Roma. An invitation to travel

I am Italian, I live and work in Roma, and I really wanted to share my love for this city.

For this project, I tried and found how Rome and its great monuments would appear to some child’s eyes, from his height. I had fun looking through his eyes, through his imagination.

Thus it is a poetic trip, and I hope it will take you far away.

I started to draw Rome a few months ago, with the purpose to make children travel with me. It seems to me that dreams are a wonderful way to discover new landscapes. You have to let your imagination drive your thoughts… Grab a balloon, and fly to a whole new universe… 

Extracts :

Description :

Youth album, size 240 x 170 mm

64 pages

Printed on Fedrigoni paper

Hard cover

The book will be published by the Éditions Nomades in the Au fil des Images collection:

This collection proposes original and poetic projects, in which one illustrator can fully express himself, and where the reader’s imagination is free to wander. It is a collection of graphic literature, and pictures alone carry the story.

A preface, usually written by a specialist of the country where the story takes place, will help parents to understand the book and its meanings.

Between the guide and the art book, the text-free album allows, with a playful and artistic point of view, to introduce a new country both to children and adults, and invites them to travel.

I am Roberto, and I am an illustrator. I studied in the Art University and in the CinematographyExperimental Center, in Rome.

I make costumes for movies, and graduated under the direction of my mentor Piero Tosi. My learning of painting, costume making and portrait drawing has led me to illustration for several years now. In Italia, I already illustrated books for many publishers, especially texts from Charles Dickens.

I live and work in Rome, where my works are regularly shown in exhibitions; I also teach drawing and painting.

I really am passionate about illustration for youth, as I like poetic, melancholic and romantic atmospheres. My illustrations are rather lively, for I like to show the epic, the monumental sensations you feel when in front of Rome architecture.

My universe, my workshop, my drawings: