He started to perfect drawing the human form. He studied with el Mono Cantilo and Alejandro Puente; at the same time he attended the Escuela Panamericana de Arte (Pan American School of Art) and the Instituto de Bellas Artes (Institute of Fine Arts) to work on live models, until he met Roque Pronestti.

During 1981 he presented himself in the studio of Roque Pronestti who was a draughtsman, painter and did publicity illustratotions. “I asked him to look at my drawings and to teach me what he knew”. There were few draughtsmen who could equal Pronestti. For years I worked with him as an apprentice. I watched him work, I copied his drawings and prepared his materials.

In those days he exhibited his drawings in all the places he was able to: the School of Agronomy, the Rural and the Trapalandra Group.

“Trapalandra is the name given to the sky of fine horses”. “Those were the years of drawing horses, gauchos and country scenes while my passion for football continued in my notepads’ yellowing pages”.

Finally the great opportunity came for Ricardo. Through Pronestti, he started working in the Gowland Publicity Agency where he continued until 1989. “One day, a company producing an important make requested a painting to serve as a company gift and Pronestti told me to go and show them a painting of hoses I had done. I sold it at an incredible price.”

“Those years I worked with Roque Pronsestti marked and important jump ahead in my drawing which I don’t think I could have made without him.”