A new interview! Thursday, Nov 26 2009

The first of two interviews I did recently for a couple of Chinese magazines. This one is for an online magazine and the whole issue, including my interview, can be downloaded there [the site is of course in Chinese].
Below, a extract from it.

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New Art Thursday, Sep 3 2009

A couple of new illustrations, soon displayed on my website too.

And a preview of ‘High Summer, 1928′ completed. I can’t show it online yet…

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Il buongiorno si vede dal mattino! Sunday, Aug 23 2009

…could be translated into ‘well begun is half done’.

Below a couple of sketches I did as logo for Planet Alice Productions. The sketches were approved but it seems the project will not bring to an end. Weird people you can find online, believe me! I think at this point I could use the drawings for something else…maybe for my ‘Skull’ Series?

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Fan-Group Logo Saturday, Aug 8 2009

A small illustration I did for my Fan Group on Facebook.

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For very nostalgic people …. Monday, Aug 3 2009

I often receive mails and notes from people asking me about my old illustrations. Currently, only a small part of the material I painted in the past years is displayed on my website. I’m that kind of person who gets very easily bored about what she has done so…this is the main reason I usually tend to delete on my online galleries all the illustrations that are a little bit old.
This evening – don’t ask me why – I suddenly decided to post online the most part – not all, anyway ^_^ – of my old stuff. You can now see it on my Flickr gallery.

I should add my fav subjects were always the same…vampires, fairies, angels, fantasy stuff in general, quite boring, really!

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Back from India! Sunday, Aug 2 2009

Quite tired, I will post more soon!

Btw, I got a DD on deviantart and I had been featured as artist of the day on Elfwood…all happened during my visit in India so, I couldn’t write about that before.

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Extract from a never published interview Sunday, Feb 8 2009

The whole interview was of course longer however the missing questions are quite the same you can read in different online interviews I gave in the past.
I suppose you might be interested in reading the following, btw ^_^

-You work with a vivid manga style, why you work this way instead a more classic comic/illustration styles? Why manga work better for you?
I’m basically self-taught. I’ve ‘learned’ how to draw by reading literally tons of comic books and mangas since I was very young. My parents love comics too and they have always encouraged me to read them. My passion for mangas came when I was a teenager and Japanese comic books became popular in Italy. Then, when I was at University I spent almost a year in Tokyo so I had many chances to get in touch directly with the local ‘manga’ circles. I don’t think Japanese comic books work better for me, I only had experienced and had knowledge in them more than other styles. Anyway, recently I’ve directed my attention to different genres of comics, I don’t read mangas so often than in the past…

- What do you think about manga in business? It looks like it grows and grows and don’t let space for other styles… great artist like MOEBIOUS (Jean Geraud) said lot of bad things about manga influence in young artist and readers… What do you think about it?
Saying that manga style is not letting space for different drawing styles is like saying that digital artwork is outclassing traditional one. Quite nonsense in my opinion. In both cases, manga style and digital media, my opinion is they’re just different ways to express yourself artistically. I don’t think they’re better or worst than something else. Personally, I prefer to do not use a computer graphic program to draw and color my illustrations, and my style is strongly influenced by anime for the reason I’ve above mentioned but it’s just a personal choice. Even though MOEBIOUS is a great master and he can practically say anything, I don’t understand why so many established artists are hostile to manga comics. Personally, I don’t like a very realistic style of drawing, that you can see often in American and European comic books, however I think it’s a matter of what I like or dislike and…personal tastes should not be remarkable if we are talking about artistic quality. The problem is only if a comic book is good or not, if the story is interesting or not, if it’s drawn in a good way or not, if it communicates something or not…afterwards, if it’s a manga, a graphic novel or a Franco-Belgian comic well, who cares? ^_^
Finally, it’s my opinion a large variety of different styles and genres are now present in the industry of comic books, mangas are not the only source of inspiration for young cartoonists but one of many. I remember when I was a teen it was really hard to find so many different kind of comics. Both themes and styles were very limited. More than the present. In fact, recently I’ve stopped buying mangas, because at the moment I’m more interested in different techniques and modes of expression and frankly I have no troubles to find good comic books or graphic novels made by young artists who apparently are not influenced by the drawing style of Japanese sequential works.
Of course, if drawing in manga style means to just copy and trace the mode of an artist because is “cool” or it means making bad quality products well, I agree with MOEBIOUS. Otherwise, why being against manga illustrators?

I think in the future I will not give interviews so easily. I’m still waiting for some news about 3 interviews done the last summer…

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