Black and white illustrations have always had great power. If we are looking for a comic artist who poured all his art and graphic expression thanks to B / W, we can find Frank Miller. One of the best cartoonists of the last decades and who has known how to show like nobody the great force in the message that he can print black and white in such nauseating and street works as Sin City.
I also proclaim myself a lover of the use of black and white for my works, as is the case with Alessandro Paglia who, thanks to gel ink pens, is able to perform high-quality works of art and technical. Illustrations that go to hyperrealism to show us the ability it has to reflect certain objects with a technical realization of enormous quality in every way.
Another lover of the depth and elegance of black and white that use the gel ink pen to capture strong contrasts between the white of the paper itself and the intense black offered by this type of tool for drawing and illustration. Illustrations that take great power with this expressiveness.
Straw draw illustrations and comics in black and white since he was a child, so that now he has discovered the charm and impact of a larger format with an original technique.
His idea was transform the subjects of these series in pieces of art and each of those drawings are a magnification of some of the tributes of his personality. The creation process is fairly simple as you pick a subject, photograph it, draw it in pencil sketches, and meticulously reproduce it with gel ink pens on rough textured paper. It accumulates different layers of ink in a pattern that repeats in small circles. The end result is a well-defined job.
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