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Inter — the manager shouting from the touchline

ILLUSTRATION — FOOTBALL — 2017-2021

Inter

Match nights drawn as frames from an anime — the shout, the roar, the arms open to an empty stand. Faces cut into flat planes, the crowd left as pure blur and light.

Football at the moment the face stops being a face and becomes a shape.

Each piece starts from a broadcast still and keeps only what the camera could not decide: the depth of field, the stadium reduced to bands of colour, the light behind a head. The figure is then rebuilt in hard facets, so the drawing reads as animation cel rather than portrait.

Where the emotion peaks, drawn energy takes over — lightning bolts and speed shards laid straight over the photograph, in the colours of the shirt that earned them.

a fan's season, drawn

No brief, no client — just an Inter fan drawing his way through a season.

This is a personal project. It started in 2017, for no reason other than pleasure: I watched the matches as a supporter, and when an image stayed with me longer than the result did, I drew it. Matchday after matchday, the illustrations began to follow the calendar — a private season-long sketchbook that grew alongside the table.

Sport is where I find the dynamics I like most in an image: bodies under load, a gesture that lasts half a second, tension that reads before you understand what happened. Football hands you those frames for free — my only job is to decide which one deserves to be held still.

Inter — the manager shouting from the touchline

la furia di conte

Inter — a striker screaming, pink lightning bursting from him

01 — the scream, drawn as voltage

Inter — a player with arms open to the stand

02 — arms open, nobody in the stand

Inter — a player holding up the blue glove, white shards radiating

03 — the gesture that ends the celebration

04 — napoli

Verona vs Inter — the goalInter vs Napoli — the shout after the saveInter vs Napoli — no goal at the line

inked frames — napoli fixture

05 — torino

Torino — the striker mid-runInter — finger to the sky, lightning behindInter vs Torino — the wall of players

inked frames — torino fixture

06 — portraits

Nainggolan — head down after the whistle Verdi, Bologna — seen from behind in the rain

two opponents, drawn the same week

07 — brozović

Brozović — hand to the jaw Brozović — shouting, hands on hips

one player, one acid ground

08 — the pitch

Inter — captain, opponent and referee before kick-off Inter — the penalty seen from above

green, from the stand and from the sky

09 — the derby

Derby — the manager looking up, in ink Derby — hands over the ears, red eight Derby — the arm out, protesting

ink and one red — the other half of milan

Inter — fist clenched, head back, blue brushstrokes behind

10 — the fist, on one brushstroke

Icardi — walking away with the ball under his arm

11 — nine, walking off with the ball

Icardi mid-stride, the stand painted in acid blue and green

12 — the stride, the whole stand behind it

13 — on the ball

Icardi mid-stride, the stand painted in acid blue and green Inter — carrying the ball past two defenders at dusk

painted grounds — the crowd and the dusk

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