Monday, 30 April 2012

CWOTW Progress - the final stretch!

I really should update this when I actually do work & not put it off cos I can't think of words. There has been quite a lot of progress since my last blog update.

These first draft illustrations for 'Reclaiming the Streets' & 'The Red Weed'


These are the final illustrations at the Work-In-Progress stage, I've dropped the multi-coloured style of the first few drafts & gone for a more agit-prop-like 4 colour method, so I only use black, white & crimson with one other colour on each picture - in the case of Reclaiming the Streets, for example, it's bright yellow on the hi-vis jackets. They're all painted on corruguated cardboard (which is cheap & provides a neutral-coloured mid-tone base which gives automatic shading) at 1:1.5 scale, meaning they're 36 x 18 inches to be scaled down for the 12" album illustrations.

I still need to start on 'The Meat Wagon' (Thunder Child), 'Horsell Centre' (Horsell Common) & Brave New World so I'll be bloody busy all week again.


 Reclaiming the Streets WIP 1

WIP 2

The Red Weed WIP 1

Nathaniel Parson (the Traffic Warden) WIP 1

The Birds/Free London WIP 1