Alesandro Barbucci

(b. 1973, Italy)

Alessandro Barbucci began his career with 19 years at the Italian Disney productions, making several stories with the 'Duck' characters. He also works as a storyboard artist for animation series.

In 2000, Canepa and Barbucci start working on French comic for the editorial Soleil, making the comic Sky Doll.

In 2001, he began doing stories for 'W.I.T.C.H.' with Canepa and Disney, and they still working in the project since the number 6, but finally Canape and Barbuchi leave the projects.

In 2003, they made Monster Allergy, edited from Soleil too. The series were also adapted in a two-seasons animated serie produced by Rainbow, Futurikon and disney Channel and later picked up by Warner Bros.

Barbucci and Canepa are currently working on the popular series SKY DOLL, published by Soleil in France and Marvel in the USA as time he is a teacher at the Italian Disney Academy.

Autor website: http://alessandrobarbucci.blogspot.com/

MCBESS

McBess or Matthieu Bessudo is an illustrator and director in Kassel, Germany, he has a peculiar style and a singular point of view.

He was born in 1984, in Cannes. From the beginning he was attracted to music and he took guitar and drum lessons.

In 2002 he enrolled in Supinfocom, a multimedia school in Arles. There he studied 3D animation for four years , so he started to develop his peculiar style, at this time more colourful and less structurated. He chooses his nickname “McBess” to be different the others Matthiews of the class.

In 2006, after working in different web illustration sites like Eatpoo and Cafesale, McBess graduates in Sufinfocom with a short film called “Sigg Jones”, the tale of the story of a battle star and his agent, in 3D.

After his graduation, McBess and his friends Douglas Lassance and Jonathan Vuille min enrolled in The Mill, a London special effects enterprise which won an Oscar.

The “new” McBess was born in that periode combining caricatures like Betty Boop and Merrie Melodies with an asimetrical vision and a lot of musical and surrealistic elements.

From 2007 McBess has been published on important magazines like Juxtapoz, Ilustrated Ape and Hi-Fructose, he is also near to Rotopol Press, an enterprise which prints his designs and which organised his first exhibition in May 2008.

McBess plays in a music band called “Dead Pirates” and he has created the videoclip for the song “Wood”.

In the field of illustration he started the group “Salle Polyvalente”, with different designers and he participated in the blog “Naked Gladiators”.

Did you know... ?

Did you happen to know that in England you use a check to pay a bill whereas in America you use bill to pay the check! Watch out for them restaurants when you travel 'round! ;)

DA Tutorial

Tutorials from DeviantArt

+A lovely hands tutorial and hands reference from Qinni that I found in DeviantArt.: Hands tutorial

+That other its an hair tutorial, made for Red-Priest-Usada: Hair tutorial






I wish it will be userful for you ;)

Exito2 (art edition)

Exito2 (engraving & printing techniques)

Exito2 (interior design decoration)

Exito2 (Exhibition building & set construction)

Exito2 (Ilustration)

Borja Sauras Pérez studied the illustration course at the Art School of Oviedo. He continued studying in the School of Cinema Séptima Ars of  Madrid and digital arts (design, 3D, edition, postproduction) in the Trazos´s School of Madrid. He was granted the scholarship Charitable work of Cajamadrid in London and the scholarship Leonard DaVinci in Manchester. He worked in Storyboards Harpers (London) and in Illustrations L.Aullo. He was awarded in PROMAX of Italy, in Motiva and in the contest of entrepreneur of Valnalon. He has illustrated “Menú de Versos” of Esther Garcia and “¿De qué estará hecha la luna?” of Miguel Rojo with the editorial Pintar-Pintar. Since 2005 he works in Ink Apache as creative, post-producer, designer and animator for the main kids television channels like cartoon network, playhouse Disney, Nickelodeon and others like TCM, TNT…

Exito2 (advertising graphics)

 

Pablo Antuña studied illustration and was awarded with three prizes by the government of Buenos Aires city, BBVA and Libero Badii´s foundation. In 1999 he started  Graphic Design in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of Buenos Aires and in 2002 he came to Asturias, where he studies Advertising Graphics in the Oviedo Art School. In that period he won some prizes in the design and illustration area and worked on a section dedicated to the Illustration of a website set in Madrid. He also collaborated in the Gonzalez Imas´s Studio (Oviedo) and later in Isertia (Bittia) and Area Norte (Gijon). He works as a freelance for Agencies and Studios of Buenos Aires, Vancouver (Canada) and Spain; at the same time he works for other clients such as Fundación Principe de Asturias and other enterprises and entities. Currently he is secretary of the Association of Graphic Designers of Asturias (AGA).

Exito2 (artistic photography)

 

Ana Belén Fernández Costales is graduated in photography by Oviedo Art School. She starts as a graphic editor of different newspapers such as La voz de Asturias, El Periódico de Gijón and AS, a sports paper. During 2003 and 2004 she is the official photographer in the International Movie Festival of Gijon. She collaborates with Cover Agency and Area 11 Agency and with Interviú  magazine. Her artistic job has been awarded by INJUVE and Muestra de Artes Plásticas de Asturias. She has also  shown her projects in Casa de Cultura de Avilés, Banco Herrero de Oviedo, etc.

Exito2 (Arts applied to the sculture)

 

Mª José López studied in the Art School of Oviedo. She also was student of the Art School of San Fernando, Madrid, and she studied sculpture and ceramics in Gijón. She is very interested in the heritage maintenance and management, due to this she has studied courses such as “Natural and Historical Heritage: Cultural Value and Economic Resource” , in the Marcelino Botín Foundation, “Conduct and Recovery of the Etnographic Heritage I” , in the University of Oviedo’s Foundation and “Appreciation, Knowledge and Maintenance of the Artistic Asturian Heritage” , in the Arts Museum of Asturias, Oviedo.

Exito2 (presentation)

Halloween Pumpkins 2010

 

Halloween is a party witch is not very popular in our country but the department of English has organized the days 28 and 29 of October a pumpkins contest to show this tradition mainly American.

There also drawings of pumpkins done by the students of the first and second courses of bachillerato and a panel with comic strips about Halloween done by the students of the first and second course of illustration.

What's Up?

<<That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.>>

Doris Lessing

 Hello everyone and welcome to the beginning of this blog.
 Are there too many English blogs out here? We´d like to think that this one is different from the rest. First of all I'd like to thank my students because without them this blog wouldn't have been possible. I'm deeply grateful to them. They've not only inspired me but their ideas and work has been absolutely enlightening and motivating. I say all this because this blog  has been created by them. We find in internet a great window to show our school to the world, an Art School which is like an engine that never stops working.

   Glad to be of help to you out there, we'll be pleased to receive suggestions, comments,... and now you know where to find us!!

 I hope you enjoy this experience