Lost for Words

One of my recently completed illustrations for an editorial commission to accompany an article about being prepared for a meeting.  

I played a little with the perspective of this image to give it a quirkier look and feel, distorting it to exaggerate to close up and faces of the two characters each side of frame.  The idea was to make the viewer or reader of the article feel they were the ones being eye balled as the people in the illustration are all paused waiting for the presentation or witty remark to be said.

Sure most have us have all been there at a meeting, pub or at home struggling for something to say.  We all hope when it comes to our retort or just plain answer to something it's relevant or witty, usually what we want to say comes latter sometimes much later.   Maybe when we're driving home it strikes or when we are talking about it later with a significant other or friend the once missing words flash into sight.

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Tally Ho!

This is a recently finished illustration and will soon be posted on my website folio pages.  Adding new images and keeping the content of my site fresh and up to date is important to keep people coming back while also broadening the subject matter on display.  It can take time to come up with something new if I’m lucky I can maybe add two illustrations a week.  Sometimes these are paid commissions others are selected from self-initiated work. 

My sketch in pencil roughly works out the perspective and dive angle I want to show .

The Spitfire artwork is something I wanted to add to my folder, it’s the sort of thing I hope appeals to potential clients that are in children’s publishing in the UK, the type of illustration they might use for a reference book or children’s encyclopedia if my style is appropriate for the project.   The image itself was sketched out first in pencil then refined and finished off as a pen and ink illustration.  The colour was added after it was scanned on the computer with Photoshop.

Also personally the Spitfire is a very impressive plane, I was lucky enough as a child to get inside the cockpit of one on display and I had a little airfix model I built too.  So it was very nice to revisit those memories and have fun drawing it.

Finished image in pen and ink coloured on Photoshop.  Note the angle of the plane in relation to the horizontal line shown by the White Cliffs of Dover in the background.

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