Some more recent art and sketches.
The first one is a promotional piece for Nerd Anti Zombie, the second novel by my dear friend Francesco Nucera.
The brief was to make an illustration that'll be printed on a t-shirt, featuring Bill Gates attacked by zombie Steve Jobs coming out of his grave.
My first sketches had a different layout
but upon seeng them, Francesco suggested to change the design in order to make it look like the cover of the first issue of Dylan Dog, an incredibly popular horror comic book in Italy.
This choice, perfectly understandable because it would add an additional intertextual reference and therefore reinforce the visual joke, posed a problem: having two real people in the picture required that I showed both faces, yet I needed Jobs to be the prominent zombie in the composition, if not the only one.
This meant I could not place him behind Bill Gates (it wouldn't be as menacing if relegated to the background) nor I could place him in front of him but also turned towards him.
I resolved that by making Jobs crawl out of his grave but unaware of the presence of his former Sylicon Valley competitor.
Bill Gates' pose, the tree and moon in the background are swiped in order to make the image a direct parody of the orignal. Hopefully Claudio Villa won't mind.
To complete the joke, I've colored the piece to replicate the original cover and added a logo in the same font.
And here you can see the finished product:
The following piece is a caricature of Italo Calvino
created as promotional art for an event.. I'm happy with the style, but I don't think I totally nailed the likeness...
I think I've done better with these other caricatures
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| Danny Elfman |
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| Ennio Morricone |
And since I really took a liking for caricatures people, I gave a shot to a couple of other movie-people
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| Steven Spielberg |
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| Alexandre Desplat |
These last two being only sketches at this point.
The following is my most recent caricature, featuring composers/podcasters MArty and Will Brueggeman from the Underscore Podcast.
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