At a central station

Waiting is a boring activity, if it is an activity at all. Once I was in this situation. I was at a central station and waiting for someone. To spend my time waiting, I looked around for living objects for my scribbles practice. I tried to create a rough impression of a figure before it moved away. Finally I drew the main outlines.

frutti di mare

While I was looking for seafood images at fotolia for our customer , some bizzare images caught my attention. Because of the license issue, the images can't be shown here. So I made rough sketches from the images to give you first impressions. Click the images to see the originals.
the vegetarian
wrong dentist
big red mouth
pinocchio
calamari
jabba's tounge

Wallpaper Christmas '05

The graphics was somehow inspired by Tim Burton's drawing style (image above). I created four main shapes in Freehand. Then I imported and composed them into a unique winter landscape in Photoshop. Put the typical Christmas red in the background and done!


You can download the wallpaper from pratioto.com (at the mac stuff section)

Wallpaper YWAM

I was impressed by the well illustrated characters from "Your Wings Are Mine", a manga that a friend created. Just for fun and for practice drawing manga, I tried a composition that should tell the basic message of the story. This work is dedicated to Aoi Hayashi, the creator of YWAM.


You can download the wallpaper from pratioto.com (at the mac stuff category)

S.A.F. 1

S.A.F. 1 is a face (aka skin) for Panic's Audion audio player. Find out more at Panic.
I started with some sketches on a paper. It should be a small player (S.A.F. = Small Audion Face) and look like something made of metal. Also it should look fast, more like flying vehicle.

I liked the one in the middle. I drew the outlines in Freehand so I had an editable graphic template for Photoshop. And finally I did the rendering in Photoshop.

To complete the face I also created related icons, images for Audion's preview window and picture manual. This face was done in 2001.

You could download the face at pratioto.com (at the mac stuff category).