Ester Cardella - 1 Original drawing - Dracula - Vampira sexy

Beautiful original drawing by Ester Cardella, created on Blood Hunt 1 Variant edition DRACULA on a red blank cover.

The drawing is done with pencils, black ink, and white ink.

The artist worked both on the Dracula logo, embellishing it with white points of light, and by drawing a sexy vampire across the entire surface of the blank cover.

Signed in original.

Ester Cardella was born in that part of the peninsula that once was Magna Graecia, more precisely in Palermo; in 1992.

She studied in her hometown at the artistic high school, then completed her studies at the Palermo comic school. But to trace the origins of her passion for drawing we have to go back in time, to before school, yes, because Ester has, since childhood, lived drawing as an act of beauty both sensorially and emotionally. The author herself describes drawing as: «the most beautiful and intense possibility of escape, for me drawing is therapy, self-discovery, exploration».

Even though surely studies have done their part, it is Ester's dedication and constant search that bring her to be the author we know today, one step at a time and illustration after illustration. Her signature is not dictated only by the name on the panels; her hand is recognizable in the details. The confident and steady stroke becomes sinuous precisely along the right curves to emphasize the aesthetics of the characters. The coloring, often monochrome, alternates solid fills with hatching, always with the aim of highlighting the action and the figures at play. When the scene requires it she adds a touch of color; a bit of red that harmonizes perfectly with the dark tones, placing the emphasis where it’s needed.

Ester seems to form a connection with the illustration, and perhaps that empathy truly comes to life. In fact, the author works exclusively in traditional media, carefully selecting all materials (from paper to inks), hence the act of drawing begins primarily in Ester's mind, extending and manifesting itself through the hand. In this regard she tells us that: “I only draw by hand, with brushes, markers, and inks; I love paper and its varieties.”
The range of work Ester does has led her to work directly with a very varied clientele. Her clients include the classic private client who wants an authorial illustration, up to anthologies, and even musical bands.
A collaboration in particular, still ongoing, is worth noting and a few more lines. It is the collaboration with the German magazine Feral, for which Ester is producing a serialized story (taking care of both the texts and the drawings) featuring a decidedly cruel vampire as the protagonist.

Her preference for what can be considered concrete and tangible leads the artist not only to work directly by hand on various kinds of paper and with different materials, but this attitude also takes her to fairs and to try to be present wherever she is invited: Palermo, Trapani, Agrigento, Etna Comics (for which she collaborated with Zerocalcare on the poster; Zerocalcare did the regular and Ester the variant), Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence, Croatia, Malta, Berlin; these are only some of the places that have hosted Ester Cardella and her art.

Ester places great importance on being there for those who experience her art. The ability to be present not only enables contact with the public and the irreplaceable opportunity to speak face to face with her patrons, but there is something else that drives her to strive to be always present at the fair.
With her presence, she reinforces and sharpens the message she conveys through her work: 'eroticism is not simply about stripping a body, but knowing how to move it'.