ARTWORKS by Nico Di Mattia

I was bored and decided to do a new caricature. Now is the turn of a legend: Chuck Norris. Many people asked me: Why him? And I said: Why not?

Some of his facts:
“Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird”
“Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding”
“Chuck Norris counted to infinity… Twice”
“When the Boggeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris”

So… Enough reasons to paint him. Enjoy the process.

Take a look to the caricature of Doctor House. Hope you like it.

Also you can watch the process of the digital painting. (Photoshop & tablet, default brushes and four layers) The music of the video is “Weapon of choice” by FatBoy Slim.

Well, let´s try doing some caricatures… I always enjoyed doing this kind of stuff, and now… “I´m back”

This is a freehand version of Terminator, featured by Arnold. It was done in Photoshop, with a digital tablet and the music is from the movie Terminator 2 (”Bad to the bone”).
Four, maybe five layers in PS.
Enjoy it.

A free version of these two characters of the movie “The Dark Knight”.
Photoshop and digital tablet.

On last June I was in Computex 2008 doing live performances. Computex is a huge technology trade show in Taiwan, in where a lot of brands expose their newest products. In this case, the brand “Genius KYE” (wich makes computer peripherals) invited me there to do a presentation and some illustrations with their digital tablets. They built a special section with three monitors and heavy sound in their booth to me and it was really, really cool. I did a lot of nice paintings (in real time) and a ”live speed painting” of a famous taiwanese girl, who was the main host in the shows. The media and a massive public enjoyed more than 3 days of live presentations.
Here is a video about those performances and you´ll see part of the process of the speedpainting, and of course, me doing it with the Genius digital tablet.

See more about the show clicking HERE.

This is my free version of “Solid Snake”, the main character from the video game “Metal Gear Solid”. All the process done in Photoshop with a digital tablet. It has about 10 layers and a couple of hours of working in the little details.

Hi again! I´m back with this new speedpainting!.  About the technic specs, it has 14 layers on Photoshop, six hours of working, and the background music is from Black Sabbath and Stratovarius as well.
Enjoy it, and see you soon!