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I know you can't believe it, but I'm uploading something new in my gallery again!!

Dear Rita and her husband have this beautiful project called Darkwing , it's a fantasy saga written by Davide and soon it will be published also the first comic book, with (amazing) art by Rita.

It was ages that I wanted to paint a fanart for them and when they decided to hold an art contest to celebrate the comic #0 I knew the time was ripe. (yeah, in a nutshell: I needed a deadline... )
I also knew immediately that I wanted to work on a very specific character: Lyse.
Lyse is thirteen. She is cute, she will become a beautiful woman, has a strong attitude but is also sweet. But, most of all, she is thirteen. What a wonderful age to try to capture! You can see the woman she will become, but she is still a child. I enjoyed the challenge!
She has this silver pendant shaped as a lily that is very dear to her, a gift for her thirteen birthday: in my mind I tried to picture how she should have looked while watching her own reflection with the pendant on.

The winner illustration will receive a money prize and be published on the cover, but several non-winning entries will be published in grayscale inside. I knew I wasn't competing for the cover, not working on the main character and doing a simple portrait, I just wanted to make a little tribute for this project and so I worked in grayscale.

Then I received the most unexpected email: they said they had an ex-equo, the talented Andrea Tentori Montalto and me were chosen as winners of the contest and they asked us if we would agree to combine our entry in a single cover! what?
I would have to color mine and Andrea will do the merging. I have complete trust in his ability as a painter so I said "why not? let's do this crazy thing!".
I'm sure it will come out something to be really proud of but I'm also really looking forward to see the result!

Please check also the wonderful illustration Andrea did (such a powerful image, he totally deserved the cover, in my opinion! But there are other considerations apart form the beauty of the image behind the choice made):

Description
I know you can't believe it, but I'm uploading something new in my gallery again!!

Dear Rita and her husband have this beautiful project called Darkwing , it's a fantasy saga written by Davide and soon it will be published also the first comic book, with (amazing) art by Rita.

It was ages that I wanted to paint a fanart for them and when they decided to hold an art contest to celebrate the comic #0 I knew the time was ripe. (yeah, in a nutshell: I needed a deadline... )
I also knew immediately that I wanted to work on a very specific character: Lyse.
Lyse is thirteen. She is cute, she will become a beautiful woman, has a strong attitude but is also sweet. But, most of all, she is thirteen. What a wonderful age to try to capture! You can see the woman she will become, but she is still a child. I enjoyed the challenge!
She has this silver pendant shaped as a lily that is very dear to her, a gift for her thirteen birthday: in my mind I tried to picture how she should have looked while watching her own reflection with the pendant on.

The winner illustration will receive a money prize and be published on the cover, but several non-winning entries will be published in grayscale inside. I knew I wasn't competing for the cover, not working on the main character and doing a simple portrait, I just wanted to make a little tribute for this project and so I worked in grayscale.

Then I received the most unexpected email: they said they had an ex-equo, the talented Andrea Tentori Montalto and me were chosen as winners of the contest and they asked us if we would agree to combine our entry in a single cover! what?
I would have to color mine and Andrea will do the merging. I have complete trust in his ability as a painter so I said "why not? let's do this crazy thing!".
I'm sure it will come out something to be really proud of but I'm also really looking forward to see the result!

Please check also the wonderful illustration Andrea did (such a powerful image, he totally deserved the cover, in my opinion! But there are other considerations apart form the beauty of the image behind the choice made):