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Project presentation
Personal project in which I illustrate my favourite songwriters and musicians in my own style. The idea was to illustrate the portraits of the various artists by combining the illustration of the face with some elements (such as objects, animals, instruments, etc.) present in the most significant songs of each of them. So Guccini drinks wine as he says in the song L'avvelenata (I like to drink wine, I like to make a mess) Rino Gaetano plays with the puppets of the crocodile and the doctor (Gianna had a crocodile and a doctor) and so on.
The illustrations are done digitally and I made them with the idea of advertising them on instagram and using them at fairs and events to make myself known.
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Process
I started by choosing the song, usually this is immediate, it is the song I am most attached to or as in this case by Edoardo Bennato it is his most famous song, Il gatto e la volpe. Once I have chosen the song I imagine the pose of the artist and how I can create the interaction between him and the elements I want to illustrate. In this case I imagined Bennato embracing the cat and the fox who are like two puppets, in the centre is the contract that the two want Pinocchio to sign as in the song. In the foreground are the cricket and Pinocchio, tiny as if they were toys. After the draft we move on to inking, then colour, shadows and finally light reflections:
Below is the time lapse video of the making of the illustration:
Illustrations realised - updated June 2024
- Francesco Guccini - L’avvelenata
- Lucio Battisti - Il nastro rosa
- Renato Zero - Il triangolo
- Edoardo Bennato - Il gatto e la volpe
- Angelo Branduardi - Alla fiera dell’est
- Francesco DeGregori - Buonanotte fiorellino
- Vasco Rossi - Roxi bar
- Zucchero - Per colpa di chi?
- Antonello Venditti - Notte prima degli esami
- Nanni Svampa - El minestron
- Gianni Morandi - Fatti mandare dalla mamma a prendere il latte
- Gino Paoli - Sapore di sale
- Vecchioni - Samarcanda
- Domenico Modugno - Nel blu dipinto di blu
- Enzo Jannacci - Ho visto un re
- Rino Gaetano - Gianna
- Eugenio Finardi - Extraterreste
- Giovanni Lindo Ferretti - Io sto bene
- Paolo Conte - La fisarmonica di Stradella
- Franco Battiato - Bandiera bianca
- Adriano Celentano - Azzurro
- Vinicio Capossela - Il paradiso dei calzini
- Raffaella Carrà - Tanti Auguri
- Cochi e Renato - E la vita, la vita
- Lucio Dalla - Caro amico ti scrivo
- Pino Daniele - O’ Scarrafone
- Fabrizio DeAndrè - Se ti tagliassero a pezzetti
- Giorgio Gaber - Lo schampoo
- Ivan Graziani - Monnalisa
- Fiorella Mannoia - Il cielo d’Irlanda
- X-Mary - Le tre bellezze della vita
Contest with prizes find the stickers in Bologna
To further publicise my instagram page in May 2023, I organised a contest with prizes for the city of Bologna. Every day for a week I attached a different stiker to the most popular places in Bologna. Always on instagram I published a story with clues to find them. The goal for those who wanted to participate was to photograph as many as possible and tag me in their stories. The prize for whoever found the most at the end of the week was a t-shirt with one of my illustrations.
These are the stickers made for the contest. These illustrations take up those of the singer-songwriters, images I then post on my instagram page.
At the end of the week, there were three contestants who had found all the hidden stickers, at which point a final round was organised to determine the winner and a golden sticker was made, the first one to find it entitled to the prize.
Angelo Costellini, P.IVA 01768010330