Earlier this month my work was shown along side several other artists in a sort of tribute exhibition hosted in NORTHBAR for Tony Tomlin. Tony Tomlin himself is a commonly known face within the Bar, as well as Leeds DIY art scene. For this Exhibition I was approached by another illustrator, about taking part in the exhibition. I was given an original Tony artwork to recreate in my own image, I choice this one (shown below):
I began by doodling in my sketchbook a basic idea, trying to take influence from the phrasing within Tonys original cartoon visually in my own. My process of creating this piece began with me wanting to use and develop my skills using Copic marker pens, I was also inspired by Rene Gruau illustrations. Although the work of Rene Gruau that I found inspired this illustration weren't produced within the 70's I personally found the style and fashion within those illustrations, quite relevant to 70's women. Wanting to produce lineart as bold and clean as possible, I sketched out a very rough sketch on layout paper and using the LightBox (That I had made in first year) I then traced the sketch onto marker-paper with Ink.
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| First concept - Final Illustration (3rd attempt) |
It took me a few attempts (three) to produce an illustration I was happy submitting to the exhibition. I choice the final illustration over the first because of the clear motion and movement of the character depicted in the illustration. I also thought adding cartoon-like speech bubbles, including the text from Tonys original piece, would improve the over all piece.
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| Work Shown on Social Media |
The NorthBAR twitter tweeted a sneak peek of the exhibition featuring my illustration, although my twitter wasn't linked it was nice seeing my work within a businesses social media post!
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