Debora - iCosini

I'm a swiss designer in visual communication. iCosini in italian means little things, and they are some little characters I usually draw in freetime.

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[Eng👇️ ] In una vita precedente probabilmente sono stata un'ape. Lo so perché mi piace troppo vedere i fiori, annuasarli, guardarli da vicino. ⁠
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Adoro anche guardare le api, con il loro dorso pelosino, le tasche piene di polline, a fare acrobazie di volo tra una marghe…

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[Eng👇️ ]Questa immagine è stata generata da un'intelligenza artificiale partendo da un mio schizzo.... Che rapporto hai con l'intelligenza artificiale? ⁠
Ti fa paura e la odi, oppure ti affascina e vuoi provare? ⁠
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Io ho deciso di fare degli esperimenti, almeno per farm…

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[Eng👇️ ] Mia mamma è un ninja.⁠
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Come un ninja mia mamma è forte, affronta le difficoltà che la vita le mette davanti. Se cade, si rialza. Se deve, stringe i denti. ⁠
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Come un ninja mia mamma è stata severa, precisa, decisa. Come un ninja mi ha spiegato quali sono le r…

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[Ita👇️ ]What better occasion than International Jazz Day to show you an illustration entitled 'Jazz'? ⁠
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It's a little thing that I drew by first making an ink blot, and then turning it into this cute character. ⁠
I love how he is hearing the music he is playing! ⁠
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Th…

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[Ita👇️ ]As a friend of mine says: happiness is proportional to the soil under your fingernails. ⁠
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Today is World Earth Day - that nice planet we live on. In my own small way, I feel at peace with my senses when I get close to the simplicity, and at the same time magic,…

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[Ita👇️ ]I would like to take the opportunity of International Hamster Day to show you this little drawing I did in December... yes: they have declared an international day for this little animal! ⁠
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Anyway: in December, a fifth-grade class asked me to make a small illus…

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[Eng👇️ ]È una cosa che proprio non riesco ad evitare: prima di mettermi a disegnare, tutta la postazione deve essere perfettamente in ordine. Con il casino non riesco a lavorare. Non mi concentro. ⁠
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Quindi ecco la mia postazione ordinata, pronta per iniziare a disegnar…

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[Ita👇️ ]I suffer from impatience, and I use drawing to try to analyse this part of me and maybe improve it. Like a meditation, I try to externalise what I feel and think.⁠
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I realised that I am impatient because I wanted to do the vegetable garden, even though it is sti…

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[Ita👇️ ]I have a thousand ideas, so I start a thousand projects. But then I find myself struggling to carry them all out. That's what happened last week: I didn't manage to post anything on social media, and I didn't reply until today to the messages I had been sent! ⁠
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[Ita👇️ ]Do you also feel performance anxiety before drawing? 😰 I do. Sometimes I even decide to do something else, so as not to be disappointed with the result. ⁠
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If it happens to you too, I wrote a blog post with some tricks I identified to alleviate, or eliminate, th…

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[Ita👇️ ]A hot air balloon flies free in the sky... flanked by little fish. What, wait what? 😅⁠
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In my imaginary world, in the world of iCosini, I like to place side by side elements and characters that in the real world would not be close at all. Like hot air balloons a…

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[Ita👇️ ]I interrupted the letters of the alphabet to do a drawing I was commissioned to do for greeting cards: the only constraint was the theme, namely the hot air balloon. Being something flying, I was already excited!⁠
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First I did a bit of image research for inspira…

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[Ita👇️ ]I already have my spring bag, what are you waiting for? 😉Products with the design "Ninja among the flowers" available now! ⁠
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At Society6 you can find a wide variety of products with this new design, and right now THERE'S A PROMOTION ON: take advantage of it now…

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[Ita👇️ ]Figuring out which greeting card to get your friends just got a whole lot simpler! I've added three new designs to my Etsy shop that capture three of the four seasons. Get one for all the loved ones in your life and show them you care all year round 🤗 Check the link …

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[Ita👇️ ]Can you tell what letter this is? ⁠
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🇨🇭🇮🇹 ITALIANO⁠
Riuscite a capire che lettera è questa? ⁠
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🎨 Tools I use: ⁠
@sakura_europe Pigma Micron pen 005 black #micronpen⁠
@hahnemuehle_global watercolor paper ⁠

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[Ita👇️ ]Do you also want to make an iCosini-style letter D? ⁠
I created this digital product... download a pdf, print it, and you can colour it as you like! ⁠
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You can use pencils or watercolours (print it on a slightly thick sheet of paper for best results).⁠
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In the …

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[Ita👇️ ]It never seemed to end... and instead! I did it! The design with the ninja among the little flowers is finished. It represents spring (evidently!) and goes to accompany autumn, which I have already drawn. ⁠
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I will soon make numbered prints of it, in only 6 piec…

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[Ita👇️ ]Have I started a new project? Maybe... 😜 this is the first drawing, to be followed by others... can you imagine what it will become? Let me know in comments what do you think!⁠
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🇨🇭🇮🇹 ITALIANO⁠
Ho iniziato un nuovo progetto? Forse… questo è il primo disegno, a cu…

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[Ita👇️ ]Did you notice that I took a break from social media? ⁠
The end of last year, especially the month of December, was hectic! 🤯⁠
I only had a week's holiday, where I tried to unplug and recharge my batteries with energy and inspiration... I saw that the world didn'…

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[Ita👇️ ]"I draw your tips for regaining energy", part two. ⁠
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On Saturday I asked my instagram followers how they can regain energy after a stressful period... and I had fun drawing the ideas that came to me by message! ⁠
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I got so many tips, I had to split them into t…