Helmut Lotti as a Christmas present
Helmut Lotti is a Flemish singer who achieved worldwide success. He sold more than fifteen million albums. He has sung duets with Andrea Bocelli, Montserrat Caballé, Eros Ramazzotti, Placido Domingo, Cliff Richard...
He became locally known at the age of nineteen after his participation in the Dutch Soundmixshow.
From 1995 he broke through internationally with a series of "classic" albums: light versions of classical repertoire and symphonic versions of world repertoire...
Helmut Lotti, world famous Flemish singer, for many an ideal gift for the Christmas tree! :-)
First sketches and attempts...
My caricatures always have to grow... I never succeed just like that, I have to try, search, work on it, refine it ...
Only in this way do I finally get to my final line drawing...
This was my 2nd illustration that I painted with gouache. An additional advantage of gouache was
that I no longer had to trace my final pencil drawing with the light box on clean drawing paper...
I made a photocopy on drawing paper...
...I could now cover that photocopy with gouache. This was not possible with my former watercolor paint.
Saved some time again! :-)
The printed result always differs from the original. Probably less in expensive art books, but certainly in regular magazines. Sometimes frustrating for the artist,
but on the other hand you get an audience. So you have to add some water to the wine ...