Alessandro Marrella

Exercise drawing natural elements

There is no room for the fourth lol

At the end of a watercolor class I was taking, the assignment was to draw anything we wanted.

Lucca Comics was what started it all.

Back to it after a long break.

Started 3d scanning my apartment undergoing renovations.

This cool fella was sleeping on the wall just above the bed.

Pita really doesn't like rain

Say hi to Arya

Say hi to Milo :)

Hello from the Isola d'Elba, Italy!

As part of a drawing class I'm taking, I had to create a composition between a 2d drawing and a still life drawn in class.

Went to GDG Pisa DevFest today, favorite talks: Flutter and Game development: where to begin?

Really proud of doing a small exhibition today after taking a few watercolor classes @ Imago Pisa :)

Inspired from this Pinterest

A quick workaround to avoid people doing "SELECT *" on your tables (which I consider harmful, see stackoverflow) in BigQuery is the following: Create a policy tag in the policy tags page.

I recently had to set up a new Mac for programming.

I started taking an amateaur illustration class, yesterday we learned a bit about watercolors so I decided to give it a go drawing Pita, my dog.

Just a quick update: I know I haven't being posting in a while, between end-of-year work, holidays, flu, and back to work I didn't have much time.

The "last" chapter (there are actually two more, but they are more about applying creativity to other fields and some concluding remarks on finding the artist within you) of the "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" book by Betty Edwards focuses on per…

Last week I worked on the second last chapter of Betty Edwards' book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain".

This week I did a few exercises on perspective.

I did some exercises from the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards book around negative spaces.

For a non-native speaker, even the word "foreshortening" wasn't immediately intuitive, so I'm going to post its definition for posterity: foreshorten: to shorten by proportionately contracting in the direction of depth so that an illusion of projection or…

I've done another upside down drawing like here to focus on when "R-mode" activates.

In the "Crossing Over from Left to Right" chapter, the "Drawing from the Right Side of the Brain" book I'm following (see drawing) gives you an exercise: you have to draw "Portrait of Igor Stravinsky" by Pablo Picasso, upside down.

As mentioned in the previous post I've just started learning to draw with the "Drawing On The Right Side of the Brain" book by Betty Edwards (https://www.drawright.com/).

As mentioned in drawing I've decided to embark this journey of learning to draw, inspired by a random workshop I walked into accidentally at Lucca Comics, and seeing all the beauty of that world with fresh eyes (I went to the festival for the "Games" part,

I started a new hobby: learning to draw.

A friend showed me anyhow today for Rust.

I randomly ended up in a Masterclass by Tyler Jacobson today at Lucca Comics.

I'm (back) on BlueSky 🦋 at @alessandromarrella.com.

Tried to get Claude to play Neuralink's webgrid game using their demo container on computer use.

datamodel-code-generator is a really useful python library for generating python types out of a openapi/graphql schema

OpenAI's Realtime API + function calling will enable some really cool use cases like controlling UIs completely with our voice, or completely voice-first applications.

Internal tooling deserves a good UX too.

Just found out you can use emojis as favicons directly.

val.town is really cool.

These are some notes on the tradeoffs and best practices between On Demand pricing vs Editions pricing.