May 11, 2013
For week #2 of May Mixers (part of my year long Daily Drawing challenge) I am doing some Fan Art with some of my favorite international characters. Today is’s Italian comic lengend Hugo Pratt with his iconic pirate character Corto Maltese. The character is one of the most familiar in european comics and has even inspired a clothing line http://www.hugoprattforcortomaltese.it/.
What I love about Hugo Pratt’s art is not just one character or story, but his over all skill as an artist and storyteller. His work is clean and simple seeming with lines that look deceptively simple.
From the official site: “Corto Maltese, a cult favorite in one of the best European graphic novels, is a veritable legend in twentieth century literature. He’s a traveler – a sailor who combines Mediterranean looks with Anglo-Saxon culture. Corto, meaning “quick” in Spanish, was created in 1967 by Hugo Pratt, a native of Venice. Corto is an anti-hero who prefers his freedom and imagination to wealth. He is a modern Ulysses who takes us traveling to some of the most fascinating places in the world.
His adventures are set during the first thirty years of the 1900s, between Venice, the steppes of Manchuria, the Caribbean islands, the Danakil deserts, the Amazon forests, and the waves of the Pacific.”
My Daily Drawing for May 2013 are going to be a bit different with multiple themes for the “May Mixer” with a different theme each week.
• See all the May Mixer-International daily drawings here: http://atomicbearpress.com/category/orginal_art/daily-sketch-orginal_art/may-mixer-international/
• See ALL the daily drawings here: http://atomicbearpress.com/category/orginal_art/daily-sketch-orginal_art/
