In September 2017 I started to draw a series of comic strips about the Italians living in the UK.
I showed my very first comic strip to a couple of friends who told me I should have shared it on social media.
I hadn’t thought to launch a Facebook page at the time. I was drawing to test a few graphics apps on my Surface Pro and I quite liked the result.
I hadn’t drawn in months and never got into digital illustration.
So I went “why not?”. Why not to keep drawing a few more comic strips?
After a while I got a full series of strips done. It was a special time of my life when memories from my past in the UK were coming out like a waterfall and I just wanted to put them down with fun.
On 21 October 2017 I launched Fralus Facebook Page.
Humour helped me out. It smoothed the nostalgia about those places and people I were with before relocating to Italy.
From September to December 2017 I’ve drawn more than 50 comic strips featuring Italians in the UK.
Most of them involve culture shocks about food, weather, clothing, habits. Some are about the Brexit.
What encouraged me most was the bunch of messages from the Italians living in the UK who thanked me for spreading humour and laughs through my sketches.
In November 2017 I launched also my Instagram page and started to expand my portfolio to further illustration themes like British pop-rock bands, love etc.
On 18th February 2018 fralus.com came to life!
MY LOGO
I came up with some ideas for my own logo when I started to build my website. I wanted it to be clean, simple and playful, just like my comic strips style. The idea of a “strawberry” comes from the very first 3 letters of my nick name (and real name) “FRA” so I put down some drafts of logos featuring a “fragola” (“strawberry” in Italian).
It took several drafts to reach my favourite logo, but that was worth!
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