The fourth featured artwork for the Art for Artemis project is from Stefano Trabucchi from Italy, studying at the Scuola Internazionale di Comics :

I’m studying at the “Scuola Internazionale di Comics” school in Turin. I studied digital illustration for a year in 2020/2021 and I am currently studying concept art at the same school, which will take me up to 2023.

Credits: S. Trabucchi

Tell us about the technique used to make your Art for Artemis piece

I worked on the piece using Adobe Photoshop 2020, as I learned in my first year at school. The first thing I did was drawing a couple of thumbnails of different ideas I had, and I then chose the best one and began to refine it. First with a simple line art and then with flat colours and lot of paint over. One of the things I like the most of this piece is the sky, because I used a picture I took on the top of the mountain “Scale”, near where I live, while camping with my friends.

What inspired you to make the artwork and who are your inspirations in general?

When my school wrote me that I could participate in this contest because of my votes I was a little apprehensive. I have made art for a lot of years, but not at this level and not to these abilities. I decided to try, and it was my first art contest. So happy to see that my piece is appreciated! The illustration is inspired by the photograph “Raising the flag on Iwo Jima” by Joe Rosenthal and, even if it is a picture of war, when I see it, I always feel the power of collaboration, to reach a goal all together. And I think that’s the point of human evolution, trying doing something altogether to do something more, to reach further goals, as with space travel.

One day I hope that I can make my hobby that is illustration (and concept art) into a job. My dream is to be able to do it everywhere while I journey around the world to collect references and experiences.

Do you have any thoughts to share about the Moon and human spaceflight?

I admit being a little ignorant in all of this… I’m lucky to have a couple of friends (and a big brother) who are really interested in what’s happening at ESA and NASA, so I asked them a lot before trying to make the piece. I think that’s part of our evolution and I love all the technologies used to reach the goal. I think about my parents and grandparents who watched the first landing on the moon… it seems like we could experience it as well!

Anything else you would like to add…

Only thank you for the opportunity gave to me. I don’t really know if it will get me anywhere, but I keep dreaming of doing this in my life, even if I’m not as young as the usual junior artist because I’ve been employed for 10 years already before trying this route, so each step is real happiness for me and this is, I feel, is a big step!

Many thanks,

Stefano Trabucchi

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