Leone-Irlandese

It has been a while...a very good while.  After all of that talk about a Prodigal Son returning 2 years ago, only to pull of Dwayne Johnson In Wrestling and leave again, I think now is the time to finally stick around for a while or more. Much is in the making, and updates will happen a lot more here from now on.  For example, look!  I finally put up an avatar!  Let that just be the beginning.

It's been nearly 2 years since I decided to abandon this page and form a new account under a different name (ClementsSan), and a lot has changed since then.  I graduated with a degree in Creative Imaging, and during that time managed to interview some very nice and very helpful Manga-Kas for my thesis.  Other than that, I've been working primarily on Childrens Book illustrations and writing a murder mystery comic book.  I have decided to bring this profile out of retirement, so do expect to see some new work up here soon!

People - I'm moving profiles, to 1 that will be a lot more business and portfolio based.  Ever since signing up to this site several years ago, this has been a good place to show off some of my work as I progressed and refined different skills that I hope to apply a lot more on a professional basis. Leone Irlandese was once an attempt to create Pseudonym, and certainly when I was younger I thought it would have been a good name to use professionally, until I realised that it isn't easily remembered or pronounced outside of Italy.  Reading Koji Aihara and Kentaro Takekuma's book "Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga" really changed the way I looked a