September 26, 2009 • 6:22 pm
The idea of painting some illustrations based on popular old folktales came to me when I worked on the images for the ‘Art of Faery’ art-book, some years ago. Firstly, I thought of making illustrations from fairytales most than folktales that usually are bawdy and often violent – not children’s stories actually. In the past I’ve tried to involve other artists in this project. But for several reasons it seems that the idea of a collaborative project isn’t the good one – I mean, people usually stop write back to me as soon as I mention the project ^_________^. Then, I was lucky enough to recently work on similar projects and I put off my plans for awhile.
In these days, I’ve started thinking again of it and finally I’ve decided to start working seriously on my ‘Folk Tales’ project. The first illustrations will be based on some of my favourite tales from the wonderful collection compiled by Italo Calvino. And then…maybe some new original tales could be illustrated! I should say it will be a project I can devote myself to only in my spare time but I think to seriously try to find a publisher for it, finally. That said, if someone is interested in it, don’t hesitate to drop me a line ^_- I need your support!
Filed under: Artwork, Books , FolkTales Project, New art, Projects
It’s some time I don’t update this blog with new artwork: actually I’ve been drawing a lot in the past weeks, and still working on 2/3 big projects in these days. Unfortunately for some reasons I can’t show online what I’m doing …not now, at least. However, for the curious persons, a small preview below ^_^
And, I also updated my flickr account with photos of the illustrations I did for ‘Precious Things’.
Finally, some sketches I did for the Gothages RPG project by demyan. I’m also completing a couple of colored illustrations, probably the most elaborated I’ve done in the past few months!
Filed under: Artwork , Precious Things, New art, Projects, Sketches, Flickr, RPG, Gothages
August 10, 2008 • 9:04 am
As many of you have noticed (and consequently commented on it) I recently started posting again artwork to my online galleries, even the ones I don’t like very much, like for example my deaviantArt gallery ^_^ By reading your recent messages (thank you again for being so lovely!) I’ve realized many thought I stopped drawing for awhile, due to the fact I didn’t update my pages often as in the past. Well, actually I was quite busy recently because of my move to Rome, but believe me, I have not stopped drawing ^_^ On the contrary, I can say that I’ve never drawn so much as in the past year. But, since it was basically work done for the artbook or for some new exciting projects which I hope to tell you more soon, I couldn’t upload the new illustrations online. And, frankly I didn’t and I don’t have time to run my online galleries. I think that now it’s more important to me to focus on my artwork and all these projects than trying to be the coolest one online by having one dozen millions of pagehits on deviantArt.
Probably it’s just me but I think we should propose more ‘admirable’ objects to ourselves both as artists and well…human beings, maybe? And…I’ll never been the coolest, btw ^_^
Again, thank you very much for all your comments and notes…maybe sometime I’ll find the time to write back to anyone (be sure I read all your mails, btw)!
Filed under: Artwork, Ordinary Life , Projects
Nati is a traditional illustrator based in Italy where has lived for most of her life.
She loves travelling, comic books, art museums, prose and cats.
This is her personal blog, where you can read about her latest art activities and projects, view sketches and WIP and comment on her work.
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