These images are characters designed as part of the summer project, in which we were to design seven people in the style of seven artists. I only managed 5 designs & with my impeccable professionalism, didn't quite complete it over Xmas & the new year. The images are all on brown packing paper which was originally padding in mail order boxes, hence the many creases.
'Party-Goer' after Aubrey Beardsley
Pencil & black ink - Brian Reade describes Beardsley's method: "he never, so far as we know, made preliminary studies, or took tracings from sketches, for any of his compositions... His usual practice was to begin his drawing by scribbling with a pencil, making a host of flourishes & loops & scratchy lines. Over these somewhat vague schemata he drew with pen & brush, & with a firmness of hand that led without considerable erasion to the finished result." Hence I have not rubbed out any pencil marks but worked straight over them with pen/brush. I do not know what process was used to turn AB's drawings into the familiar bookplate prints. I experimented with Photoshop processes to get a purely black/white image but didn't find a satisfactory method that was not impracticably time-consuming.
'Göring Ramsay' after Sue Coe & John Heartfield
I was inspired by Sue Coe's I had decided long before that one character would be a chef, but concieved the idea of an overworked, rushing cook. Having seen a little of Coe's work, especially the pro-animal rights themes, I decided a villainous character & decided to use someone about as anti-vegan as it's possible to get - TV chef Gordon Ramsay. That led me to thinking of butchery, which in turn reminded me of John Heartfield's photomontage illustration of Hermann Göring, the Nazi Reichsmarschall [Link to image]. The meat cleaver was an obvious prop in place of the axe. I saw a photograph of Ramsay in a similar three-quarter view pose to the Göring image & caricatured the scale of the head to resemble the photomontage. The comical facial expression is influenced by Coe, particulalrly the use of teeth, which are often prominent in her images. The icon on the armband is a Michelin Star. Sod knows how many animals he's shot on telly.
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