Carlotta Notaro is an Italian freelance illustrator and animator who combines analogue pencils with digital colours in Photoshop. She has worked on a lot of very different projects and with a mix of clients, such as the BBC, GIPHY, HP, Barilla, and many Italian publishers.
When she thinks back on her path, she tells me, "I've been drawing for as long as I can remember!" She recalls, "growing up, I started exploring different mediums – pencils, watercolours, acrylics. As a teen, I taught myself how to use Photoshop by mashing random buttons, and after high school, I finally enrolled in an Illustration & Animation course at IED. I had a lot of fun, because for the first time I was asked to draw stuff as homework," she adds.
