Who am i
“We see potential in her, but she draws”
Said my teachers during high school years. Although it was an artistic institute, class timetable did not provide enough hours to tire me of pencil and eraser. Luckily, at Scuola del Fumetto, in Milan, drawing while teachers explain is encouraged, rather almost required! Flavio Ferron, Alberto Savini and Silvio Speca for three years reproved, supported, guided and introduced me in the world of comics. They gave me means of orienting myself in the mazes of anatomy, color, perspective, image building and screenplay, illustrating and designing with a free hand or using Photoshop, with or without ink, pencil or pen, on paper or napkins.
Because ever since I was a child, my primary need has always been drawing, and it was accompanied by the curiosity to make odd objects or to replicate what I saw around me. This gradually evolved into my full-time job, which I have been doing for several years now. The hardest part is actually believing it. I am very lucky, because I have a partner and a friend (Kristina) who seriously believe in it and they pushed me to give art a chance.
In my free time, I get lost in fantasy. It is this passion for fantasy that stimulates and follows me in almost everything I do. I draw Fantasy, I play its music, I make and wear it. Starting from tabletop role-playing games, already a passion, the step towards LARP world was pretty quick. In 2005, I began sewing costumes for friends so I could pay my little expenses during school years, and this was my first encounter with fabrics, feathers, leather, resins and many materials and tools. Now, more than fifteen years later, I am myself main customer… and a very demanding one! I like having costumes and accessories that are not only beautiful but even comfortable and durable.
In 2011, this became my main activity and, year after year, my job evolved and I let go some techniques to learn others that helped meeting my customers’ needing. I started my own small business and now, I have a photographer and social media manager, and an occasional employee. After more than a thousand commissions, of which I followed the entire production process, from conception, to realization and shipment, I am changing direction towards original costumes and masks, realizing customers’ or my own ideas and projects. Actually, I am exploring folk mythology of different parts of the word, because I love legends and traditions, seeking to give my own vision to these mysterious and charming characters.
