Illustration Gas

IF: Celebrate

2009-02-15T13:27:00.003+01:00

It's a bit late to celebrate Christmas so, let's just celebrate Winter! :)

IF: Time

2009-02-07T12:23:00.000+01:00

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IF: Flawed

2009-01-30T19:26:00.001+01:00

Maybe the Tower of Pisa is just a flawed building...

Gas!!

Pop-Porn show late update!

2009-01-23T20:11:00.000+01:00

Here are some pictures from the Art show I joined a couple of months ago: Pop-Porn Red Passion edition. Take a look at my finished paintings too!

Enjoy!

50x70 cm acrylic on canvas

IF: Climbing

2009-01-23T18:52:00.000+01:00

There's no need for explanation I guess :)

IF: Pale

2009-01-21T20:35:00.000+01:00

Who's paler than a vampire drinking tomato juice?

Art Show: Pop Porn - Red Passion Edition

2008-11-23T23:30:00.000+01:00

Today I'm glad to announce that I've been invited to join a huge Art Show in Rome!

As you can understand by reading the name of the show, the theme is going to be sensuality from a modern and funny point of view.

My art is generally not sensual at all so I'm making a big effort to make something light, easy and cheerful as I usually am!

These are just a few sketches I'm making trying to focus on pin-up girls and 50s style.
Oh, I forgot to mention that the show is going to be in one week, the 30rd of November, and I still have to make two big paintings! I'll let you see how they will come out soon, wish me luck!

Gas!!

IF: Opinion

2008-11-21T19:11:00.001+01:00

Always express your opinion!
This one is dedicated to Roberto Saviano and his book "Gomorra".

IF: Pretend

2008-11-14T20:22:00.001+01:00

Pretending to be someone else is kids' favourite game!

I'm finally updating my blog again! Yeah!

Japan, here I come!

2008-08-01T12:49:00.000+02:00

I can't believe that in 4 days I'll be leaving for Japan!
It's always been my biggest dream! And I'll be ther with my friend Miyuki!!! :)
I really can't wait!!! Maybe I'll be able to post something from there, but I don't know, we'll see!
Gas!!

IF: Canned (music)

2008-07-29T22:20:00.000+02:00

I found this definition of "canned music" as "recorded music" so... This is my interpretation :)
Hope you like it!
Gas!!

Doodling like crazy!

2008-07-28T21:52:00.000+02:00

A few days ago I decided to buy a box of felt-tip pens, like the ones I used to use as a kid at school!
I wanted to feel that sense of freedom of mind that children have when they make their little drawings, so I started to fullfill my sketchbook with little colored guys!
It's so funny!

IF: hoard

2008-06-23T13:14:00.001+02:00

I don't know if this illustration is right with the week topic...
I found a definition of hoard as a "hiding place"... And my bear is hiding!
If It's wrong I hope you'll forgive me ^_^

Gas!!

Update
I changed the illustration a little bit making the fireflies more recognizable.
I actually didn't know if it was a finished work or not but after reading my friend Miyuki's comment I decided to add little wings and lights!
But I must admit the I like the hibernation interpretation too ^___^

And I also want to explain that this one is part of a series of works representing the 5 senses.
This one is Sight!

Gas!!

IF: Worry

2008-05-23T19:15:00.000+02:00

Mommy is not worried that her son is growing roots in front of the TV...
She just keeps on feeding him with fresh water!

This is a school project for a children book about additcions,
hope you like it! :)

Gas!!

Skaters at Threadless

2008-05-23T18:55:00.000+02:00

Hi everybody!
Here I am again after a very busy period!

This time a submitted a new design at Threadless, here it is

Maybe you'll be surprised because I used I quite different style this time!
It's a very sketchy style I've been trying to develope lately, starting from little drawings I made with my left hand! I know, it's weird! XD
Maybe in the future it will become a personal style, who knows...
Here's a little banner, you can vote my design by clicking it!

Gas!!

IF: Fail

2008-04-17T21:20:00.000+02:00

Amy Winehouse: she tried quitting drugs and alcohol but... She failed! ^_^
I know this is quite forced, I just wanted to show you my first try with caricature!
It doesn't really look like the original but I had a lot of fun doing it!

If you want to compare my drawing with the real singer Amy Winehouse, here's a recent picture:

Love ya, Amy!
Gas!!

IF: Heavy

2008-03-14T22:18:00.001+01:00

A heavy Mexican-Taco hat!
But it's getting lighter and lighter! ^_^
Gas!!

Threadless stellar design!

2008-03-05T23:43:00.000+01:00

My design of the rocket kid is up for scoring on Threadless, I think it's quite nice!
Let's keep the finger crossed! ^_^
If you want to vote, do it by clicking on this little banner down there!

IF: Multiple

2008-02-23T14:43:00.001+01:00

The multiple colours of the rainbow! :D

I'm working on this illustration as a T-shirt design I'll probably submit to Threadless.
This is a sort of "retro" style that I'd like to work on more and more in the future.
I love the look and feel of those American 50s cartoons and commercials!

Gas!!

IF: Theory

2008-02-15T21:43:00.001+01:00

This one represents The Golden Compass... Did you read the book or see the movie?
So many beautiful theories, the dust, the Daemons, the Magisterium etc.
I really love this story!
This illustration accompained a little review of the movie.

Gas!!

IF: Blanket

2008-02-04T00:30:00.000+01:00

A heavy blanket to pretect us from our fears ^_^
Just for Illustration Friday

Gas!!

Figure drawings

2008-02-01T23:05:00.000+01:00

I just had my Figure Drawing examination and I realized I havent posted a single figure drawing on my blog! Even if it is a very big part of what I do...
Human figure is a very intresting subject for drawing, so fascinating, I really really love it!
These drawings are charcoal on white paper made in about 15 minutes.

Gas!!

Postcards have arrived!

2008-01-24T19:16:00.001+01:00

I know this may be not interesting at all for you readers but I just wanted to make you part of my little joy!
Today I received the package containing the postcards that I made out of my zinc printings and they're incredibly well done! The print quality is very high and professional and they have a super glossy surface! ^_^

I want to thank Moo.com of UK for their great job!

I'll use this postcards as material for my engraving course exam, I hope it'll be good.

Have fun,
Gas!!

IF: Plain

2008-01-22T00:06:00.000+01:00

A plain wall... with three dots ^_^

This is one of a series of zinc print with a urban style and atmosphere that I'll use to make postcards. I hope I'll have the occasion to show you all of them!

Each one is accompanied by a sentence, this one has "I couldn't find words to tell you that..."
Poor writer! I hope he won't be sad for too long! ^O^

Have fun,
Gas!!

IF: Stitch

2008-01-11T20:03:00.001+01:00

Not that much to explain! ^_^

See full image here

Gas!!

The emperor's new suit - part 3

2008-01-09T13:19:00.001+01:00

The emperor's new suit - part 2

2008-01-07T14:07:00.000+01:00

IF: Little Things

2007-12-07T20:05:00.000+01:00

Golden coins are little things, but these two bad guys look like they just can't wait to steal them from the foolish king! ^o^

This is one of the scenes I made for "The emperor's new suit" by H. C. Andersen.
Here the two fake weavers are convincing the king that they could manufacture the finest cloth to be imagined and invisible to stupid people. Well, if you don't know it, I invite you to read the whole story because it's very funny!

If you want to see a little "making of" this drawing you can go here and here.

In next posts I'll show you the rest of the images from "The emperor's new suit"!

Have Fun,
Gas!!

Workin' hard!

2007-11-27T16:35:00.000+01:00

I think I've never worked so hard in my entire life!
I rarely put my nose out of my room for hours and hours and I spend my whole day curved on a piece of paper... But at the same time I'm having so much fun!
I guess one is very lucky when he works on something he likes so much!

Anyway, these hard weeks are almost over, I'm about to start living a normal life again!

IF: Hats

2007-11-02T23:59:00.000+01:00

So... It passed such a long time since a posted an Illustration Friday entry!
Today I made this very quick skecthes and I realized they were wearing "hats"!
Just in time! ^_^ Well, can a crown be considered an actual hat?

These are studies of characters for an illustration competition, what do you think? Will it work?

^O^ Bye!
Gas!!

Feather Girl printed on Read-My-Hips

2007-10-14T17:07:00.000+02:00

I'm back!
And I'm proud to announce that my design "Feather Girl" (you can see it few posts ago) has been printed by Read-My-Hips!
It is now available on a very cute light purple underwear set!
I'm very excited and onoured and I want to thank Kim for having chosen me! ^_^

This is a little picture

If you want to see more or buy click here
or visit www.read-my-hips.com.

I'm sorry for not having posted anything for such a long time, but I haven't had much time to do that! Anyway, I'm coming back to school in a few days and I'll restart working hard everyday so that I'll have other new and exciting works to show you! ^_^

I hope you'll wait for me! (^O^)/
Thank You!
Gas!!

Leaving comments

2007-07-24T20:05:00.000+02:00

Now everyone can leave a comment on my posts, even those who are not members of Blogger and even a certain japanese friend of mine... You know I'm talking to you! (^o^)/

Threadless design: Rich and famous

2007-07-21T22:16:00.000+02:00

A design I just sent to Threadless for the "Parappa the Rapper loves Threadless" contest.
The theme is "I gotte BELIEVE!!!".
That guy looks like he really want to become rich and famous by doing... nothing! ^_^
Will he realize his dreams?! I hope so! I think he's a nice guy!

Threadless design: ...work of Genius!

2007-07-07T23:01:00.000+02:00

This design is a collaboration of my cousin and me!
She made the original drawing, born as a little ink sketch and I helped her with the computer stuff and the vectorisation on illustrator!
I love it! I think it's great!
If you want you can vote it on Threadless by clicking this little banner down there.

New LaFraise Mad design: Feathers

2007-07-07T22:41:00.001+02:00

This is another design I proposed to LaFraise for the Girls clothing line called LaFraise Mad!
At first I made the pink one but then I tried with a purple underwear, and I think this is a little better! What do you think?

http://www.lafraise.com

1000 visitors!

2007-06-26T19:22:00.000+02:00

My blog just passed 1000 visitors!
I'm so happy! Congratulation to me!
Just kidding! ^_^

IF: Camouflage

2007-06-25T19:37:00.000+02:00

Hi everybody!
It's been quite a while since a posted an illustration at Illustration Friday!
Today I choose this one, it's printed with lynoleum, and I'm not so sure that it is right for the topic!
Anyway, It represent this little boy and his dog dressed up like Harajuku guys, you know those people in Tokyo who likes to dress up like anime characters!
This is part a a children book I made recently!

Have fun!
Gas!

La Fraise: Fiesta Mexicana!

2007-05-09T21:40:00.000+02:00

Just a little crazy design on Mexican theme for LaFraise!
Maybe I should make other version with other solours.. We'll see..
Gas!!

La Fraise: Skull

2007-05-02T21:48:00.000+02:00

This is another picture I made for LaFraise, the T-shirt design site!
The baloon says: "Do not smile please!", because iI think skulls always look like they're laughing!
^_^ Well, I'm just excercising using Illustrator!

IF: Remember

2007-04-26T20:19:00.000+02:00

Today I'm posting an image I made as a modern version of the famous painting "Guernica" by Picasso, to remeber a great tragedy (I bet you all know what happened).
I made a sort of digital-collage using urban style and street art.
I worked so hard to do it, but I had fun too making pictures of my family (and me of course ^_^) to create the stencils!

Illustration Friday: Green

2007-04-09T15:32:00.000+02:00

This is an illustration I made for the site LaFraise, I hope they'll choose it to make a fabulous T-shirt! And I hope you like it too ^_^!
Gas!!

Good news! You can now vote for my design on LaFraise.com!
Just click the link below!

B/W Guy

2007-04-09T14:48:00.000+02:00

So, this is just another acrylic portrait! :)

Painting with acrylics!

2007-03-28T19:44:00.000+02:00

So, today I decided to post a couple of exercises with acrylic I've done some days ago.
I've never used acrylics before so I'm quite satisfied with what I've done, but I hope I will do better in the future.. We'll see ^_^
Maybe next time I'll post another one fo these!

Bye, Gas!!

Printing Test

2007-03-27T21:38:00.000+02:00

This is printing test I made today.
It is one of the illustration for a children book I'm working on and it's engraved on lynoleum.
I decided to use a sort of 50-60's style, a little "hanna & barbera" look!
It a story about Japan, and Tokyo... Can you recognize who's one of the protagonists?!

Bye,
Gas!!

IF: I Spy...

2007-03-27T20:34:00.000+02:00

... You spy, He spies... We're just spying each other everyday!
And that guy looks like he's spying himself! Eh eh!
I just had so much fun doin' it!

Gas!!

IF: Total Beauty

2007-03-22T20:05:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone! It's been a while since I posted something in here!
For this week's topic I decided to choose this little acrilic portrait of Scarlett Johansson because I think right now she's Hollywood's Total Beauty, young, sexy and talented!
Bye, Gas!!

Experiment

2007-01-17T22:48:00.000+01:00

So this is a real experiment!
I just played a lot with a sketch a made few day ago, it was a complete mess with all of the colors expanded casually on the paper. I startet adding some ink and this is the result!
I was quite surprised: it is not so bad! :)
I think I'll try something like that in the future!

What do you think?

P.S. And do you know what my ideograms mean? I do!

IF: '80s-2

2007-01-14T00:43:00.000+01:00

So, here I am again..
This time I decided to "celebrate" an icon of the 80's, Madonna!
And she's adopting a very '80s look right now, so I think she's the perfect subject for this topic!
Gas

Flying Ninja

2007-01-13T19:57:00.000+01:00

This is something I made in 2005.

It is an original character inspired by the famous manga Naruto!

He flyes using his "chakra" to make his giant "shuriken" spin, but I didn't know how to make a "spinning-effect" with photoshop!

The background is a modified picture of some mountains.

I'm quite proud of it!

Illustration Friday: 80's

2007-01-12T20:07:00.000+01:00

Hi everybody!
First of all I want to thank you for visiting my page!
This is the first time I publish an illustration for Illustration Friday, I hope you like it even if it is not so good!
I made this illustration a couple of months ago and I always thought it looked very '80s, so I modified it just a little with photoshop and posted it!

So, I think I should present myself: I'm Gabriele "Gas", I'm 19 and I'm from Rome, Italy (so forgive me for my english!).

Next posts I'll tell more about me!

Have fun,
Gas!!