Behind the scenes of the Box Art

Sergio Algozzino has kindly offered me the chance to publish an article on his comic book tutorials site, Kinart.it.
The article offer an exclusive look behind the scenes fo the creation of an illustration for the Four Horsemen/NECA Masters of the Universe ministatues line.
You can read the article by clicking here.

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Sergio Algozzino mi ha gentilemente concesso uno spazio sul sito Kinart.it per pubblicare un succoso sguardo dietro le quinte della realizzazione di una delle sue illustrazioni per le ministatue dei Masters of the Universe ralizzate dai Four Horsemen e dalla NECA. Potete leggere direttamente l'articolo cliccando qui.

He-Man secret files #4: Greetings from Trolla!

With some spare time in my hands, getting the blog updated seemed the right thing to do.
He-Fan are really appreciating the never revelead designs I'm posting here, so I feel so bad to not give them more and more often.
So here I am, hopefully I will post something new once a week, for the next month (but no promises!).

Those two designs had been created specifically for their brief cameo in MVCreations' Masters OF the Universe Vol. 3 #8, the last one on which I also plenned the plot, and beautifully illustrated by Fabio Laguna.
As usual the challenge was to redesign two classic characters, stayign true to their orivial appearances and personality, but making them fit in the new line (so basically: what would Eric Tredaway do with them?).
I was pretty satisfied with the results: Dree-Elle has that exotic flavor to her while our beloved uncle Montork has become more like trollan version of Gandalf, which to me it's really fitting :-D
I hope you enjoy them!
If you're nice, I may start posting the Council of Wisdom members with the next update... ;-)

He-Man secret files #3: Illumina!

Finally!
The original concept for the mysterious new characters supposed to appear in the MVCreations MOTU comics, Illumina!
These are my original sketches for her and her panther, plus the turnaround I did as reference for a custom bust.

He-Man shockwave game!

Probably many of you have already seen this, but that was new to mee and really cool!
I'm postign it here as a reminder ;-)
The site is in Italian but the game and the instructions are in English

He-Man e i Dominatori dell'Universo

Un gioco d'avventura a piattaforma scorrevole, iscpirato alla serie di cartoni animati 'He-man e i dominatori dell'universo', datata ormai 1983.

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Giochi by Flashgames.it

From sketch to colors #1

Just something to keep you guys interested in this "updated-once-a-year" blog...

This a piece I did for Wizard magazine, and it appearead even before first issue of the comic by MVCreations was published.
Mattel really liked the piece but it was printed really small on the magazine.

I thought it was nice to give it some justice posting a step by step progress, from the montage of sketches to the pencils, the final inks and the awesome colors by Val Staples!

Of course, keep in mind this is an early piece, so there are lots of bad things in my anatomy and style, but I thought it was fun piece to share.
I hope you enjoy it!