THE MAIL ON SUNDAY newspaper commissioned me to illustrate an article about a war of words between the top two airline industry bosses, Willie Walsh and Sir Nigel Rudd. The original illustration, below, was edited to fit the print page but appears in its entirety in the online edition ( a link will be inserted …
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PHILOSOPHY NOW magazine sent me this article by Raymond Tallis to illustrate. I had to extract some sort of informational image from the text which was loosely based on a theory that a man’s personality could be separated up into Thing, the Beast and the Bloke. As an illustrator it is up to me to …
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AS A CARTOONIST in London I have drawn illustrations from a wide range of publications and companies with head offices in the capital. It was very easy, back in the Eighties and Nineties, to visit offices armed with a portfolio and emerge with commissions for cartoons and caricatures. Nowadays, it is possible to show your …
PHILOSOPHY NOW Magazine commissioned an illustration of novelist/philosopher Iris Murdoch for their Feb/March Valentine’s Day issue as the theme of the whole issue was ‘Love’. Using black ink an pens, I was pleased to deal with her slightly bedraggled features and made a feature out of one of her quotes in the cigarette smoke. Not …
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AS A CARICATURIST and movie fan, it seems perfectly natural to try to encapsulate the likenesses of the famous in caricatures of actors. There are a lot of interesting faces in the acting profession. from Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock in Star Trek (left) to Miriam Margolyes of the TV series The Real Marigold Hotel. …
PENCIL SKETCH CARICATURES are always a stage in the production of a finished caricature illustration. Often they are simply loose line references for the final ink application but often they become the finished artwork themselves. Pencil sketch art has a long history with well-known proponents including Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso. As a relatively …
WHY NOT USE cartoons to illustrate books? Fortunately a lot of people publishing their own books think this is a great idea. I have illustrated a lot of books over the years. The Book of Football Quotations published by Hutchinson, the first publisher of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‘s works, was one of the first covers …
CARICATURES FROM PHOTOS make great gifts! If you’re looking for a unique present for a special friend or colleague, there is no better memento of your friendship than a custom-created caricature portrait drawn from the photos you supply. It will be kept, framed and become a much-valued family heirloom for ever afterwards. Great for birthdays, …
Cartoons for Magazines IT MIGHT SEEM a bit odd to be talking of supplying cartoons for magazines in this digital day and age, but for ‘magazines’ you can substitute ‘text’. Anywhere where there is a lot of text and where a stock photo simply won’t do, a cartoon illustration, professionally drawn, will always ‘draw’ (excuse …
