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Sketch: Kotallo (+30 art process videos)

Fanart is a little star of creativity. I love looking at it, I love making it, even when it’s simple and just a small idea rather than a full-blown painting. Here’s a character from the video game Horizon Forbidden West. Kotallo of the…

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Cat portrait and video

Sometimes I try to sort through the huge mass of “work in progress” materials I have, and I find paintings I’ve never published on my website. This is the case with a portrait of two cats, created on commission. As a bonus, there…

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Reveal: The dark patrol

3 illustrations commissioned by the Dragonlance Nexus for the project “The Dark Patrol”, a DnD 5 game manual which includes an adventure, and a novelette by Dragonlance fantasy author Richard Knaak. Click HERE to explore in detail each painting My favorite one? This…

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Reveal: Birth of the Dragonrealm

7 illustrations painted for fantasy author Richard Knaak for the new project: Birth of the Dragonrealm. It’s the 40th anniversary of the creation of “Firedrake” – the very first tale of the Dragonrealm series. Who? Cabe Bedlam. The Lady of the Amber. Duke…

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Nebula dragon remake

Blog post 25/07/2025 – How long does it take to finish a painting? In this case, it took 3 years. I created the sketch, lineart and draft color in 2022, during that month of January spent creating one dragon after another for the…

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New: “Raistlin – White Roses”

Blog post 18/06/2025 “Raistlin – White Roses” is my new digital painting. In occasion of Raistlin’s birthday, on 17 June 2025, I drew “something” about him as I did in the past years. A personal challenge, a reminder I should draw something for…

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New artwork: “Buio – The darkness”

Blog post 06/02/2025A painting about an inky creature lurking in the darkness. “Buio” in Italian means “absence of light”… when your eyes are wide open and yet everything you see is just an endless black. A speed painting that emerged – literally -…

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New artwork: Dragon of a dying sun

My painting, “Dragon of a Dying Sun”. The result of strange days, months of anger seeking an outlet. Months of heavy art block.And the return to the habit of starting the year by drawing dragons, like the “Dragonary” challenge launched years ago by…

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Art VS artist: 2024

2024 has been a seemingly quiet year, but sprinkled with art nonetheless. I have had little energy to dedicate to posting on web and social media, so there are several finished works just sitting on my desk. There are paintings I have created…

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New artwork: time for unicorns

Dear readers, I present you two new unicorn paintings: a quiet one, and a fiery one. 💧 “Unicorn brook” is a solitary, melachonic unicorn. Dark patterns swirls on its coat, like runes or scars. 🔥”Fire Unicorn” is a creature made of flames. A…

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Dragonlance: Seekers of Solace

Art reveal: the manual “Seekers in Solace” is out, published on DM Guild by the Dragonlance Nexus. The 4 pieces created for this project, created in the distant May 2024, are linked at the bottom of the page. 📕 The manual “Dragonlance –…

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Lyanna, the sorceress

New painting, a sorceress for a DnD campagin! Check the painting page for more This painting makes a pair with a previous portrait, “Anthony”. Gallery

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New: Raistlin – tea and books

Check “Raistlin, tea and books” , my new digital painting. The perfect day a solitary mage could imagine: tea, books and a nice time reading. Several other paintings are brewing up, news about them will come in the next weeks! Work in progress…

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New: Sithtillaxx the dragon

Artwork reveal: digital painting of Sithtillaxx, a very ancient copper dragon in the Dragonlance fandom. Check the artwork page! “The coppers have a proud ancestry, dating back to the matriarch Querrasian. The offspring of her first eggs included Blayze and Hyaniss, who mated…

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New: Lilith the librarian & Basalt Fireforge

Digital paintings of of Lilith Hallmark, Aesthetic and librarian from Solamnia, and Basalt Fireforge, hill dwarf and nephew of Flint in the Dragonlance fandom. Created as an internal illustrations for the game manual “Untold Quests” [coming soon on Dungeon Master Guild]. Lilith Hallmark…

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New artwork: Big Bad Mushroom Dragon

🍄🍄 I’m excited to show my new painting of the Big Bad Mushroom Dragon. From pencil sketch to digital painting using cintiq and Photoshop: finally, a personal work. Work in progress Artwork page Wips, details, prints and more Artwork created on: 23/02/2024 -…

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New paintings: “dragonary 2024”

The year started with 7 new dragons! Check each of them on my website by clicking this article. 🎨🐲 This is now the third year I have participated in Matt Stawicki’s ”Dragonary challenge”, an opportunity to spend a month drawing dragons.“But couldn’t you draw…

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A summary for a 2023 of art

⌛ In the picture: “Art vs artist 2023” – a way to stop and look back, take stock of a past year. 📘 A year with some noteworthy satisfactions, the publication of several publications with my illustrations: Autumn twilight, Shadow of the black…

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New: Kaz the minotaur – Dragonlance Nexus

🐮 Artwork reveal: Kaz the minotaur and Delbin the Kender (Dragonlance fandom) sailing their ship towards new adventure. Commissioned by the Dragonlance Nexus as internal illustration for the adventure manual “The Journals of Kaz the Minotaur – The lost colony” featuring a novel…

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More art process videos

Update, 4 new Art Process Videos mounted and uploaded. Videos that show, even in a speeded-up way, the creation of a painting… I love them. They have been influential in the past, because those created by other artists have taught me so much.…

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Artwork update: Astral dragon

An update about a painting – still trying to perfect it, to make it “just right.” This journey toward “perfection” is 22 years old: here I reveal how this same astral dragon has changed from 2001 to today. “Draw it again!” is a…

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Award-winning podcast: Echoes of Krynn

🏆🎤 I’m happy to share the news: the D&D podcast “Echoes of Krynn” by Lawful Stupid RPG – whose characters I had the pleasure of illustrating – won the gold prize in the Signal Award 2023! How about prints? 📸🎪 Some pictures from…

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New artwork: The irda sorceress

31/10/2023 ✨🎨 “The Irda Sorceress” – Another illustration for the novel series “Children of Hell” by S. Weber aka Winterhawk! A close fight, an epic spell, tons of details!

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New artwork: Coastal village

18/10/2023 🌊🎨 Cover for an upcoming adventure manual on DM Guild, four adventurers begin an adventure in a mysterious, flooded coastal village. Discover all the crazy details 🌊 Link to the artwork page Created on 03/07/2023, released on 16/10/2023 – Copyright 2023 Elena…

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Interview – FB “Sages of Dragonlance”

In 2020, Margaret Weis shared my “Dalamar – Branded” painting, the Dragonlance Fandom discovered my art. After a few weeks, the admin of the Facebook Group “Sages of Dragonlance” asked for a small interview with me. This article was published on the Facebook…

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New artwork: Selkie

🎨 14/09/2023 New painting of a lovely Selkie, a mythological creature that can shapeshift between seal and human forms by removing or putting on their seal skin. Commission portrait for a selkie character of a private roleplaying campaign. Check the artwork page! 🎨💦🧜‍♀️…

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Artwork update: dragons

05/09/2023 – A bunch of dragon paintings uploaded on my website! January 2023 was an intense moment, and I had not yet the time and the occasion to properly upload the flock of dragons that spawned from the Dragonary challenge. 🌕 The Golden…

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New artwork – Production time vs Publication time

New artwork update: Yes, I’m still here. The contemporary age, internet, social media and everything in between, imply the need for constant updates (well, even normal relationships between people, actually 😅.) Yet, it is known, from time to time artists disappear off the…

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