Lately I’ve been thinking more about my main antagonist, Marcello di Ferro. As a character, he’s been with me for a little over a decade, but the original story I created him for was a bit of a mess (who hasn’t created a terrible story in college before?!). Repurposing him for La Principessa as a rich newspaper mogul worked out so much better than expected!
Daylight savings time has me exhausted as usual, but I’m somehow reminded that I need to post some stuff out of my sketchbooks again (some of which I’ve neglected to post in a while… whoops). Mix of the traditional sketchbook and the Supernote this time!
Forgot I never posted these, more sketches out of my Supernote! It’s very Chiara-centric. What can I say? I love drawing this girl!
I would describe this week as ‘low energy’ and ‘sad & tired,’ so these aren’t my best doodles by any means, but it’s good to keep pushing myself to doodle, even if I don’t really want to.
I’ve been finding myself really enjoying how I designed Chiara, I think she’s the right mix of tomboy-ish but with a touch of fantasy.
I decided to design a different minor character from La Principessa, one who DOES show up more. The design below is the ‘final’ design of the head of staff, Stassi Cola (and let’s be honest, there is no such thing as a final design in a solo comic creator’s comic), but how I got here was a bit different than the main characters.
I have a lot of feelings about this one. Marcello as a character hides his real emotions under a lot of different masks. There was something cathartic about drawing him embracing Chiara here, and it led me to understand him as a character better.
I drew this in my Supernote on a plane sometime in December 2024, and I’m still quite fond of it. This is Chiara and Fabrizia!
The Supernote Nomad has quickly become my favorite sketching device. It has the look and feel of ballpoint on paper, but with very necessary digital tools such as marquee/lasso and transform.
