Tu che di gel sei cinta,Da tanta fiamma vinta.[ You who are bound by ice,overcome by so much flame.

Tu che di gel sei cinta,
Da tanta fiamma vinta.

[ You who are bound by ice,
overcome by so much flame. ]
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A night at the opera, anyone?
Not a mistery: I really like Opera, and couldn’t resist planning some themed illustration for the main character of my most recent Webcomic (Click!). Each character will be theme-driven, but I have to say that Nessun Dorma aria was surely an inspiration for her. (Calaf is an asshole, and he doesn’t deserve that gorgeous aria, btw.).
The costume is inspired by a persian stylist, while the shoulder piece was from the sketches of the very first representation of Turandot, back in 1926. It’s so iconic and cool I couldn’t resist keeping it, with a more fitting for her actual provenience neck opening.
Oh, this is traditional, made in Uni Poscas and Molotov acrylic markers!
Hope you like it! :D

Till Queendom Come is a project about an Indian Rakshasi who’s trying to find her lost heart after the East India Company stole it, a Jotunn who didn’t feel like going back to Norway after the Vikings invasions, and the youngest granddaughter of the last druid of St. Ives who’s now trying to keep on the family tradition on her own in spite of being the wrong gender to do so.
Started as a project set in Edwardian England, born in a urge of sudden irritation about seeing Victoria being romanticised everywhere by a  cynical comic artist who majored in English. You can read it here on Instagram under the hashtag #oscarpoppins (which was its unofficial title until now and in my mind will always be), or on Webtoon looking for Till Queendom Come.