Suspense Magazine November 2012

Dark Corner
Fabrizio Panattoni is a self-taught digital
artist with two years of experience. He
trained himself by following a lot of guides
for Photoshop. He now has the means to
express what he feels through his works.
Fabrizio was born in Livorno, Italy, in
1977. He studied accountancy for five years
and then proceeded in his studies with
foreign-languages in Pisa, Italy.
In 2005, he started to work as a mooring
man in the port of Livorno and still holds this
position.
He approached the digital world in
2010, thanks to a friend of his. She showed
him her digital pieces and he fell in love
with that type of art. He decided to deepen
his limited knowledge of Photoshop and
developed image processing, and started to
combine photographs together creating his
first amateur “puzzles.”
Day by day, he improved his works
studying new techniques in terms of
photomanipulations (the art of merging
parts of different pictures together). He
felt more comfortable with his art so he
started to publish his pieces over the
Internet on DeviantArt.com. Fabrizio
met a lot of people in the Deviant Art
community who so graciously helped
him to improve even more. He reached
almost one thousand viewers that stimulated him to improve his skills in order to transmit his emotions to the audience.
That’s why he finds himself still reading tutorials and accepting constructive criticism from people who are captured by what
he’s creating.
Many of Fabrizio’s creations are portraits. He loves to re-paint beautiful women’s faces and put them into new scenes.
This is the main way he shows what he feels inside. In fact, his art has mostly an emotional style. He’s also created dark, gothic,
and fantasy pieces. His subjects offer a vivid range of colors, dramatic lighting, and a painted look.
He got a lot from the art community and his way to thank people is writing tutorials and offering free stocks. That’s the
reason why he’s received a lot of encouragement from other artists, numerous features, and interviews.
Fabrizio continues with his main job, but he would like also to become a professional, part-time artist. We wish him luck
and joy with his dream.
Suspense Magazine is proud to bring you our exclusive interview with this month’s talented artist, Fabrizio Panattoni.
Suspense Magazine (S. MAG.): Started as an accountant, and now you have a wonderful dream of becoming a part-time
professional artist. How do you make the leap What started your inspiration Was it only your friend’s artwork Or was it a
spark that you always had, just getting ignited
Fabrizio Panattoni (FP): The step from accountant to professional is kind of hard considering that there are a lot of talented
artists out there.
Anyway, starting with the fact I couldn’t leave my first job, my maximum aspiration would be creating book or CD covers. I was
commissioned for pieces by many people, but only for personal use. I thought ‘this could be a beginning.’ I create my pieces to
express myself, so if my art career doesn’t take off professionally, I will be happy anyway.
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