ScarletGothica and David Messina team strikes again!

Here you are some pages of our last project made togheter, Infestation 2.

We already worked on the very first issue of this amazing series by IDW, passing through the Outbreak series and then coming to this last one, which mood is really in Lovecraft style.

This time we experimented a bit with colors and composition, we both felt in love with the amazing comic Jazz Maynard, by Roger & Raul, so we opted for few and almost flat colors, mostly complementary ones.

We really enjoyed this style, so we're following the same way for Infestation 2 - #2. 

 In this issue we also enjoyed the presence of the amazing Valerio Schiti,

who made the prologue pages, check the b/w versions on his blog. For these pages we opted instead for a more detailed shading style, with a pinch of vintage textures and low-fi style.

Actually this opened some new collaborations with Valerio, don't forget this name! :D

So, for your information, you can find some reviews about this issue:

NEWSARAMA

MULTIVERSITY

HISSTANK

GEEKSOFDOOM

IGN

And of course take a look also at the b/w versions of the same pages on David Messina's post.

The comic is already available on best comic book shop.

Don't miss it and enjoy our work! ^^

PS: A special thanks to my sweet EloElo for helping me with this issue! Love you so...

(click on every thumbnail to enlarge the picture)

David Messina pages:

Valerio Schiti prologue pages:

 2012. Acrylics, colored pencils and whit gouache on watercolor paper.

No ref used.

Commissioned piece.

This is my firts traditional piece of 2012, and as you've probably just read, is a commissioned piece.

The request was about a dark Alice in Wonderland with a keyhole frame all around. I added all other elements as the clock, playing cards, the rabbit to make the composition works better. And this is the final result. Anyway, I'm not completely satisfied with it (there are some mistakes here and there actually), but considering the amount of time I had, it was very funny to come back to my pencils and paper...♥

Anyway, I hope you like!

 Studio sketch:

La Driade - Frozen -

Lineart: Tina Valentino
Colors: ScarletGothica

Collaboration with the amazing Tina Valentino 

Check out her incredible art! The characters belong to her comic book intitled "la Driade"

Available on Amazon

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EDIT: I changed the day!  I 'm not available this Friday so I decided for Sunday, maybe it's better for you too! 

Hello guys,

how have you been? I hope every thing's fine, even if times are really really hard lately...and I'm not only speaking about the financial crisis, but about me, job is driving me crazy...
Anyway, no more sad stuff: I'm going to plan a livestream chat session, where I will paint digitally something (I still have to decide if a brand new piece or to take an old sketch), and chatting in the meanwhile with you. I was thinking about a couple of hours (or a bit more) on next  Sunday afternoon (so I mean the 18 of December), at 16:00 o' clock (GMT +1). I will speak English, Italian, and a bit of Spanish, and I apologize 'till now for my horrible  spoken "whatever"! I just want to choose a day and a "time-scale" good also for my foreign followers, especially American and Asian ones. ^^
You can ask me whatever you want (please, be nice guys!) :D
So...what do you think about it? Do you like the idea? Any suggestions about the day/time/sketch choice/whatever?

Once I decided every detail of it, I'll put my livestream link everywhere in my webs (here too), so stay tuned!


EDIT 2 : This is the picture I'm going to color:

Some news guys...ready?

This is the new INFESTATION series cover

Infestation II

Lineart: David Messina

Inks: Gaetano Carlucci

Colors: me of course!

© IDW 2012

Double Cassandra.

2011. Colored pencil and graphite on paper. No ref used.

...and yes, I've been working on a lot of Lovecraft stuff lately, and this seems to have a weird effect on me...:D

Bye guys! 

Pretty - 2011 - Colored pencils + graphite on sketch paper.

Chubby girls are beatuful! ♥

Done in a moment of relax, after a full time working day, while I was watching TV...just a little breath for me.
No ref used.

 

2011. Colored pencils and graphite on sketch paper. A3 size.

Personal work.

Ref used for her pose (a very nice pic of Eva Green, I don't have the link anymore) :(

Since so many of you have asked it on my other webspaces, the insect is a "spiderfly": half spider, half butterfly. :3

 

Hello guys,

how are you? Hope you're all fine. :) I don't know how's whether anywhere near you but here in Italy summer finally has gone, and a very cold autumn has just started. ♥
Ok it's time for some updates. A good one: you can pre-order Exotique 7, it will be out on November. Take a look to the preview and flip through pages, you will see a lot of amazing art and so many talented friends of mine. Don't miss it. :love:

The other news is about me and my job, and it's nice and bad at the same time. I'm busy. REALLY busy. I mean with comic colouring. Actually I'm more a colorist than an illustrator, and this means I have a monthly paid job (it's like a wage, and that's the good part of the news): all plans for the next months are crazy about that. On the other hand, this means I have no time for anything else: I thought I could have October as a semi-free month  at least , but I have to substitute a colleague whom luckily will be at New York Comicon as artist in the very next weeks. I planned a lot of stuff for this month but all the "things to do" stuff (tutorials, finishing some illustrations I started and never finished because of the other job, starting new stuff, and so on...) have turned into a "wannabe wishlist" now. So, I don't know when I will have enough time to go on with my projects, probably I will update this gallery not very often in the near future. I'm really sorry. In this moment I envy so much all people who can live with their own art. I'll try to draw and exercise myself the same, but I'm afraid this is not going to be that easy, and probably I'll slacken my improvements and skills about my style and this makes me quite sad. But that's not only a matter of drawings and paintings, a lot of other stuff concerning my job as illustrator (as make my own shop, find an agency, re-built my website, and so on) will be postponed in an undefined moment. If I will have some free days I thought about a virtual meeting/tutorial on livestream TV, but I can't plan anything for the moment, anyway I'll keep you updated about that on my webs (also on my DA journal of course).
Well, I don't want to complaining a lot about that or find many "excuses" about it (at least I'm working on something related to my job as well, I'm not doing stuff I really don't like just because of money), I know it's my own fault: I'm not able to organize myself differently, I feel insecure about everything, I'm not brave enough perhaps and I choose the easiest way. But I just wanted to share my thoughts and my current situation, because my gallery is going to be on hiatus for an undefined time. Thanks a lot for your comprehension and for your lovely daily support, Scarlet loves you. ^^

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Bye!