In the recent Cosplay day held in Schio, I had talked to two writer-artists engaged in graphic books and comics. I have already written about my talk with Enrico ET Trentin.
Today, I want to write about the second writer-artist - Marco Rosestolato. The below image shows some examples of Marco's art-works (click on images for a bigger view).
Marco is a young artist and his artistic journey in the world of graphic and comic art started five years ago in 2021.
Writer-Artist: Marco Rosestolato
Art Studies: When he was 23 years old, he joined a three-years long art course at the Comic-Art school in Padova.
After completing the course, he started making comics more seriously. He has participated in different comic-art competitions.
Important Works: Recently, he has worked hard to complete a graphic novel series called "Aiutaci Maestro" (Help Me Master), which he has published online. It is targeted at 16+ Young Adults.
"Help me Master" is about the monks of Gyaan Monastery, whose goal is gaining knowledge and reaching towards human perfection. The series is about their adventures in the different dimensions of space-time continuum. (The image below has some examples of his work from this series).
He is very happy with the way the "Help me Master" has turned out. He looks at it as a first step of his carrier in the comic-art world. You can check this graphic novel series on Webtoons and Tapas.
Approach to Working: Marco uses a graphic tablet for designing, like a lot of modern graphic-artists. He finds it very practical and quicker for designing. At the same time, he also likes traditional drawing and art on paper and other materials.
He thinks that it is great to have events like Cosplay in Schio, which allow him to interact with other kinds of artists, which can inspire him to trying new ideas and approaches in his art work.
Making a Living Out of Comic Art: Marco feels that having an economic success from making comic art is very difficult. According to him, having success or not does not depend on having talent as an artist since he knows persons who are very talented but have not achieved a level of success.
His advise is to look at comic art as a creative way for young artists to explore self-expression, but not to think of it as a carrier. It helps in growing creatively, learning to express your ideas, and at the same time, to see what and how others are expressing themselves, to inspire others and to be inspired. His criteria for success is to see if you have something to say which is specific and honest, then you are a successful comic artist.
Marco's Art: You can see the examples of his artworks, how he designs his pages and how he develops his characters on his website as well as on his Instagram page.
In The End
It was wonderful to see how Marco has been able to follow his passion and develop as an artist.
I feel that earlier it was more difficult to become a comic-writer-artist, because publishing comics is costly and finding a publisher and distributor is not easy. Today portals like Webtoon and Tapas, allow you to hone your skills, and if you are persistent, hard-working and talented, you can find your readers and followers. If you can persist, hopefully, one day a contract with an important publishing house may also come, but you can't plan that in today's world because technologies are changing so quickly and the impact of AI is difficult to foresee.
If you dream of writing and illustrating your own graphic books and comics, I hope that reading this post about Marco will inspire you to follow those dreams. As he says, it is difficult, if not impossible, to make a carrier out of this passion, but it is a great way to express your creativity.
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