3D Drawings By Marcello Barenghi

His name is Marcello Barenghi, he is an illustrator and graphic designer living in Milan (Italy), where he was born in 1969 and where he attended the Art School "Umberto Boccioni", the School of Applied Arts "Arte e Messaggio" (Castello Sforzesco) and graduated in Architecture from the Polytechnic University.
As a child he show great artistic skills, when he was 9 years old he was impressed from the Leonardo's Mona Lisa and he tried to reproduce it. The 70's were the years of the makers, the superhero of Marvel and Japanese robots and his favorites were Spiderman, Gig and Mazinger. In the 80's he discovered the colored pencils, but he immediately felt the need to find out a different technique that would allow him to cover large areas, shading and avoid the grainy look of colored pencils. Meanwhile, at school he started drawing from life using the blood-red pencil and he began learning the techniques of tempera, watercolors and clay modeling.
Finally, in 1985, the discovery of the airbrush allowed him to improve the texture of his illustrations. In those years, he was fascinated by Derek Riggs, the legendary illustrator of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden; for several years he worked on the figure of Eddie The Head and on his way to represent it. In the late '80s, while attending the school "Art and message" in Milan, he met other artists who influenced his education. They are all extraordinary designers, for their technique and vision: Hajime Sorayama and his amazing chrome robot, Tanino Liberatore and his magnificent Ranxerox, the great Eleuteri Serpieri and his beautiful Druna, Richard Corben and Simon Bisley. At least, their style and also the visual power of Tim Burton, author and director of unforgettable images, environments and architectures are very close to his ideal beauty. His works are result both of these influences and from his personal research.