We’re amazed at how easily all the other-worldly forms, flora and fauna seem to pop out of Sarah Mazzetti’s imagination. They have decorated a range of event posters, maybe most notably for the year’s Green Man festival, as well as editorial spreads, comics, and animation.
Her passion for screen printing is apparent, not only in the interesting use of overlays in her work but also in the fact that she teaches a screen printing and independent publishing workshop in Milan. She also shares her love of comics working on the self-publishing label that she co-curates called Teiera, which publishes many other illustrators very much worth your time. She talks about what’s important to her when working on an image.
My process starts by drawing the outlines of my illustration by hand, then I color digitally using selection tools in Photoshop. From an aesthetic point of view, I like to create a balance between large areas of colors, and more detailed parts, in a way I’d like to create abstract combination of shapes that turn into figurative and recognisable things eventually.
This of course doesn’t apply to everything I do, when I do short comics or narrative things the process is a bit different, and the search for a provocative and a bit surreal and busier atmosphere is the main thing I care about.
I’m influenced by many different things, and very often I get charmed by authors or personalities I admire rather then visual artists, so I try to bring something that goes beyond a nice composition to my work, I hope it shows, but I think I will never be completely satisfied with what I do, I get bored with myself easily!
© Sarah Mazzetti, 2013
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