Overview
Hello! I'm a freelance illustrator based in Italy. I love to illustrate playful scenes with several characters and lettering pieces. I deal with book projects, and design, I love beauty in all areas, I can develop picture book projects. I am a children's and young adult illustrator. Each new project is a challenge and I approach it with professionalism and enthusiasm, I enjoy thinking out of the box, to surprise with funny, surreal and always new illustrations. I welcome feedback and constructive criticism, and I gladly accept feedback and constructive criticism, I'm committed to communicating with my clients throughout the design process and within deadlines. My technique combines collage, pencil, acrylic gouache on paper, and then, I complete all illustrations in digital postproduction using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
Feel free to contact me if you think my profile might be right for you. I look forward to hearing your stories!
Services
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Languages
Work experience
Self-employed
As a freelance illustrator I work on editorial projects, in particular picture books, fiction and non-fiction. I collaborate with publishers and writers, who give me a text on which I set the storyboard to the agreed number of pages, format, series. I do the breakdown of the text on pages and after the publisher's review, I proceed to colour proofing, and then the final illustrations, both the inside pages and the cover. When required, I also do the graphic layout.
Sometimes I also have commissions as a graphic and illustrator designer at the same time, in which case I do branding, infographics, packaging, illustration and graphics for magazines, advertising, art exhibitions, textile design.
LUDO-LABO
Illustrator at Ludo-Labo board game design studio, in Modena, Italy. My role is to design and produce the illustrations of the games I am assigned, consisting of the board, game tokens, cards, box and booklet.
Toi Art Gallery
Illustrator at the US online gallery Toi Art Gallery.
A curated collection of museum-quality limited edition prints by talented artists from around the world. I, like the gallery's other illustrators, periodically submit new illustrations to Karina, the owner and art-director, which she selects for the gallery.
Scuola Internazionale di Comics
The International School of Comics is a university with many locations in Italy. I teach at the Reggio Emilia site, in the north, where I have three classes in the three-year course and one in the Master's postgraduate course. At the three-year course I teach:
-children's Illustration, a course where students refine their personal style and approach book illustration projects.
- Traditional mixed media painting techniques, students paint using techniques such as acrylic, gouache, coloured pencils, china ink and collage.
- Digital illustration, where students learn how to use the Adobe Suite for illustration.
- Master's Degree in Editorial Illustration, where I teach how to design and produce an illustrated book in its entirety, from the idea, storyboard, character design, to the final illustrations, interior and cover.
studio KGL
My role in the studio was Children's Clothing fashion Designer. I was in charge of the illustrated and graphic part of the clothing, from the choice of the illustrated subject, to the colour palette to be used for the illustrations for t-shirts, sweatshirts, shirts, trousers and coat.
From the mood boards I developed all the illustrations for the collection, including the fabric patterns.
Portfolio
