Bruno Lubrano

2012-02-09T14:25:00.001+01:00

Meanwhile...
I like this word that from inside a little rectangle in a picture of comic book has the strong power to remind us that not only is in our sight happens!
So, sketches from 'Hazel Phantasmagoria' for my new portfolio go on.
Meanwhile... I have started a reviewed dummy of my never end children's picture book.

Title, absolutely provisional, is 'Francesco, get yourself ready. It is time to sleep.', and these are the first two spread.

2012-02-05T19:07:00.000+01:00

Here I am in the middle of my pencil work from 'Hazel's Phantasmagoria'.
Very soon, I hope, it will be time to complete with colours.

To get better consistence among sketches and to keep picture tale flowing, I have considered as a good thing to keep same characters size in every draw, and it is very small compared with my usual standards.

One more challange is to draw as much as possible ground or floor as if they are looked at from a not too much high parallel point of view. Very interesting and funny, indeed!

That's all.

2012-01-24T14:52:00.001+01:00

The way some days are shorter than others to make everything you should do, is very strange indeed!
Lately most of my day are very short!

Anyway, Hazel's adventures in rude Aunt's country house go on and so my work does.

I'm quite satisfy about what I did so far even if some corrections will be inevitable;floors and furnitures, for example, are described filthier than what I sketched!

But on the whole, I think and hope, they look good!

2012-01-12T15:57:00.000+01:00

Character design is one of most satisfying part in building a picture. Sometime character is caught at once, some time more schetches are needed!

I'm often the only one who can understand what lines mean in my composition sketches. They are very small!

These were done on a Canson A5 90g sketchpad

And then the final sketch. After some correction I'll use it for final inking and coloring work.

This is for sale. Please e-mail me if you are interested.

Pilot H-325 mechanical pencils 0,5mm and Staedtler Mars Micro Carbon Pencil Leads 2B and H on A4 paper

Hazel's Phantasmagoria

2012-01-10T16:00:00.000+01:00

'Hazel's Phantasmagoria' by Leander Deeny is definitely a good book to spend some of your free time. Even if you are no more a young adult like me!

I found the italian version in a big store. Actually I was there just to buy some food but the cover by David Roberts attracted my attention and so the book took place in my basket with sausages, vegetables, pasta and wine.

Anyway, a pleasant book can often be a good help to design new picture especially if, like me, you need or simply wish to renew your portfolio.
Pilot H-325 mechanical pencils 0,5mm and Staedtler Mars Micro Carbon Pencil Leads 2B and H on A4 paper

The picture is for sale. Please e-mail me if you are interested.

A Toy for Christmas

2011-03-11T15:05:00.002+01:00

This is the way I imagined the shop where the Gianni Rodari tale "A Toy for Christmas" starts.

The journal of Riccardo - New Series

2011-03-01T21:49:00.000+01:00

Very little time to made it this afternoon!!

Ink and watercolour in Daler Rowney Large Sketchbook

The journal of Riccardo - New Series

2011-02-22T15:35:00.002+01:00

The journal of Riccardo is back!

Ink and watercolour on Daler Rowney Sketchbook

It's time to sleep.

2011-02-20T18:17:00.001+01:00

One of the illustration for my 'It's time to sleep'.

2011-02-16T15:01:00.004+01:00

One day a man wakes up, go to the bath-room, looks at himself in the mirror and yells: his nose is not on its place. His face is flat! ('The escaping nose' by Gianni Rodari)
Odd situation, isn't it?

Meet Francesco

2011-02-14T15:32:00.001+01:00

Francesco is my favourite character I everytime call for help when I need to visualize on paper any image for my children's book work. He always is kindly free even if he knows he won't the hero of the story!

2010-12-24T23:03:00.001+01:00

I wish you a very Merry Christmas!

Another one from a Gianni Rodari tale

2010-03-03T10:03:00.002+01:00

'The blue traffic lights' is the tale by G.Rodari from which I designed the illustration.

More from Gianni Rodari's tales

2010-03-02T14:58:00.003+01:00

Here are two more illustrations I'm working on for my exhibition starting next March 19. The previous one is from 'The path who led nowhere', the next one is from 'Pulcinella's flight'.

'It's time to sleep'

2010-02-27T18:31:00.003+01:00

This is page 5 picture of my unpublished 'It's time to sleep'.
I' think I'll use this one too for the exhibition, which start on March 19, of some of my Children's illustrations.

From a Gianni Rodari's tale

2010-02-25T18:07:00.003+01:00

From 'The Bells War' by G. Rodari
This is the second work I made from this tale. The first was posted on November 23, 2009.
All these illustrations are made for an exhibition of my children's works, mainly about Gianni Rodari tales., that starts on March 19 at Libreria Trame in Bologna.

From a Gianni Rodari's tale

2010-02-24T18:12:00.002+01:00

From 'A lift to the stars' by G. Rodari

From a Gianni Rodari's tale

2010-02-23T17:22:00.004+01:00

From 'When you play with a walking stick' by G. Rodari

From a Gianni Rodari's tale

2010-02-21T17:19:00.004+01:00

This is from Gianni Rodari's "The comic book mouse"

The journal of Riccardo

2010-02-07T13:06:00.001+01:00

The journal of Riccardo

2010-02-03T19:31:00.001+01:00

The journal of Riccardo

2010-01-31T16:07:00.001+01:00

Monster #6, of course

The journal of Riccardo

2010-01-29T16:49:00.003+01:00

A lot late, but anyway...
Maybe it fits with near at hand carnival!

December 2009

2009-12-03T14:50:00.006+01:00

I needed something to write my december's commitments so I made this. Feel free to print it if you like. It'll be a great pleasure for me to know that it is useful to you too.

Here is the original illustration.

From 'Sulla spiaggia di Ostia' by Gianni Rodari

2009-11-26T14:20:00.005+01:00

As promised some days ago, here is the final coloured version of my 13th november post made for the Gianni Rodari celebratory contest.

From 'La guerra delle campane' by Gianni Rodari

2009-11-23T18:21:00.007+01:00

A new illustration made for the Gianni Rodari's celebratory contest - http://www.bolognachildrensbookfair.com/bcbf09_internal1.asp?m=107&l=2&a=&ma=366&c=4114&p=1072009 -. This one is from a short tale titled 'La guerra delle campane'.

Gianni Rodari's celebratory contest

2009-11-13T12:02:00.005+01:00

This is one of the illustration I'm working on for a celebratory contest promoted by Bologna Children's Book Fair about the work of Gianni Rodari who was the most important writer of Italian children's literature. I'll soon post the coloured version.
If you are interested to the competition here's the link: http://www.bolognachildrensbookfair.com/bcbf09_internal1.asp?m=107&l=2&a=&ma=366&c=4114&p=1072009

The journal of Riccardo

2009-11-09T17:50:00.003+01:00

What a night!

The journal of Riccardo

2009-11-06T18:56:00.003+01:00

Just Monster #5

It was my first engagement

2009-11-05T15:16:00.011+01:00

This is the cover I made for my first engagement many years ago; a French grammar practice book for Italian school. Besides the cover I also made about 2.000 little coloured illustrations.
Each chapter begins with one or two comic style page.

The Journal of Riccardo

2009-11-01T17:08:00.003+01:00

Is there anything better than watching TV on Sunday mornings?
And still in your pyjamas!
Sunday, 11th October

The Wizard of Oz

2009-10-30T15:32:00.007+01:00

I made this many years ago for an Italian translation now out of print of 'The Wizard of Oz'. Maybe it was the first novel I illustrated

The journal of Riccardo

2009-10-28T18:05:00.003+01:00

Thanks to my arms transformation power it was too easy to accomplish the mission and defeat the mean enemy agent.

The journal of Riccardo.

2009-10-26T15:41:00.006+01:00

From Monday to Friday is school time. Sometimes the School Bus come a bit or a lot late.

The journal of Riccardo.

2009-10-23T14:59:00.007+02:00

Monster #4

The journal of Riccardo.

2009-10-22T15:49:00.005+02:00

14th August 2009. Le Marze Beach. Tuscany.
This tot was very angry with his parents (I don't know the reason).
His parents and his brother totally ignoring him eat their sandwiches.

The journal of Riccardo.

2009-10-21T14:17:00.004+02:00

Amazing things happens during breakfast time!...

The journal of Riccardo.

2009-10-12T11:23:00.017+02:00

Homework.
Sunday, 5th October

The journal of Riccardo.

2009-09-24T10:47:00.005+02:00

The journal of Riccardo.

2009-09-10T16:21:00.008+02:00

Monsters #3

2009-08-06T09:54:00.005+02:00

I'll be back in 20 days....

From my "Francesco and Monster the monster"

2009-08-02T17:21:00.007+02:00

An early version of page 8 - "...but it's difficult to keep your eyes open after a whole day spent playing..."

Monsters #2

2009-03-24T16:10:00.011+01:00

Althoug a delay of some days (sorry), here is the second monster of the series I decided to draw and present to your attention every fifteen days.
It (he? she?) is very monstrous in my opinion, at least for what concerns its (his? hers?) physical look!
I think the first one was nicer, isn't it (he? she?)

Mom and Dad in the evening

2009-03-13T15:41:00.005+01:00

Another picture from my past work 'What if a ten years child get a camera?'
Here he catches, beautifully in my opinion, their parents come back home at the end of a working day.

Monsters #1

2009-03-05T17:41:00.008+01:00

Maybe I did not have a good sleep last night and that was... a success!
When I woke up in the morning I first drew a monster, then I tought that drawing monsters could be a good habit. Here is the first.

Sunday morning. Mom

2009-03-02T18:09:00.005+01:00

I did this watercolour several years ago. "What if a ten years child get a camera?" I wondered. So I began imagine the pictures he could get. This is the first of a short series and - 'Sunday morning. Mom'- is the title.

Uncle #3

2009-02-28T00:07:00.006+01:00

...although it was very cold, Uncle and Nephew got out for an evening fly.

Children #7

2009-02-26T17:16:00.005+01:00

The complete gang on a freezy, snowy day!

Children # 6

2009-02-10T22:58:00.002+01:00

Uncle #2

2009-01-14T17:31:00.006+01:00

Early sketches.

Uncle #1 - HELP!

2009-01-09T21:53:00.010+01:00

This is Uncle! He'll certainly be, but you know, when a story is planned, it's not unusual to change your mind, the main character of the children's book I'm going to carry out in a very near future.
Uncles are almost always bad, wicked, and trecherous guys in children's tales. I want a kind, sensitive, and maybe a bit clumsy uncle. I want he is an inventor, at least at my present intentions.
One last thing: I think there is a more familiar term to call uncles, like daddy for father, but I don't know that. HELP! Thank you!

Children #5

2008-12-22T17:34:00.004+01:00

Happy Christmas!

Children #4

2008-12-19T16:04:00.004+01:00

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Children #3

2008-12-18T17:19:00.002+01:00

Children #2

2008-12-17T15:52:00.001+01:00

Children #1

2008-12-16T15:01:00.003+01:00

Tarsio delle Filippine - Watercolor Pencils #3

2008-09-10T15:17:00.018+02:00

I don't know the Englsh name of this little wild animal! I just know it lives in Asia and it's a
nocturnal creature. It's eyes and what it is eating grabbed my attention.
Water Colour Pencils on Cartiera Magnani sketchbook.

Pen, colour, and ink test

2008-04-22T16:01:00.001+02:00

Colour test - Prova colore

2008-04-22T13:37:00.007+02:00

Winsor & Newton Water Colour and Derwent Pencil on Fabriano Artistico cp

Tree

2008-04-22T13:27:00.006+02:00

Publish Post

Albrecht Durer watercolour pencil on Raffiné sketchbook

2008-04-10T12:52:00.006+02:00

I did this with my Albrecht Durer WC Pencils on Fabriano Artistico 140 lb CP

Francesco and Monster the monster

2008-04-03T13:43:00.007+02:00

Another sketch. This time for pg.26 of my still unfinished children's picture book 'Francesco and Monster the monster'.

April

2008-04-02T11:24:00.010+02:00

Sketches for Ciro's April calendar page - on line at http://volaresottacqua.blogspot.com/
Faber Castell 9000 2H pencil on Fabriano Accademia 56lbs

Merry Christmas!

2007-12-24T18:33:00.002+01:00

Ciro 8

2007-12-03T23:41:00.005+01:00

preliminary sketches for Ciro 8

more preliminary sketches for Ciro 8

pencil for Ciro 8

Ciro 7

2007-11-22T15:39:00.005+01:00

pencil for Ciro 7

Ciro 7

2007-11-19T16:04:00.005+01:00

preliminary sketches for Ciro 07

Sketchbook - Tacquino per gli schizzi

2007-11-14T15:44:00.004+01:00

Bologna, May 2007 - pencil - matita

Bologna, April 2007 - pencil and ink - matita e inchiostro

Bologna, March 2007 - pencil - matita

Signore in bicicletta - pencil - matita