"ODE TO MY CHILDHOOD"

"ODE TO MY CHILDHOOD" is a series of illustrations dedicated to all those things that made me tingle when i was a child, from cartoon characters,video games or even toys, but i will paint them with a more realistic look, trying to stay as close to the original design as i can.

you can follow this illustrations in any of my sites, i will upload new ones every week.

i hope you enjoy them!

"FAT HEROES"

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• "FAT HEROES" is a personal project, in which i take the famous super heroes and paint them with a different approach.

  "DC" was the first one, and because so many people liked it, i decided to do a complete series of them.

  
  In this series my main focus was on the idea, so i tried to keep the painting simple and fun, here you can see characters from the "DC" world like, "Batman", "Robin", "Superman" and "Flash", as well as characters from"Marvel", such as the "Avengers", "Spider Man", "Fantastic Four" and the "X Men", also from "Capcom" some"Street Fighter" characters and of course the beloved "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".

  
  Also i've included a tutorial step by step and a speed painting video on how to paint one of them, in this case the  "X Men", done for: "design.tutsplus.com".
  
  

  http://design.tutsplus.com/articles/the-making-of-heavy-heroes--psd-29626
  
  

Also Here is a link to the full idea behind the design of this guys.

I hope you like it!

A little bit about Myself and my Art

Hi, my name is Carlos Dattoli, if you ask me what is my passion, I will say, to paint, to draw, to write, to create, if you ask me what I do for a living, I will say my passion… but saying this, means that my passion eventually could also become a job if I let it, a meaningless job, so I like to take every job as a new adventure, a new way to learn something, doesn't matter if it is just a technical improvement or a life changing journey, the important thing for me is to not  get lost in the way, so as this famous quote say," Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life".

This way, whenever  I paint for me or for a client, i give my whole effort, there is not a small client or a small idea, I believe that every single work can be great if it means something to someone, so when i start a project, I become the project, and for as long as the project lasts, it will be mine too and I will do it as good as I possibly can.

so yes, I'm a very passionate person, without passion there is not life, and without life there is not passion, so I want to take this incredible and very unlikely journey we call life, to put passion and meaning in everything that I do, and if you look closely to my work you will find this in every single piece.

I want to use this blog not only to write about my art, but about myself, my ideas and what is behind every piece or every choice I take.

I always say that you can't  simplify a human being with a simple description, and so you can't  simplify an artist either, because we all have a lot of faces, even not everyone approach them.

So a very important thing to know about myself in terms of my art, is that you would never see me doing the same thing over and over, i don't want to limit myself into choosing only one path, and why should i? what I mean, is that I enjoy doing a piece of art for children's book the same way as I enjoy doing a piece of concept art for an older audience, a humorous  illustration or an philosophical one, a commercial one, or a personal, doesn't matter, at the end of the day I will put all my effort into it and I will get the job done.

(English is not my native language so i will try to write as clear as i can)

Thank you for reading 

Carlos Dattoli