Today we have Leonardo Sala who has kindly told us a little about his emotive pieces from a series called ‘The Mannequin
“With ‘The Mannequin’ I wanted to create a style to quickly illustrate concepts, with a bit of a surreal atmosphere. I like very much to put constraint in my art process too. For ‘The Mannequin’ the constraints were: clear concepts, minimal style, draw directly with a pen. Feeling a strong emotion while creating is another essential part of the process.”
Tell us a little about yourself, where are you from and where are you living now?
My name’s Leonardo Sala and I’m a 38 old multimedia artist living in Milano, Italy.
At what age did you begin drawing/illustrating? And when did it become a profession?
I started drawing “seriously” at the age of 13, while attending the art school in Busto Arsizio. Then in 1991, after attending the illustration/animation course at IED in Milano, I began working in the multimedia biz.
What people (artist or otherwise), places or things inspire you, and how?
My inspiration comes from multiple sources and in multiple ways. I started getting inspired when I was a child watching the paintings of Giorgio De Chirico and René Magritte. Then came Moebius (which strongly influenced my Mannequin style). Recently I’ve been a big fan of Kazuo Oga, background artist of many Miyazaki’s films. Inspiration tend to strike me when I’m not in front of my computer, especially if I’m walking around in a peaceful place.
What are your most used ‘tools of the trade’
These days I work mainly digital and my tools are Corel Painter for illustration and Blender 3D and Flash for animation. To do sketches I use anything handy, like pencils, pens, pastels. Often I like to force myself to draw using a pen without doing any prior sketch, and using only single strokes: only me, the pen and the blank sheet. The Mannequin was created just this way.
What are you working on at the moment?
? I’m finishing an on line Flash application for a client. On the art side, I’m creating a new style of animation that I really want to push forward.
What are your other interests beside art?
I play the piano since the age of 11, so music is one of my other interests (oops, but this is art). I like to design and program small games (ouch! art again!). Beside art, I’m not a very active person so I like to do standard but very enjoyable things like staying with my wife and my baby, watching movies, surfing the internet, playing games…
What’s the best and worst parts of being a full time, working artist?
? Well, it depends on what is important to you and your life. If you are a freelance the bright side is time management. You can manage your life and your work in a quite flexible way. The dark side of being a freelance is that you don’t have any guaranteed income, you must work and, at the same time, you must constantly contact new clients; often you sleep a few hours ’cause of night time work, and so on.
Any advice to up and coming artists?
Again, it depends on what you want your career to be and what kind of person you are. If you wanna work at Disney you must bend your mind to the “Disney way of life”, I suppose. From my point of view I’d suggest: do your best to develop YOUR art and style. Nowadays it’s very difficult to be completely original but strive to put your mark in your work. Client work tend to leave you with little or no time, but try to keep some to do new experiments with your art.
Thank you for the good writeup. It in fact was a amusement account it. Look advanced to far added agreeable from you! By the way, how could we communicate?
Quality blog brings quality monitoring and changes mind of intelects.A small donation you may be interested. http://corneey.com/wm6Zo9
I was speaking with a friend of mine on this info and also about excel tutorial as well. I feel you made a lot of great points here, we’re also excited to read more stuff from you.
I do accept as true with all the ideas you’ve presented in your post. They are very convincing and can certainly work. Nonetheless, the posts are very brief for beginners. May you please extend them a bit from next time? Thanks for the post.
Very interesting information!Perfect just what I was looking for!
Thanks for the marvelous posting! I certainly enjoyed reading it, you are a great author.I will always bookmark your blog and will eventually come back at some point. I want to encourage you to ultimately continue your great writing, have a nice day!|
Very interesting subject, thank you for posting.
Amazing! This blog looks just like my old one! It’s on a entirely different topic but it has pretty much the same layout and design. Great choice of colors!|
Nice post. I was checking continuously this weblog and I’m impressed!
Very useful information specially the ultimate part :) I handle such information much.
I was seeking this particular information for a
very lengthy time. Thank you and best of luck.
I really like your blog.. very nice colors & theme. Did you create this website yourself or did you hire someone to do it for you? Plz reply as I’m looking to create my own blog and would like to know where u got this from. cheers|
I every time used to study article in news papers but now as I am a user of internet so from now I am using net for posts, thanks to web.|
Ahaa, its pleasant discussion regarding this paragraph at this place at this weblog, I have read
all that, so at this time me also commenting here.
Homeowners often need a tree service for three causes.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on meta_keyword. Regards|
I really enjoy reading through on this web site, it has superb content. “Don’t put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.” by Miguel de Cervantes.
Great post. I was checking continuously this blog and I am impressed! Very helpful information particularly the ultimate phase :) I take care of such info a lot. I was looking for this particular info for a very long time. Thank you and best of luck. |
It’s awesome designed for me to have a web page, which is valuable for my knowledge. thanks admin|
Nunca quise un trabajo en una compañía grande así que las ferias de la carrera generalmente no me han interesado mucho. Pero, ahora en el otro lado, veo lo útil que realmente son.NegroPollon
I like what you guys are up also. Such smart work and reporting! Carry on the superb works guys I have incorporated you guys to my blogroll. I think it’ll improve the value of my web site :).
I was conversing with a good friend of my own on this and regarding bitcoin value too. I do think you made a lot of great points on this page, we’re also looking forward to read more stuff from you.
Normally I do not read post on blogs, but I wish to say that this write-up very forced me to check out and do so! Your writing style has been surprised me. Thank you, very great post.|
Such vans are already heading for the road.
I’m truly enjoying the design and layout of your website. It’s a very easy on the eyes which makes it much more pleasant for me to come here and visit more often. Did you hire out a designer to create your theme? Outstanding work!|
Hey can you tell me which platform you’re utilizing? I am going to get started with my own personal blog on simple house plans very soon though I’m having difficulty making a decision.
hello!,I like your writing so much! percentage we keep up a correspondence extra approximately your post on AOL? I need an expert on this house to unravel my problem. Maybe that is you! Taking a look ahead to look you.
The time to study or take a look at the content or sites we’ve linked to below.
It’s actually a cool and helpful piece of info. I’m glad that you shared this helpful info with us. Please keep us up to date like this. Thank you for sharing.|
Thanks for sharing such a pleasant thinking, post is good, thats why i have read it entirely|
Hey! I could have sworn I’ve been to this site before but after browsing through some of the post I realized it’s new to me. Anyways, I’m definitely happy I found it and I’ll be bookmarking and checking back often!|
Fine way of telling, and pleasant post to get data on the topic of my presentation focus, which i am going to deliver in institution of higher education.|
You have remarked very interesting points ! ps decent web site . “There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.” by W. Somerset Maugham.
Es la mejor manera absoluta de encontrar personas que no sólo quieren trabajar para usted, sino que desea también! La mayoría de los candidatos que obtiene de la publicación de trabajos en lugares como monstruo o workopolis son absolutamente terribles.Venganza
We are a group of volunteers and opening a new scheme in our community. Your site provided us with valuable info to work on. You have done a formidable job and our entire community will be thankful to you.|
Nunca quise un trabajo en una compañía grande así que las ferias de la carrera generalmente no me han interesado mucho. Pero, ahora en el otro lado, veo lo útil que realmente son.NegroPollon
This post will help the internet users for setting up new web site or even a blog from start to end.|
I’m really inspired together with your writing skills as neatly as with the structure in your blog. Is this a paid topic or did you modify it yourself? Anyway stay up the excellent high quality writing, it’s uncommon to look a great weblog like this one these days..|
Así que al final es ganar-ganar. Las empresas obtienen los empleados que buscan (y saben que es mucho más probable que el solicitante sea un empleado que buscan si están solicitando en cusec) y los delegados obtienen las oportunidades que han estado buscando.NegroPollon
Wonderful beat ! I wish to apprentice while you amend your website, how can i subscribe for a blog website? The account helped me a acceptable deal. I had been a little bit acquainted of this your broadcast provided bright clear idea|
Sobre la única manera de contratar es a través de recomendaciones.NegroPollon
I am not sure where you’re getting your info, but great topic. I needs to spend some time learning much more or understanding more. Thanks for wonderful information I was looking for this information for my mission.
Sobre la única manera de contratar es a través de recomendaciones.NegroPollon
of course like your web site however you need to test the spelling on several of your posts. Many of them are rife with spelling issues and I in finding it very bothersome to tell the truth nevertheless I’ll definitely come again again.
Nunca quise un trabajo en una compañía grande así que las ferias de la carrera generalmente no me han interesado mucho. Pero, ahora en el otro lado, veo lo útil que realmente son.NegroPollon
At this time it looks like Expression Engine is the best blogging platform out there right now. (from what I’ve read) Is that what you are using on your blog?|
Pretty! This has been an extremely wonderful article. Thanks for providing this info.|
This is pretty! I really love this happy birthday wish. Have a nice day.
I could not refrain from commenting. Perfectly written!|
I’m really impressed with your writing skills and also with the layout on your weblog. Is this a paid theme or did you customize it yourself? Either way keep up the nice quality writing, it’s rare to see a nice blog like this one these days..
Pep Boys Towing Service provides 24 hour help.
It’s a shame you don’t have a donate button! I’d definitely donate to this excellent blog! I suppose for now i’ll settle for bookmarking and adding your RSS feed to my Google account. I look forward to new updates and will talk about this website with my Facebook group. Talk soon!|