How did Ianardo get started in art, and in particular, portraits of BBWs?
My interest in art was inherited from my Mum. I started drawing as soon as I was old enough to hold a wax-crayon, drawing some of the usual things such as people, houses, cars, etc. I developed some unusual specialities in early school years. For example drawing human skeletons (!) and maps of the world in great detail. In later school years, I did have some art lessons, but never intended to take it up as a career. I never took a liking to painting and stayed firmly with pencil drawings mostly in black and white. When finding myself out of work a few years later, I happened to have been doing a series of drawings of classic cars. The boom in the classic car market was gathering pace, so I cashed in on this by becoming a freelance artist specialising in doing portraits and limited edition prints of old cars. I decided to switch to working in coloured pencils giving the drawings a greater appeal to my potential customers. After the classic car market crashed in 1990, I tried doing portr
