It's a me Realistic Mario!

I wanted to do a version of Mario that actually looked like the Original "mushroomed" Mario not the version Nintendo came up with from Mario Bros. 2 onwards... So here it is.

A taste of what I've been working on

So I have been working on some funny Illustrations lately and I just wanted to post one of the dozen or more I have done. The theme is animals and music and I want to publish it. We'll see if I get that far, for now I love what I'm working on!

New Website!

I now have a website of my own! It may be easier to Browse the different things I like to do.
So here's a link to it!

www.apiedimonte.squarespace.com

Please take a look!

RapunzeLEO

So my brother wanted an image, quick, to put as the cover of the book he made for his wife. So in a couple of days I made this for him.

- The first Olympics -

I woke up at 4 in the morning today with the urge to draw. I have had soo many ideas that I could have developed further in these 4 years. So I decided to draw something up to explore where things could go. Here's another project I had in mind. What if we could see the first olympics.
I want to put up some character types I wanted to create. Here's an example, maybe to realistic of a spartan throwing a javelin. I have a whole crazy story that goes with all of this.

Character development

I decided that if I want to be an animator I have to create characters with personality and animate them... So here goes Quick loose sketches coloured ...

My brother got married

Have been away for 2 weeks because my big brother got married on the 12th of September. I'm sooo happy for him. This one's for you Leo!

Long time comming

I haven't posted in sooo long so here's a little something I want to share. I finally painted the caricature of my family I started way back.
I worked with digital leisure this summer on a cool project that has to do with video games and classical animation. After that was done I moved on and met a very talented Italian artist Daniele Procacci. Born and raised in Italy he also went to Sheridan and graduated in 2001. I've been collaborating with him on an awesome project he's developing with the support from the Italian Consulate in Toronto and other investors. It's a comic/graphic novel that illustrates the millions of difficulties that immigrants have to face to be able to start over. Daniele and I get along very well because we both love the Renaissance era. We will probably be working together in the future on something amazing we put together.

Family portrait Caricature

Here's something I started back at Christmas and never really got the time to paint. I will, eventually finish it. In this drawing there are the people I love the most in the whole world. My family has always supported my crazy dreams of becoming an artist.

Caricature Life drawing

For life drawing the other we were asked to go with a different approach. Caricature the model and exagerate proportions and features, here are some examples of that exercise.

I'm Back!

Got back on Saturday from our two week trip to Italy. It was great, my wife and I got to stay with the people we love the most and my wife's sister got married. Of course we bought the newly weds a gift but I wanted to make them something of my own. I decided to draw them a caricature paint it digitally and get it printed on canvas in Italy. The print cost me 30 €uros and came out great! The size was 50 x 30 inches!!
So even thought I have had this done for more than a month I can finally host on my blog without ruining the surprise!

Myhtology ancient comic books

I always loved mythological tales with incredible beasts and heroes. The eternal fight between good and evil. They are at the root of every comic book hero of today and they teach moral values and the sotry structure is rich and easy to follow in many of them. So here's something I'm working on now a centaur and minotaur fight.
One part of bigger battle.

My good friend Jack's Alfa Romeo

This is a gift for my dad's best friend Jack who has a beatiful, sporty, Alfa Romeo step nose a great classic. So I decided to do caricature of his car and I'll be giving him the file so that he can get it printed on high quality glossy paper.
Jack and his wife Zlata have pretty much become our family here in Canada. I can't wait to show them the drawing. I hope they'll like it...

I love to do Caricatures

Since I was little I thought that caricatures was a great way of making people feal like a part of what you are drawing, make them care and be engaged by the piece instead of just looking at it.
So here are some of the caricatures I have done in the past... There are some I'm working on right now but those are top secret...