more then 2 years. I refused to do it for a huge on-line classes company for I wanted to do it my style, with no limitations. So I'm self-producing it, and it's a LOT of work :D but it's WORTH it because the result is exactly what I wanted.

I want to share with you some pics from the set. I will tell you more so...

STEP by STEP // Thorn

Hello hello, good Sunday everyone!

Here you can see the process for my Thorn hommage. I tried to use Paletton. I just wanted the insect to be light green, so I looked for the colors starting from there. It's been funny :) I think I'll try to use it more.

Have a nice day! Here in Barcelona the sun is shining and we can finally go out for a walk in the parks (which haven't been touched since Mars, so you feel like you're in open country :) wild grass and flowers out of control, sooo...

ARTvsARTIST 2020 //Preview

Hello again! I want to share with you the first of my ArtVsArtist2020, which I dedicate to my lovely Fourmille in her Pin-Up version. Nice contrast with the ugly stuff in the middle XD

More on the run ( ... I hope... this confinement life is much complicated than I expected o___o)

A.

SIX FANARTS // Bones' THORN

Hello fantastic Patrons

I slowly go back to my 6 Fanarts that you suggested me :)

Here is THORN from BONE comic saga. Bone is one of my favourite readings EVER. The perfect exemple of how far you can go with this media.  Author Jeff Smith puts together humour, drama, fantasy, fairy tale ... you laugh and you cry and you get your hair straight on your head sometimes ... if you don't know this fantastic piece of graphic literature, you HAVE to discover it!

So THANK you fo...

SKETCHBOOK TOUR // SKY DOLL origins

Hello my friends, I hope that everyone is well and not too bored or broken :/ this thing is getting long but we can see some light at the end.

As I promised, here I finally post my SkyDoll Sketchbook Tour , you-huu! I took me days to edit it and still I couldn't crop the black border XD my god! Anyway I'm changing my phone and the new one will have some cool editing apps I will test.

SO, I have this sketchbook that contains some of the Very Firsts sketches of SkyDoll, my Sci-Fi sa...

BODY SHAPE CHART //

Hello fantastic Patrons

I hope you are well and not toooo bored o_o thing lockdown thing is getting long. Let's concentrate on deers in the streets and dolphins in the ports and stay positive!

I want to share with you this Body Shape Chart I did some days ago. You can see how I modify my "puppet" to different characters, depending by age or shape.

The most difficult has beel the Teen bodyshape o____o I've worked so much to get the right proportions, nor children neither youn...

Masterclass TONIGHT :)

Hello dear Patrons!

I put up an on-line Masterclass tonight! It will be in FRENCH for it's the first time and my team (yes, it's not easy to organise something like this) is french , but I plan doing more in other langages.

If you speack french pass by!

It's at 20h ( 8pm center european time)

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SIX FAN ARTS // Nairobi!

Yo! Here goes #3. Thanx for nomining Nairobi, absolutely my favourite character from "La casa de papel". Raaah I'm stuck at season 2 'cause I have no time for watching the new seasons ;_____; 

Hop see ya with the next one? Who will he/she be??? Hu hu huu...

SIX FANARTS // Winner #2 : Edith Piaf

Thanks for putting this incredible woman an artist in the list, it's been a pleasure dedicate her a little of time (and made want to see the movie again :)

Hop, to the next one!

A.

SIX FAN ARTS // and the Winners are ...

Thank you a lot grls & guys, I received a LOT of fantastic suggestions :)

Some were stunning, someone got exactly my favourite characters, some others where very far so I choosed them as a challange !

I will post them as soon as I make them, and keep the surprise!

So, #1 is: Oscar! From Versailles No Bara (Lady oscar, La rose de Versailles, it depends by translation) One of my favourite characters ever! I have the whole...

SIX FAN ARTS! // Patrons Only Poll

Hello my dear Patrons

sorry I've been away some days! I hope everyone is well and healthy. 

I dedicated some days to organize and celebrate my kid's birthday. I've been really sad to have him confined for his 6th birthday o___o so I organized a thousand games and decoration, I did a huge Mario Kart themed cake XD at the end I did more then we could do in just one day!

My kid had a good time and, as he noticed me and my girlfriend were a little sad sometimes, he told us ...

STEP-BY-STEP // LiliBoy Illustration

Hello my dear patrons. here we go with the process of this image. It's the same for some previus images I did with the same technique: sketch on a sketchbook, taking a photo with my mobile, pass the photo on the computer and digital coloring.

The fun thing here is that I decide to make this image in a rush: the french band Deluxe , which I love, announced a live mini-concert on IGlive. So I did this image in a rush just for celebrating it. The singer Liliboy and the members of the band ...

PREVIEW // STEP-BY-STEP LiliBoy Illustration

Hello my dear confined friends. I hope you found your own rythm in this new life we are living. Seems like it's going to be much longer than we expected o____o 

In the weirdiness of this all, some nice things happen: I discovered some months ago a french band called DELUXE and I fell in love with their music, style, ideas ... so I wanted to paint a little "hommage" to them, especially the charismatic singer Liliboy. I posted it on the IG and ... they reacted immedi...

STEP BY STEP // "Draw this in your style" image

Hello hello! Here we are at home playing with imaginary worlds and characters o___o I hope you are well and safe , my friends!

SO I didn't resist to this "draw this in your style" challenge for I like the work of Pernille Orum (Pernilleoerum on Instagram) and I loved the design of this characters: the attitude, the hair and the colors ... so strong!

I did it in the style I use for my pin-ups.

I started constructing the chara...

PREVIEW // step-by-step process

Hello beautiful people. It seems like I can't stay away from you XD 

Today I want to share with you this thing I did: a -late- "Draw This in Your Style" image for IG. I never did it before but I couldn't resist this fantastic image from Pernille Orun! I'm going to post the detailed process, especially constructing anatomically the character. Stay Tuned!

A.

APRIL PREVIEW // sketchbook tour, anatomy, Q&A ...

Hello fantastic Patrons. I know it's hard times and confinement has just begin o_____o so I want to invest more time on this Patreon page for entertaining you a little, teach something if I can, get in contact with you! This is what I am planning for April:

-EXCLUSIVE SKY DOLL SKETCHBOOK TOUR: I still have all the research, sketches and notes I took while creating SkyDoll, my Sci-Fi saga you may already know. I'll open ...

STEP BY STEP // #ToonMe picture

Hello my Patrons. I know I'm more then late with this #ToonMe thing XD but it was in my ToDo list, so here it is! I recorded every step so I can show you here. THANX again for your support here on Patreon. This is what gives me the occasion of doing things like this.
SO: I chose a picture I had on my phone, a picture I took last summer at a photographic exposition, a silly selfie like many others :D it inspired me this ToonMe image.
Th...

STEP BY STEP // creating a promotional image

Welcome back my wonderful Patrons. i hope you're doing well, whether you're in confinement or not (if not, you'll be in confinement soon o__o)

Luckily my work goes on, so I want to share with you the last thing I did: it's a door sign that will be given as a promotional gift for my new book "Les Soeurs Grémillets", out in August if everything goes well.

SO: the editor gave me the "gabarit", the size and shape of the door sign. Th...

PREVIEW // Step by step creation of a commercial image

Hello my dears Patrons, and welcome to whose who are passing by! I hope you are going well in these crazy crazy times. The work of artists goes on, luckily and hopefully. My new book "Les Soeurs Grémillet" has been postponed to August (crossing fingers o__o) so we're inventing a lot of stuff to keep the project alive until then. One little thing they asked me is to create a new image for a door sign (like the "do not disturb" ones you can fi...

STEP BY STEP // Irma Kiss anatomy process

Yo! Here we go, I want to show you how I construct some simple but very effective image like this!

I don't really have a master in anatomy, all I know about it I learnt it just drawing, working, copying other artists etc. The thing that interests me in anatomy is how to use it to make a character more expressive, alive, sensual ... connecting with the audience is my ONLY interest, so I use all I have for getting this target. So, don't feel scare...