Keep an Eye

Artist Bio

Where are you from?
I live in Vignola (ITALY), but I work principally in Bologna

What inspired you to become an artist?
Since I was 4, I used to claim around that, once grown up, I would have become a comic drawer, but my parents did not attach importance to this, as they considered my ambition as a child-dream as, for example, the dream for the other children to become an astronaut or a ballet dancer… but they were wrong… unfortunately for them.

I attended the school of comics in Bologna and in 2004 I set up a studio / agency with a couple of friends, the Drowart Studio.

Now, my everyday job is divided into comics drawing, illustration, character design, inking… the most important thing for me is to wake up in the morning with a pencil in my hand and go to bed in the late night with the pencil in the hand..

Who are some of your favorite artists?
Too Many… every day I spend less an hour watching blogs and finding new artists. In this time my favourite are Sean “Cheeks” Galloway, Skottie Young, Ben Caldwell,Arthur De Pins

Tell us about your shirt?
I love Monster Inc. by Pixar, I can’t tell you how many times I have watched it and how many times I will watch it again in the future. The love for this film has generated my passion in drawing monsters for fun.

I created a series of little illustrations that represent in graphics some italian idioms, as, in this case, “keep an eye on st.”