EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 34 by Book Palace Books * 96 PAGES IN FULL EDITION

69 because I didn’t have time to do both, I still found a way of sharing whatever I had learnt and could teach under other forms. I love to experiment with new techniques or discovering a new type of paper. I also like teaching the key principles for drawing . . . I don’t know, like the hair, for example. Many new artists struggle with learning how to draw that. FACING PAGE: Manu , pencil and liquid watercolour on board, 2003. As Sicomoro explains, “Manu is always wearing a large leather jacket, a detail that I made up to make the character feel more real.” ABOVE: Top left panel of page 43 from the second volume of ‘La Porte au Ciel’, pencil on watercolour board, 2008. LEFT: Homage to Carl Barks , pencil on paper, 1994. “My editor at the time told me that Carl Barks was visiting Rome, and I, along with other artists, did drawings as a homage to the great master, which were handed over to him. Unfortunately, I never met him personally.”