Sara Forlenza

Location: Italy Web: www.saraforlenza.com Email: contact@saraforlenza.com Software: Photoshop, Painter

Sara was originally attracted to traditional media, particularly acrylics. But the Bergamo-based artist found she couldn’t express herself in the way she’d like. Inspired by artists such as Todd Lockwood and Matt Stawicki, she turned to digital painting.

Each stage of Sara’s artwork is created digitally – including sketches, for which she uses her Cintiq. The artist has developed a clean, sharp style redolent of the Blizzard illustrations that she finds so inspirational. Sara’s been working as a freelancer since 2006, finding clients in the likes of Paizo Publishing, Dena Studios and Armenia Editore.

1 Don’t Even Think About It “I wanted to reinterpret the classic theme of the beauty and the beast in a sharp and ironic way. I worked a lot on the expression of the protagonist’s face, because I wanted it show her tough personality.” 2 Eros and...