by Daniele Rossi | Oct 9, 2011 | blog, creativity, illustration
My second sketchbook video features my followup pocket Moleskine from 2007ish (unlike the first one, I didn’t date my sketches). I remember this time vividly. I loved the idea of having sketchbooks full of colourful works of art however I ended up forcing myself...
by Daniele Rossi | Oct 7, 2011 | blog, creativity, illustration, news
I’ve been sketching in sketchbooks for years now and have them all sitting on a few shelves. No one will able to see any of my sketches unless they came over and flipped through the sketchbooks. Even if someone wanted to, it most likely wouldn’t happen...
by Daniele Rossi | Sep 29, 2011 | creativity, illustration
The third release in my “tech joke” cover ebook series is 1950s short sci-fi story, The Stutterer by R.R. Merliss. My goal with the series is to create ebooks with illustrative covers of literature in the public domain. I design the covers using comparable...
by Daniele Rossi | Sep 27, 2011 | creativity, illustration
The second book I illustrated and released as an ebook in my “tech joke” series was Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer. First published in 1879, it’s about a female telegraph operator who falls in love with a male telegrapher over the wire. Yup, chat...
by Daniele Rossi | Sep 24, 2011 | creativity, illustration
Over the next few days, I’ll be blogging about the inspiration and decisions behind the 3 ebooks covers I illustrated, assembled into actual ebooks and launched last week. The gimmick here is I choose public domain books available on Project Gutenberg and...
by Daniele Rossi | Sep 19, 2011 | creativity, illustration
One of the projects I have been working on is creating cover illustration art work for classic novels. My shtick here is to use today’s digital culture references in the illustrations. My other shtick is to package them with the classic novels themselves and...
