Felt Illustrations by Jacopo Rosati

I know I have said it before, and I am sure I'll say it again, but there's just something to be said for hand-crafted work. As hard as we try, there is not a way to 100% imitate what can only be done by hand, whether that is cutting out paper, panting, or using felt. Felt, is the medium of choice for Italian illustrator Jacopo Rosati. After working digitally for some years, he became bored and decided it was time to start working with his hands again. I think that this is sentiment all artists feel at some point. Sometimes you have to take a step back from the computer, and try something else for awhile.Despite the peculiar medium, you can definitely see Rosati's graphic design background reflected in his work. I remember the days when I would spend hours cutting shapes out of sticky-back felt for school projects. They never turned out this good, that's for sure. About his switch to working with felt, Rosati said "I've spent the whole year of 2012 developing a new style. I was kind of bored about working only with vector illustration, I was seeking for a new unique style, something more warm, something that I can make with bare hands. I chose fuzzy felt because it's a kind of material which isn't used too much as a pure graphical media. My goal was to develop flat bi-dimensional collages, paper is already very used in illustration, plus it can't guarantee the same hardness than Fuzzy Felt does. I've started with personal works, an then editors and art directors started to ask me this kind of artworks. These are the results of an year of efforts!" http://youtu.be/AIWXm47T3fc