Pasquale Venanzio

Berlusconi Dictator

2011-12-13T00:51:00.000-08:00

A couple of years ago I did another book for an Italian Editor, long story, one day I will share it with the world, it was about Jokes of and about Berlusconi, below the back cover...

Merry Christmas+Happy New Year to all the honest people int he world!!

Frankenstein

2011-10-30T06:38:00.000-07:00

Gosh, time flies, Im afraid I do not have much time for sketching theses days, on top of the usual family problems, work, now also football coaching 30/40 kids U6 at the week end!!
Anyway, Happy Haloween to all children!

Here some old sketches of Frankenstein, don't remember if I ever published them before or not..

Steve Wright

2011-06-23T05:53:00.001-07:00

It has been a while, here a present for a friend of mine;)

Altar Boys

2011-03-22T16:27:00.000-07:00

It has been a while before posting something, a while ago I did few sketches from some pictures of altar boys , I've managed to colour at least one!!!

Better than nothing;)

People

2010-12-18T07:42:00.000-08:00

I went to a craft market in my area to promote my Kidboxes, sitting at my stall I spend some time sketching people faces passing by...

Boris Johnson & Ken Livingston

2010-12-08T08:22:00.000-08:00

This time I've tried to draw a couple of caricatures without sketching, one go...of the last and the current Mayor of London...

Sketches

2010-11-15T03:21:00.000-08:00

When I have some spare times these days, I practise speed caricatures just looking at some pictures on the web, it's not easy at all to sketch in maximum 2 minutes a face and make it right, I'm curious to see if I'll get better at it..

below few I did last week...

Emily Maitlis

2010-10-25T10:23:00.001-07:00

When I have some spare times, I put down sketches usually browsing the web, the problem is that hardly ever I can go back and colour the drawings...

And this one is no exception...I start doing it but no time for complete it...

Well, better than nothing;)

Bruce Forsyth

2010-10-08T07:40:00.000-07:00

A quick sketch of Bruce Forsyth....

Ed Miliband

2010-09-29T08:32:00.000-07:00

That's how I see the man of the week...

Vestman

2010-09-13T12:34:00.000-07:00

After years of nagging me , I finally gave in , and manage to put together a strip story to illustrate an episode that really happened few years ago, see for yourself....

David Cameron

2010-08-26T05:27:00.000-07:00

This morning sketch or the British Prime Minister...

Stefano Cirillo

2010-08-23T12:39:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine invited me to his son party graduation, this was my present....

Vincent Cable

2010-07-17T03:51:00.000-07:00

This morning sketch of Vincent Cable.....

Butcher gag

2010-07-15T07:07:00.000-07:00

Last month I did a logo of a butcher for a friend of mine, to be used at the BBQ for his football club, I did several roughs, this morning I found this sketch between my papers, I don't think it would have been appropriate to suggest to him, or maybe yes, Kevin??

Pen Sketches

2010-07-14T03:47:00.000-07:00

I love the old Bic Pen, it invites me to sketch, it's amazing that sometimes I do better with it than the pencil...I guess no smudging helps..

here some youths faces...

Christine Beakley

2010-06-11T06:36:00.000-07:00

and this morning sketch of the new star of British Television: Christine Beakley...

Steve Jobs

2010-06-10T10:05:00.000-07:00

This morning first impression of the great Steve Jobs...needless to say ...I love my iMac...

Butcher

2010-06-09T02:58:00.000-07:00

I've done a fat butcher logo for a friend of mine, he's raising money for his football club, here some few scribbles I did for fun before choosing the one he wanted...

Pinocchio

2010-05-22T05:09:00.000-07:00

I'm doing a cover for a book for a new writer...it's about Pinocchio, I took the opportunity to do some extra quick sketches about him...here they are..

Phantom Duck

2010-05-12T02:05:00.000-07:00

A sketch of Phantom Duck...

Nick Clegg

2010-04-21T03:42:00.000-07:00

A caricature of Nick Clegg.....

School's Amigos Golf Tourney

2010-03-12T08:34:00.000-08:00

Follow up story......now they need the logo in colour.....aren't they lucky to have a friend like me??!

ahahaha...

Gourd

2010-03-12T08:29:00.000-08:00

Some drawings idea for a Gourd Character...

Mr Peppe Nisco

2010-02-21T04:11:00.000-08:00

A dear old friend of mine had his 50th birthday party last week, I thought what better to way to demonstrate my friendship than immortalized him on paper..eheh..

Ciao Peppe!!

Sexy Woman

2010-01-22T06:51:00.000-08:00

And this is a sketch of my wife......without my glasses on.....

Minnie Mouse

2010-01-11T03:42:00.000-08:00

Well, let's start the week with a Minnie's sketch...

St.Swithun Wells School Barbecue

2010-01-08T12:15:00.000-08:00

I forgot to post the drawing I did for last year School BBQ...

Haven't got time to colour it at the moment..

Little Dragon

2010-01-07T09:42:00.000-08:00

I was commissioned to do a study on a Chinese famous TV dragon last year,here one of the first version...the final one was quite different as always happened..

Insult

2010-01-07T09:29:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to all the honest people of this world!

I'll start the blog on 2010 with an earlier version of a cover for an Italian Book that has for subject "the insult";

The book has been published in Italy recently;

Cowboy Sketches

2009-12-16T16:26:00.000-08:00

Normally I do not use Photoshop to draw,I find is much better and faster using the pencil or a pen,sure it gives you different solutions but it takes away the natural contact/feeling between the hand the pencil and the paper;

In any case,here some sketches i did to try it out sometimes ago.

Dog Poo

2009-12-11T09:16:00.000-08:00

Just find an old sketch of a woman with her dog doing a poo saw outside my window;

Like in any city around the world, people take their dogs for a "walk" without carrying bags to pick up their droppings,of course it's never on the front/edges of their own houses, it's so annoying and disgraceful ....in this case the lady court my eyes because she did have the bag!

Good for her;)

Boy

2009-11-19T16:08:00.000-08:00

Looking at the window this morning I saw a boy passing by...he was sad...here an impression..

Amigo

2009-11-03T06:12:00.000-08:00

This morning at school a couple of friends (Gary and Steve shhh...)asked me a sketch of a Character "like the 3 Amigos for a Golf Competition"....I'm not sure what they are up to....anyway,here it is....

Richard Fawconer

2009-10-26T07:29:00.000-07:00

For the launch of his brilliant classic science fiction first book trilogy : Siege at Gazbriz

I made a caricature of my friend Richard, he's a true "English Gentleman",a pleasure to be with, and a very clever chap,if you like this sort of book,click on the cover (right side of the blog)and you'll be able to read the first episode free of charge...

By the way,I did the cover for the book;

Vittorio Sgarbi

2009-09-24T03:53:00.000-07:00

Last week I finished all the caricatures for the coming book,I must say if the schedule was not so tight I could have work on the color ones a bit more,but hey,there is always next time..

The guy in the picture is one of many Berlusconi's henchman, one of the worst I have ever seen in television...

Umberto Bossi

2009-09-03T09:05:00.000-07:00

In the last month I have been doing lots of italian politicians caricatures for a book,it's fun to do it,but the schedule it's crazy and the photos off internet often difficult to read... anyway ,here is one of the Italian Northern League historical leader,an absolute tweet!!

Doodles

2009-07-26T09:26:00.000-07:00

Few fun cow boys I did yesterday...

Delivery Ads Guy

2009-07-14T02:05:00.000-07:00

As happen to all of us,we receive daily advertising leaflets/papers,apart from the post man,there the delivery boys/girls,through the window I saw today one of them,he was on the other side of the road,immediately I spotted his interesting shape,so I drew down what I remember in those 15 seconds I had the chance to look at him...

Waiter

2009-07-10T01:49:00.000-07:00

having seen I'm in the "theme",here a profession which I'm very familiar with,in my home town Sorrento ,the waiter is one of the few seasonal jobs that the working class young people can do to survive(I did it as well im my youths years to earn some bucks...)the alternative is leaving...or unemployed!

Chefs

2009-07-05T04:43:00.000-07:00

And here some more ....I must say I love eating the food cooked on charcoals...

Sicilian Chef

2009-06-30T02:21:00.000-07:00

Also this year,I was given the assignment to organize the Barbecue at the school,so I thought to do a logo of a chef,I did several roughs ,this is one of them...

Aaron Heslehurst

2009-05-05T15:51:00.000-07:00

Finally got sometimes to do a sketch...

Here is Aaron one of the most lively and energetic personality BBC presenter..

Comic Relief

2009-03-12T03:03:00.001-07:00

I saw the video of Paddy and Keith on the BBC last week,ahahaha ..they were really funny...

shame that the picture on you tube are so small...well, you do the best you can!!

Jeremy Paxman

2009-03-07T07:40:00.000-08:00

A sketch of Jeremy...

Rowan Atkinson-Tim McInnerny

2009-02-22T04:07:00.000-08:00

Well,having seen I've started with them let's go on...

Stephen Fry-Hugh Laurie

2009-02-11T08:35:00.000-08:00

This morning sketches...

Karaoke Disco Party

2009-01-31T06:09:00.000-08:00

In the last 2 months I have been learning a new program,so no time at all for sketching,but I manage to do this drawing for my daughter birthday party,we recorded few songs ,it was great!!

Christmas 2008

2008-12-18T05:23:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas to all the honest people in this world!!

I did this drawing for my friend Andrea Terrano, he organizes great"Hen Night Party"at his recording studio in LONDON(and much more), go to: www.iguanastudio.co.uk

Fifth Musketeer

2008-11-28T03:34:00.000-08:00

and the Fifth one missing from the previous picture...

Paul: Assistant Chef

The Four Musketeers

2008-11-26T04:35:00.000-08:00

These sketch depicts four friends at this year School Fair ,details are as follow:

From left to right:

Tim:Assistant Chefs

Calogero: Chicken Kebab Barbecue Chef

Pasquale(yeah,that's right me in person):Pasta Chef(Shoemaker's Penne on the day)

Steve:Burgers/Hot Dogs Chef

Rolling Stones

2008-11-13T09:52:00.000-08:00

Just came across a nice picture of the Rolling Stones,this is the way I see them today ...

Christmas Cards

2008-11-07T06:53:00.001-08:00

Here I am again...
I've just remembered that I have only a couple of hundrends Christmas Cards left,if you want to buy them please click on :MY SHOP on the rigth side of the blog,that will lead you to my site where you can see them in details;
The Cards are a bargain,great quality size paper ,and very good price!!!
Below I've post the drawings..
I have got some new design to print,but I don't know if it will be this year;
Cheers!

Mr Ali Ghotbi

2008-10-20T13:13:00.000-07:00

A caricature I've done recently for a 40th birthday!!

Congratulation Ali!!!

Fantasy/Mythical Creatures

2008-10-17T07:02:00.001-07:00

I've been scribbling few heads ideas for Trolls,Ogres etc.

Sorrento Sketch 3

2008-10-08T07:13:00.000-07:00

Another sketch I did of an old small street in Sorrento..

Sketch2+Audio

2008-09-18T04:47:00.001-07:00

and the video with audio,it was tough to talk and draw...

Native Americans Characters

2008-09-17T09:14:00.001-07:00

Here some fun characters I scribbled a while ago,I did a video on Youtube of one of them..I'll post it again...

Ulysses:page 10/LINKS READY!!

2008-09-12T10:27:00.000-07:00

Hi All,
I'm pleased to tell you that the Ulysses blogs are up and running in 3 LANGUAGES(English,German and Italian for now...)please click on the links on the right side of this blog to continue reading the Story: THE CICLOPS POLIPHEMUS
Hope you will enjoy it!!!
ciao

Ulysses:page 9

2008-09-12T10:26:00.001-07:00

Ulysses1 :The Cyclops Polyphemus

2008-09-09T12:55:00.000-07:00

Meanwhile we prepare the Blogs,here you can see the Cover and read the Prologue that start the First Episode;

Every day at 5.30 pm GMT I'll post a new page!!

I hope you will like it!

Comic Story: The Adventures of Ulysses

2008-09-05T09:53:00.000-07:00

To all Comic Fans,
I'm helping a friend (and distinguished artist) Massimo Fecchi, with his Great Comic Saga: ULYSSES
The first Episode of 50 pages (!!!) will be available exclusively on 3 Blogs(in English,German and Italian initially) FREE for all the Visitors to read, we will post the Prologue than a page per day;
A link for the blogs will appear shortly,meanwhile you can find here the Map of Ulysses journey and some of the Characters ...
Stay tuned!

Thorin

2008-09-04T06:52:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I'm in "charge" of reading a book to my daughter,I thought,a good excuse to read again "The Hobbit"....lovely...so today I put down an impression of Thorin...if I have time I might do some more...

Mr Kevin Quinn

2008-09-01T16:05:00.000-07:00

A caricature of a friend of mine I did for his Birthday;

Funny Soldiers

2008-08-17T08:17:00.000-07:00

Some fun Beduins Soldiers :)

CowBoys/CowGirls

2008-07-30T11:20:00.000-07:00

Some more Cowboys,no preliminary study,just first istinct ideas;

Pooh & Friends

2008-07-29T09:42:00.000-07:00

I did a series of illustrations few months ago,so I'm posting one...

3:10 to Yuma

2008-07-25T10:22:00.000-07:00

I watched the excellent Western Film 3:10 to Yuma the other day,so I thought to draw some Cow Boys characters;

My Biggest Fan

2008-07-22T07:39:00.000-07:00

This lovely chap is Florian Albert(also happen to be my greatest fan so far;),he and other Cartoon lovers do an outstanding job on German Disney Forums looking trough all the stories on the magazines,sharing comments,fact,figures,reviwes,interviewing Artists,and all out of their spare times ,free of charge!

Thanks to you Flo and all your friends!

Chip & Dale

2008-07-21T03:36:00.000-07:00

Few poses of a job..

Italy v France 17-06-2008

2008-06-17T10:26:00.000-07:00

Tonight is the big match,the situation is desperate for both nations,let's hope....

I've got to go and see the game with some Italian friends,I've put down this fast sketch...

Scribbling Penguins

2008-06-12T08:45:00.000-07:00

Today while I was on the Phone I start scribbling Penguins, don't really know why, just cross my mind ...

Telephone

2008-06-10T14:35:00.000-07:00

How annoying it is when you are trying to concentrate on a job and the phone keeps on ringing, often is people trying to sell you something....aaarrghh..

Invitation for First Comunion

2008-05-24T01:10:00.000-07:00

Ehi!

I'm back!!

Gosh it's has been a while since I posted anything,life is too hectic these days,I hope to have some time to sketch something...

Meanwhile,I did a picture for a niece of an old school friend of mine(Emilia),not having much time I never finished like I want it to,bah ,at least it's something new to post!

Ciao

Freddie the Rascal

2008-03-27T09:44:00.000-07:00

A decade ago Egmont asked me to create a new "rascal" character for the Scandinavian Disney Comics (8 panels ),I did severals Birds Characters(I can't find the original drawings)in the end they chose the "Seagull";

Funny enough I've never had the pleasure to draw him in a story,I used to work on the 6 panel comic pocketbook;

Than I saw him on a story drawn by my dearest friend and colleague Massimo Fecchi few years ago(he did not know I created him);

Apparently all the comics fans that have approached me don't know either,it will be nice to know in how many stories he has appeared;

Meanwhile I 've done a sketch of him;

Andrew Neil

2008-03-17T07:03:00.000-07:00

A caricature of Andrew neil ,a witty BBC journalist/presenter;

Barack Obama

2008-03-07T12:12:00.000-08:00

A quick caricature of Senator Obama;

Joke

2008-02-27T08:53:00.001-08:00

A sketch for a friend of mine(musician..)

An homage from my Daughter

2008-02-19T11:29:00.000-08:00

Today meanwhile I was working at the Computer,my daughter drew this for me...

Alastair Darling

2008-02-18T03:27:00.000-08:00

He's very "popular" at the moment!

Alastair Yates

2008-02-15T03:25:00.000-08:00

One of my favourite BBC presenter,here when he was a bit younger;

Donald Duck Comics 3

2008-01-29T02:08:00.000-08:00

Some more pages of an old story...

Don Calogero

2008-01-17T09:59:00.000-08:00

My Sicilian friend Calogero is celebrating his 40th birthday with a bang(Party),his wife asked me a favour,here it is...

Done Corleone!

Little Match Girl 2

2008-01-09T07:09:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to you all!

Some more rough ideas I did for the Little Match Girl theme+the grandmother,I was hoping to do a page story with it,but I don't think I will be able to,no time at all!!

Beppe Grillo

2007-12-20T10:03:00.000-08:00

A Great Italian,one to be proud of!

Little Match Girl

2007-12-13T06:32:00.000-08:00

This month theme for the "Gum or Mint"blog is the wonderful "Little Match Girl"of Hans Christian Andersen,an appropriate time for it,at Christmas people are supposed to be more generous towards those in needs(on paper of course...)

Anyway,here you will find some preliminar roughs idea for the girl,I have to be honest I do not remember what age she has in the novel,should go and check it out;

Sketch2+Audio

2007-12-12T12:48:00.001-08:00

A fun drawing of a Native American Character;

Sketch with Audio

2007-12-06T13:17:00.001-08:00

My first youtube video;It's not the quality I want but I guess is a learning process...should get better...

Father Christmas Illustration

2007-12-06T07:42:00.000-08:00

My Physiotherapist Nirav Patel(free publicity my friend ,eh?;) asked me a Christmas Card for his customers.and here it is...

Politicians Caricatures 2

2007-11-27T10:37:00.000-08:00

Some more caricatures sketches of politicians ...

Pooh & Friends

2007-11-23T07:57:00.000-08:00

Although I hardly ever draw them,I really like Winnie the Pooh,Tigger,Piglet etc.

I've found some old sketches,and a couple of illustrations I did in January,I'm sure there are more somewhere....

Donald Duck Comics

2007-11-12T07:59:00.000-08:00

Meanwhile I finished some more sketches,let's post some Disney comic pages at random from a story I did in 2002/3 with my favourite character...

Egmont/Disney Copyright

Halloween Sketch

2007-11-08T09:28:00.000-08:00

Today I've cleaned up another Halloween sketch with a thick pencil,no time for inking or colorouring..

Plus a quick rough in B & W in photoshop;

Halloween Witch

2007-11-01T12:59:00.000-07:00

Just finished this one,tough to colour,it takes time...

Happy Halloween

2007-10-31T07:19:00.000-07:00

Well,today I'm dressing up as a Skeleton with my friend Calogero as Dracula(see sketch in the previous post for the man himself)for the Halloween Trunk or Treat party at the school,should be fun(for the kids...)

Anyway,last year I miss out the Halloween drawing,I've done several Witches roughs,but I've only managed to finished one ,I might post the rest in the next few days;

Update 01-11-07

Here some photos of me and Calogero+my Prius boot,the kids loved it!!

Politicians Caricatures

2007-10-29T10:25:00.000-07:00

Some sketches I did of some British politicians a while ago,I will post the caricatures without saying who they are,it's up to you to guess who they are;

I'll do more and put them up....hopefully better:)

Sorrento 2

2007-10-25T09:17:00.000-07:00

A view of another small street ,this time in the old town center;

Sorrento

2007-10-19T12:55:00.000-07:00

Ahhhhh,finally today I've started to finished some sketches I did in my last visit to my beautiful home town ,starting with a small old narrow street called Vico 3 Rota,I use to leave 300 meters from this spot...

I'll colour some too..

Yuuuhuuuuuuu....Frankenstein

2007-10-15T09:30:00.000-07:00

This month picture for the "Gum or Mints"blog;

Generally I try to do something funny(at least in my view),so I thought for this picture of Mel Brooke's "Young Frankenstein",fantastic comedy!

2 minute sketch

2007-10-14T17:10:00.000-07:00

I caught my friend Calogero looking at his mobile phone while we were waiting our children at the Italian school...what a guy!