Tizzy's Sketchbook (update 15/12/10)

[Tizzy]

Hi!
My name is Tiziana, i'm from Italy and i'm 22 years old (:$ )
I was introduced to the forum by my boyfriend, TheGnoll (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56786&page=70) :heart:
I'm posting my work hoping to recieve some comments, constructive crits and feedback :)

ciao

[Tizzy]

more drawing, i'll post again soon :)

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[TheGnoll]

:cheerleader: Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-HA!:cheerleader:

welcome to the forum Tiiiiiiiiiiz!

show 'em what you got! :steph:

ciao!

[Dreamworker]

Welcome on board Tizzy ! Good stuff and pretty nice selection of different styles! I love in particular the cat :steph:
Ciao :hugsmile:

[lefran]

hello! welcome! i like your animal studies- especially the frog and the giant kitty!
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Nice start to a sketchbook, good study work- keep it up and look forward to meeting you on saturday :)

Fran

[Tizzy]

@Gnoll: :heart: :heart: :heart:

@Dreamworker: grazie! il gatto è quello che mi piace meno a dire il vero ^^ ma grazie lo stesso!

@lefran: hey fran! thanks for the comment and the lovely time together in wales!!! see you next year!!

here is what i did during my uk holidays (very inspiring) i will try and color them soon :)

[pencilgeek]

wow no one look at your sketch book?...great sketch book im loving the last pic.

[TheGnoll]

these latest ones look great dear, can't wait to see these colored...go go go Tiiiiiiz! :heart:

ciao!

[pevals]

spacca

il Gattone è bellissimo, anche nuotando nell'aria

mi sa che stai diventando ancora più brava.

[kupocake]

Oh wow your backgrounds rock! I love the non-saturated color schemes, and your lineart is very nice.

[Tizzy]

Hi everybody I'm back!

I'm very sorry for the long absence...i never stopped working but i didn't have a computer nor a scanner for a pretty long time, so now i have to catch up with the updates!

Just to keep you updated, i used to study in fine arts but dropped it cause i wasn't very happy with it, so last year i started attending the Scuola di Comics in Reggio Emilia (italy)...and now I can say it was worth the change, I'm happy with the work my teachers are doing and I enjoing the course.

So here I am with a lot of stuff to post!
Here is my work from the beginning of the course,as usual any comments and crits are welcome!

[Tizzy]

Hi!
These are some of my first attempt with perspective and anatomy...
How hard it is to draw people walking! :\


I chose the last two panels from a comic(I can't remember which)and I copied the perspective scheme,then I tried to redo the scene by myself. I found it very hard and i realized how weak is my sense of space...I think i need to draw from life a lot more!

[Tizzy]

More updates!

[Tizzy]

4 more comic pages! (but still not finished:[)

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2 lay out of pages about boxing...

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..and some(oh my god:nohope:) selfportrait (exept the one on the bottom left corner that should be my mum...)

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[daveneale]

Hey Tiziana, nice studies recently....keep at the old anatomy and it'll all come together. Also-more cute mice are needed ;)

See you next time you guys are over :)

-Dave

[Tizzy]

Thank you Dave!
You are right. I need to keep at the old anatomy an also at every other kind of studies (perspective shading etc...)
I know I'm at the very beginning and the way toward improvement is so long!
But I think I will be able to persevere. :D
(about the cute mice i'll see what I can do...)


Here is the first life drawing lesson we had at school. the male model had the clothes on because we had to focus on the folds.

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more folds

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aging studies

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exercise of gesture from life

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...and from photo ref

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expression studies of the handsome face of my sweetheart! :heart:

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buildings

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other stuff...

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[Tizzy]

Hello there!
Here there are other life drawings i did at school
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and some comic pages lay out

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This page is not mine (alas!) but copied from : "Lex Luthor" of Lee Bermejo...the exercise consist in copying it directly with pen.

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[destinyapocalypse]

wow u have nice jobs i love yours portrait jobs and anatomy jobs cool

[Shard]

bellissimo inizio..sono sicuro che se ne vedranno delle belle in questa zona molto presto..:P continua cosi'!

[Quike Garcia]

Great studies, really..

And I really like your narrative :) keep it up!!

[ICH]

Ehilà Tizzi!
Nice start and, wow, every post looks better than previous, you seem quick to improove your skills, that's great.
The Ryan portrait looks really nice and i like a lot your recent gestures whit simple essential curve strokes.
Keep it up!

[Tizzy]

Cheers guys! your comments are very encouraging me!:sungod:


All western related this time!
The first two environment studies are from the Jodorowsky and Boucq's comic: "Bouncer"


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Some comic pages lay out about how to make coffee


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My Burp!Toy version of "the bad" character of my western pages
(this is for my boyfriend magazine: "Burp!")


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[Tizzy]

Western setting..

[revenebo]

Non sapevo che disegnassi anche tu e che avessi uno sb. Pensavo fossi su CA solo per controllare che LoGnoll non dia troppa confidenza alle sue fan... :tihi:

Translation: I didn't know you had a sb!! There's some great stuff here. So much improvement in anatomy and perspective in just one year...
Edit: and I really like the sketches of buildings.

[ICH]

As i previously said, you improove so fast! The building studies looks gorgeous, so solid and pro. I dig the quick panel studies, seems that you have strong storyboard skills.
The last lady studies are strong! Big step from the previous.
Keep it up Tizzy!

[Tizzy]

revenebo : Ah ah! Hai ragione dovrei! Ne ha così tante!
Really?Said from you sounds like a great compliment, thank you very much! Buildings are the single thing I find most difficoulties with!


ICH : Thank you so much Ich, I'm touched! you know, I do have to improve fast,otherwise how can I hope to reach The Gnoll' skills? don't I?:P

Here we go with some figure studies!
Six comic pages are hopefully also coming when I will finally manage to fill the heviest SB page on CA! :nohope: (I'm sorry about that I would have made more posts with less images. It is hard to download all this stuff!)


Still-life...

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From photo ref...

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From porn (!)...

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From mind...

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Watching ice-skaters on you tube...

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[ICH]

I'm sure you'll leave me shocked one year from now ;-]
A little facetious competition between you and Ryan can give strong results, keep it up!
Your gestures looks really good. Seems that you feel more confort on rapid sketches and a little less when you have many time to spend.
Maybe can be useful deepen the anatomy study of the cleverage area, deltoids, trapezious and so. Just my two cents, anyway.

Taking the references from porn, great idea! I'm going to read up on ;-]
Cheers

[TheGnoll]

bumpity bump- this sketchbook needs to move on to page 2, then you can shock'em all with your awesome new pages!

you're badass!

[maxetormer]

Great book, them figures feel more and more fluid with each update, thanks for sharing,
this one was Hilarius ;) http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=757090&d=1250770366

[Alexandr Pascenko]

damn i think i have seen ryan in here :D.
you both sure could teach me some story telling i really admire the way you are doing this!
keep posting !

[p sage]

Wow. You certainly draw a lot, which is great for improvements!

Already it's clear you're improving in a lot of ways. I'll keep an eye on this one. Keep posting!

[Tizzy]

:mod: YEAH! your comments made me happy!

ICH: I promise I will!
Thank you for that observation I think you are right.
Now I'm trying to better understand proportions then I'll probably deep the study in cleverage areas' anatomy as you advice:sungod:

TheGnoll: :heart:

maxetormer: Hi maxetormer! What an honour! Thank you very much!

Alexandr Pascenko: Aaaaalex!!! Hello there!
I admire your work SO MUCH! :asslick:
Thank you for the kind words as well as I think I'm still far from Ryan skills..maybe you'd better ask him for the storytelling matters (for now!)
I do hope to see you again around here! cheers

p sage: Thank you! I will do my best to deserve your attention!



At last 6 comic pages! (pencils):



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[Tizzy]

Sandman

[TheGnoll]

tizzy! finally you've reached page 2, and its great to see you have posted that sandman too!

go go go fill this page with tons of goodness, you're doing great!

[Tizzy]

Thank you Ssschoffolous!


Some stuff...


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[towy]

solid work, i like really your comic book style keep it up

[Tizzy]

...because color can make the difference

[Tizzy]

update...


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[O.ceania]

I love your porno!:tihi:<3

[ICH]

Hey Tizzy. Love the Pania's story (and love Pania too :-)). Really strong pencils and good storytelling. Romanticona.
Agree whit Oceania, your porn is great ;-]!

[Tizzy]

Hey hello!
Long time has passed since the last post but...
Ok,no excuses, I just couldn't be bothered to scan and adjust pages of sketches that have piled on my desk :D

@O.ceania: Ah ah grazie! Anche se c'è da dire che tu sei meglio di me nel disegnare belle donnine seminude!:er:
@ICH: Hey Ich! Thanks for your support! I think other pages will soon be in process so please go on rooting for me!

Anyway, here are my first attempts at inking with brush and few other things.
This year at school we started to study inking, so after a couple of lessons I can see so many mistakes on my pages that I have hurried to post them before getting too unsatisfied to post them!!:nohope:


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[AustenFM]

Hey there! Cool stuff in here, you don't update too often, but when you do, you're always better than before. Great improvement! Your figures look nice and solid, and your studies are only adding to their accuracy. I really like what I see, my only suggestion right now(since i haven't seen anything current) is work with your line weights to help make your forms pop more. things sometimes look a bit flat.

I'll be waiting for another update, keep it up!

[Tizzy]

Hey AustenFM! Thank you very much for stoppin' by here!:steph:
Yes you are right,I haven't yet getted in the habit of updating regularly, I do hope for me this would be the time I begin doing it!...anyway, I will work with the line weights, thank you for the advice :)

Now after a very long time: some updetes! Enjoy them!




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[ICH]

Solid works Tizzy! Keep it up!

[Tizzy]

Hi Ich! Thank you!:sungod:

Here is a project I did for school and a few other studies.
For this project we had to lay out a story in 20 pages.
The big lines of the plot were in common,but every one had to adapt them in a personal way and create his own characters and world.

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[Tizzy]

Here's the rest of the story...

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[soros]

Wow, I wished I had the time to draw as many sketches as you! The water/underwater picture withe the waves in the comic is very well drawn!

Keep on drawing and posting! (Thanks for visiting my SB!)

[ThomasM]

Tihs sketchbook is awesome - So much hard work has obviously gone into the content is really interesting and varied. Not to mention nicely presented. Keep up the good work and I look forward to coming back to see any new stuff on here!

Tom
p.s. no crits from me as I'm not at this stage of ability

[nickydraws]

Wow, so many studies. You're doing great. I love the Sandman piece.

[Alexandr Pascenko]

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it´s time for ryan to learn how to cook!
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hahahahahhahahah. great stuff panels!

[mike butkus]

Wow! All that hard work is certainly paying off, you have talent and i am looking forward to seeing more of your work.

[Tizzy]

wow wow!

soros : Thank you I will!

ThomasM:You are doing great too! I wish you'll come back :)

Norkagar: oh yes! I'm a fan of the Sandman!

Alexandr Pascenko: Sure! But he's already on the right path with cooking,I can't complain eh eh!

mike butkus: If YOU say I have talent,I must be very very happy. Thank you!


Now,here are some other lay out of the same story

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[Tizzy]

...And the last ones for this project

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[ArteJuan]

love your studies! keep em comming!!

[Corean]

Woah I love your sense of color and use of texture. The animals in post 6 are beautiful~ just wanna hug the kitty. :D Those studies are looking BOSS, by the way. Post 23 (Western setting) looks like it would make a great storybook illustration. All those fine details and clean lines! You are definitely working hard. Keep posting!

[Tizzy]

ArteJuan: Thank you!

coreanseoul: wow thanks! I appreciate the detailed response :sungod: You are doing excellent studies too!



This is Aldo: the protagonist of the story I posted last time:


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And some other studies and posemaniacs:


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[Tizzy]

Some sketches for the environment and the robot of the story we have to complete by the end of the year at school.
Also some rocks studies and a few copies of compositions from Kill Bill.


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[Tizzy]

Some proof for the main characters of the same school assignement


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[ThomasM]

Hey those last few posts are looking really nice - Im very impressed by that huge post of posemaniacs youve done too.. such dedication! The pelvis/rib cage/spine studies are interesting and you are obviously working hard. Keep it up I look forward to more posts (and regular ones!)

[Tizzy]

Thank you ThomasM for the kind words! I'm trying to post more regularly,hope I'll manage to continue like this :)



Heads studies, from mind and from Leyendecker.


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[Klaw]

Tizzy, you are really improving! I never had the patience to do comics, although I always wanted to! That Sandman piece is wonderful: I love the crow/ raven- it's a nice touch. Sometimes it's a small thing that makes a picture great. Great job! :)

[towy]

really pro style, keep up your comic book : )

[Tizzy]

Klaw: Thank you for the compliments! Maybe you should give comics another chance if you always wanted to. Patience is about learning drawing but the more you improve in that the more the rest will be fun instead of patience!

towy: I like the word pro :) Thank you!


Here is an exercise of storyboarding I did from the intro of Sin City


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[sone_one]

hi tizzy, thank you for your constant support in my sketchbook, a comment here is way overdue...

the amount of studies you do is amazing and intimidating for a lazy sod like me. and they are paying off!
the diversity in your work is startling aswell... love the comic pages.

keep up the great work!

[marcotronic]

Wow! Your sketches are amazing! You have a very solid and clean style. Love that!

Marco

[Tizzy]

sone_one: Very encouraging! :muscle: Thanks a lot man!

marcotronic: Thank you Marco!


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[ICH]

Great studies Tizzy!

[Black Spot]

Not much to critique here. Just keep going, but more colour would be nice.

[Tizzy]

ICH: Thank you!

Black Spot: Thanks! I agree and I can't wait to study also color,but for the moment I think I need to concentrate only on pencils for a bit more.
Hopefully next year will' have to do something colored for school,at least it will be a start. :)



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[Black Spot]

I like those different heads of the same guy except that his hairline does sort of move a bit and the third one's nose is a bit short. It's very difficult to make them consistent and you're better than me in that respect.

[cgaddict]

Nice updates! Your figure studies are always very impressive, always full of depth with some great poses. Keep it up!

[Tizzy]

Black Spot: Thank you! You are right, I'm finding consistency pretty hard to achieve

cgaddict: Thanks a lot, glad you appreciate them!




An attempt with black and white on a comic page:


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[Black Spot]

That is a nice panel. Good work.

[Pamz1e]

You are improving so much! I love the dedication to action poses . Are you in school for art

[Blankstate]

Wow. You're really good. You and your friend 'The Knoll' are making me regret that I can't read Italian. That last panel looks great. Oh, and yay for Miller, Rodriguez, and Tarantino.

[Black Spot]

Your comic panels have some wonderful dynamics in them, even the scribbly ones. Who needs to understand the language? I used to read a load of Chinese comics in the 60s, without understanding the language, but the skill of the artist was still able to convey the story. Keep it up.

[Tizzy]

@BlackSpot: Really? You used to read comics in a language you didn't understand! That sounds admirable! ;) Thank you for your constant support,really appreciate it!

@Pamz1e: Thank you! Yes I'm attending a 3 years comic course and I'm enjoying it so far!

@Blankstate: Yay for them!
When I'll make any pages where the story will be a little more interesting than a mere excuse to do some drawing exercise I will translate them in english! ;) Thank you for your kind words!


Lately I have been busy with the last assignment for this year exam: It is a 4 page retrofuturistic story writed by one of our teacher that we had to draw and ink.
Before that we had to make some study for the characters,the veicles and the environment.

Here are the male, female and robot studies but theese will not appear in my story because we exchanged ours with a random class mate and used his with our own style.


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[Creusa]

I b/w son fantastici, che precisione "_"

[Black Spot]

Love the retro feel of the humans.

[marcotronic]

Beautiful updates, Tizzy! I totally love the figures in posting #66!

marco

[Pamz1e]

I think you keep coming along really steadily and you are getting really good! Your figures are great, you try lots of things with them! Like measuring them, gesturing them, contouring them. I like the look of the one at the top, its the opening to sin city right? And the ink illustration of the monkey is my favourite

[Tizzy]

@Creusa: grazie!:bashful:
@Black Spot: Thank you! I'm a bit sad I couln't use them in my pages...the ones I received had no retro feel at all :S
@marcotronic: Thank you Marco!
@Pamz1e: Yes it is :) Your words fill me with joy! I've to work on that type of inking,when it works I like it too. Thank you for your support!

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[Aresa]

Love your work! The comic pages are done so nicely and I love how there is no dialogue at all. You get the emotion very well and you can tell what's going on. Great studies and linework as well. Keep it up! :)

[Metal Fingers]

You're black and white stuff is nice and slick, really great linework!

[Black Spot]

Great steampunk car designs. Shame about the retro characters - their loss.

[The Whistler]

Oh wow! You work so hard, it's amazing! I really love the studies, they're amazingly inspiring. I also love the comics you did in pencil (not that the other one's aren't great, I just like pencil more than ink, it's softer :)). Keep up the great work!

[Tizzy]

Aresa: thank you man! :sungod:

Metal Fingers & Black Spot::bashful: Thank you guys!

The Whistler: That's also because I don't feel very confident at all with ink yet!! :nohope: thank you for the kind words!


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[Black Spot]

I wish architects would make building like that. Cities would be so much more fun.

[Blankstate]

So I've been waiting for at least five whole minutes to see the finished pages. In the meantime I liked your enviroment study so much I colored it in photoshop. It's the first time I tried digitally coloring someone elses linework. Whad'ya think? Maybe I can try some pages sometime.

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[AustenFM]

Awesome work Tizzy! It's really fun to see you and Ryan working on the same projects and how you two interpret the subject matter. My only problem is you two don't update enough, i need good drawings to sustain myself! Hope all is going well, looking forward to your next update, I'm sure you've been up to a lot since mid-july.

[Tizzy]

Looks like I don't have enought consistency with this sketchbook...every time AustenFm has to make me notice that I have disappeared for too long and only then I eventually return! (thank you Austen!)
Sorry! But now here I am and here are the pages I should have posted several months ago!

@Blankstate: Thank you so much for colouring something of mine!! I really appreciate that! And I like the result!

@AustenFM: Hey! Thank you! Yes all is going well and I've been up to a lot since July! The only problem is that I'm scared to write in english so sometimes I have the bad habit of escaping from my SB and I forget to update it for months!
But yes,at least I hope I haven't forgotten how to draw :)

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These are the character studies for another comic project I did for school:

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These are some sketches from a natural museum near where I live and from my holiday on the seaside.

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Some pencil and gesture exercises:

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[Tizzy]

Here are some ink exercise and some sketches from a sketchcrawl in Modena...

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[Tizzy]

These are the lay out and the 8 pages for a project against racism made with the township of Reggio Emilia.
The story was written by my schoolmate Jacopo Mommarelli and will come out this saturday with other short stories about the same theme.

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[Blankstate]

No comments!!! sheesh you people have no taste.

Hey Tizzy! Those new pages are looking really good! That's a nice fisheye effect you did in the first four at top and I like the rocket toting robot guy. The half-tone in the lower pages look good too. Don't have much too crit but that's 'cause you seem to be getting even better at mastering those different perspective angles and mixing up your shots to keep things interesting. Keep at it!

[_Devilry_]

Your comics are looking real good, clean lines and wonderful grasp on perspective! Looking forward to more!

Btw, do you use a lot of references or do you draw it all out of your head, for example the staircase scene in the second to last page?

[Jatari]

wanted to send you some mad props for how much you've improved from your first post and what is great is that we can see your progression! Bravo!

[iven]

Wow I love your stuff pretty good, one thing for the hands, draw also the palm with a
BOX and draw them bigger that forces you to keep the details with the box that will
make you understand the construction much better. I have loads of hand in my SB,
take a look. Very good sketch book you can help me too with other stuff, I just drew
hand like crazy.

[Ariel9]

Il tuo lavoro è stupendo Tizzy, i tuoi sketch mostrano una precisione e una tecnica invidiabili - ma ovviamente c'è poco da invidiare, è chiaro che dietro c'è tantissime dedizione e lavoro.

Scusa se dico poco riguardo la tua arte (ci sono più espressioni meravigliate che parole :P) ma...il fumetto contro il razzismo mi ha veramente scosso. Il tuo è un ottimo lavoro ovviamente, ma per quanto il risultato sia ovviamente compassione per Mohamed e disprezzo per il comportamento pieno di pregiudizio per i nostri connazionali che non dovrebbero lanciare la prima pietra, in realtà la persona più disprezzabile è proprio Karim, immigrato che desidera l'integrazione e quindi viene pressato in una situazione orribile, ma è impossibile provare simpatia per lui. E' un lavoro breve ma molto controverso, e amaro: devo dire che è raro per un lavoro anti-razzista, e sicuramente questo almeno assicura che non sia banale.