Over the next few months I intend to show a few pieces of my older work to try and give you a better understanding of how I work.
Since spending a lot of time working on a Mac the way I produce a piece has changed. I have always been most comfortable mixing painting & drawing with collage and have tried to bring this into my digital illustration.
“Star Actor” was produced as part of a project to illustrate the day to day life of a local acting school.
This ‘1 hour piece’ started when I found a 1970’s American College Football photograph which contains some of the best Afros, Mullets and poses I have ever seen, I then just had to find a similar photograph of a proper British Football team from the same era, which is also loaded with Perms, Taches and shockingly tight shorts!
I can’t give much more of an explanation than that!
Free MP3 Download: Baseball Furies Chase – Barry De Vorzon (The Warriors)
Death’s-head Hawkmoth: Acherontia Lachesis.
Another 1 hour piece using symbolism, repeated patterns and symmetry.
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Here is another ‘1 hour piece’, as I say I intend to try and do a few of these a week and just see were ideas take me so you will see ideas emerge and progress.
At the moment I am using a lot of symbolism, repeated patterns and symmetry, all the elements of psychedelia which seems to be cropping up in everything from Illustration to Music which is never a bad thing.
Free MP3 Download: The Chemical Brothers – The Private Psychedelic Reel
I don’t think I need to say anything on this one, I will let the image do the talking!
The image is from a book called ‘The Soccer Tribe by Desmond Morris‘ published in 1981 it is packed full of amazing retro football photography and as you may already know by now I love football, football counter culture and footie fashion, with the 1970’s/80’s being the golden age of the beautiful game.
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