The idea of making 33 illustrations from Dante’s Inferno was born to give my passion for drawing linearity, diligence and continuity: I did not want to waste my precious retirement time.    But drawing is still an amusement!  I will draw a “fantastic version” of Dante’s Inferno, even if I do not hide the ambition to render Dante’s experience, through the “inferno”, in a key as “human” as possible.   I will follow the letter of the text when “unavoidable”; other times I will deviate from it without problems:  I already know that my “damned souls” will be anything but incorporeal.     In the first illustration above, for example, I strictly respected the words of the incipit of Canto , but minding the figure of Dante very little:  in fact I would redesign that in the future. The technique is very basic.  Very detailed pencil,  ink (nib or fineliner) for the outlines and hatching, watercolor.