SixFanarts That I Made For My Account On Instagram!

Those palletes are so pretty!! Could you do 11 with Ludwig B. ? Thanks!!

a blushing ludwig is the best ludwig 

thank you for the request!!

Here's something I made as practice! I'm not completely happy with this because it feels rather impersonal, but at the same time I'm proud to have managed to step this much outside my comfort zone 🌟

hannigram fanart for a challenge with my friends <3

so! some of the people who follow me have shown interest in having some of my prints and i've said to them i would have gone to the print shop during this week, but my current job is really making it impossible -- i work in a library who among other things sells schoolboks, and with the start of the school year in italy i have to work overtime almost everyday. i will try to go again to the shop the next week. in any case i will stop working with the start of october, so in the extreme case i should not find time to print the paintings in this month i promise i will fix everything during the next. i'm so sorry for making you wait for so long 😢

merry christmas to those who celebrate it! and, even if you don't, may you have a lovely day!!

thank you so much @hercorrupterofwords for the tag 💌💌

last song: sat in your lap by kate bush

last book: modern architecture by otto wagner because today i had an exam of contemporary architecture. and before wagner le corbusier. and before le corbusier loos. i love contemporary architecture but i am a bit tired i confess

last movie: 2023 renfield. i had to counterbalance nosferatu. it's trash but it's trash made with love and i enjoyed it more than i expected to. also i am a renfield/knock girlie since i was 14

last TV show: probably the death note 2015 drama? months ago

sweet/savory/spicy: spicy

relationship status: single and frankly more confused than ever by the intricacies of human relationships

last thing I looked up on the internet: ineffable space: le corbusier's colour schemes for the monastery sainte marie de la tourette

current obsession: death note

looking forward to: sleep......

tag: whoever wants to. i give you the permission to say that i have tagged you if you want to do this

just noticed that i wrote “shubert” instead of “schubert” under the latest fanart, now i’ve changed the caption

i found your blog earlier this week and i love your art! i especially like the way you paint renaissance dress! 💕💕 if it's not rude to ask, where do you find your refs?

Thank you so much, I'm glad you like my art!! 🥺🥺💜

And don't worry, your ask is not rude, on the contrary! I'm more than happy to help - even if I want to specify now that I'm not at all an expert in historical fashion, so please don't believe that the outfits I draw are always 100% historically accurate. Also, almost everything I know concerns Italian Renaissance, so if you need reference for, let's say, German Renaissance I'm afraid I will not be that helpful 😔

Anyway! What I do when I want to draw Renaissance clothes is to look at art history! Luckily the Renaissance is a time where a lot of portrait have been made, and sometimes even religious or pagan artworks can be of help!

For example, for Venice I would search for the portraits by Titian or Giovanni Bellini to start, or also for the paintings by Vittore Carpaccio (the "Storie di Sant'Orsola" cycle is GREAT for outfit references). The same goes for other territories, for example a good start for Florence would be Domenico Ghirlandaio, or for Mantua the "Camera degli Sposi" by Andrea Mantegna and so on for the other cities.

If you don't know that many artist (as is my case when I want to draw someone from a place outside of Italy) you can start researching by finding portraits of the governors of the territory that you want to target! For example, let's say that you want to put a character at the start of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, so you ask yourself (and you ask internet): who was the first Grand Duke? Cosimo I de Medici. Cool, do we have a portrait of him? The first one we find in wikipedia is by Bronzino. Has Bronzino made other portraits? Yes! And you already have some references.

Alternatively, you can look up who were the wife and children of Cosimo, and search for portraits of them.

Some disclaimers about this method are:

Mostly the people who had portraits of them made were noblemen and noblewoman, and they posed wearing their best outfits, so be careful if you want to take them as a reference for common people!

Many times religious or pagan paintings are set in renaissance times in terms of outfits, but they are still stories from another time and age, so I wouldn't be surprised if the artists took a few liberties with the clothes

Then as now, fashion trends changed, so I would keep an eye on the dates in which the paintings were made

Some other references:

I feel some artist do a much better work than mine when researching historical clothes, for example @aph--lietuva draws amazing clothes! If you have instagram, I love the work of toscasam, who always puts a great care in researching the clothes of her characters!

I'll also leave some photos from a book I have at home, but please consider:

These are all references took from paintings, so all the disclaimers I listed above still stand;

I found this book in a vintage shop and it has been printed in 1959, so I’m sure you will find much more nuanced modern publications out there;

The captions are in Italian, but I'll leave them here anyway because the years of the clothes are still understandable

Italian Renaissance:

German:

Spanish:

Also, IF SOMEONE READING THIS POST HAS BETTER REFERENCES, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ADD INFORMATIONS IN THE REBLOGS! The more sources we have, the better!

Lastly, I would like to end this post by saying that despite the researches I'm more than willing to take some liberties when I draw. I'm an artist and not an historian, and whenever I feel like I'm limited by the lack of references I don't dwell too much on it and prioritize the completeness of the drawing by adding things from my mind, so don't rely too much on my art if you are looking for historical accuracy!

And that's all it comes to my mind about the topic. I hope I have been helpful (and clear, I know I still have some problems with the English language 🥲)! Thank you so much for the question and have a lovely day <3

I don't want to disturb but could you please do Naples x Milan they are my otp 😅❤️❤️ Love your art and happy new years 🎉

Happy New Year to you as well ✨🌺

i wanted them to kiss