Posts tagged “illustration”
Dissecting the intricacies of slapstick, from today’s Globe. (Taken with instagram)
A larger, clearer version of the illustration I did for the Globe & Mail on the occasion of Steve Jobs’s resignation from Apple. Click through for the bigger image on Flickr.
A recent magazine illustration about expanding the scope of research in the pharmaceutical world.
The Work/Life 2 directory of illustration is out from Uppercase, and it’s a beautiful little book packed with profiles of great illustrators, their workspaces, sketchbooks, and illustrations.
This is the piece I created for the book.
Cross-posted from Picture Book Report.
This was to be the illustration that finally introduced Mr. Willy Wonka. But a few hours at the drawing table left me unhappy with every likeness I came up with. It has proven to be a difficult task to stay true to the text, and create something original, without also being influenced by Quentin Blake’s illustrations and both Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp. So instead, I decided to draw all the kids again as a warm-up exercise. It’s a bit of a departure, stylistically, from the existing entries. Consider it an appetizer for the next illustration which will indeed introduce Willy Wonka, and perhaps several of his tiny Oompa Loompas.
An illustration for a kids magazine story about strange Canadian inventions. It was a series of illustrations, but this was my favourite — a spinning device for the dinner table that would keep flies away.
Cross-posted from Picture Book Report
I, Willy Wonka, have decided to allow five children — just five, mind you, and no more — to visit my factory this year. These lucky five will be shown around personally by me, and they will be allowed to see all the secrets and the magic of my factory. Then, at the the end of the tour, as a special present, all of them will be given enough chocolates and candies to last them for the rest of their lives!
After missing last month, I’m back with another Charlie illustration. Here we meet the first four finders of Wonka’s Golden Tickets. I borrowed one detail from Tim Burton’s adaptation, and that was to turn Mike Teavee, the toy-gun-toting couch potato, into a gamer. I think it’s fair to say that if the story were written today, this violence-loving-brat would be addicted to shoot-em-up video games instead of gangster movies.
I also borrowed a visual gag from Gene Wilder’s Wonka — the type that gradually diminishes in size to the point of illegibility.
I won’t replicate the descriptions of every child, but oh the picture Roald Dahl paints of poor Augustus Gloop:
The picture showed a nine-year-old boy who was so enormously fat he looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump. Great flabby folds of fat bulged out from every part of his body, and his face was like a monstrous ball of dough with two small greedy curranty eyes peering out upon the world.
Next month we will finally meet Mr. Wonka himself.
Here’s another puzzle page for chickaDEE Magazine. Again, this is obviously presented here without the text, but you should be able to figure this one out, kids. Which machine made which wacky foodstuff? Bonus points for finding the hidden cat, computer mouse, calculator, rocket ship, and star.
A recent illustration to decorate the website belonging to the fine folks at Subvert Marketing.
This was a fun project, and I’ll share some of the rejected roughs and process soon.
Here’s a little illustration I did for Uppercase Magazine. It accompanied an article about scotch, suspenders, and smoking pipes.
The article references Mr. Potato Head as once having a pipe as a standard accessory, and once I read that, the drawing basically created itself.
