Friday, 20 February 2009

3 more illustration projects:

A poster for the Royal Cornwall Museum - the tagline was "Amazing objects, amazing stories." I tried to communicate the idea of a story taking place without explicitly outlining a specific story from an item in the museum's collection.


Another poster, this one for a theatre production of Macbeth. I was practicing character interaction as most of my paintings tend to have people isolated, but to be honest I prefer my paintings to talk to the audience rather than to themselves.


Something a bit different, a portrait of Tom Petty for a magazine article. I was going for a warm Californian feel but it ended up pretty cold - that's the cold English weather creeping in probably.



Thursday, 5 February 2009

Two recent illustration projects - a portrait of Nick Cave,

...and a book cover for Crime and Punishment



I'm finding that lately I'm suited to a simpler way of working, concentrating on composition and design as opposed to a high quality finish. It's a struggle, I have to agree with Craig Mullins that some people are blessed with an innate talent for composition, but like everything else it's a learnable skill, so I need to get back to studies.