Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
I was recently asked to create some illustrations for a new
Pamol campaign. Grassroots Design asked me to create a
selection of 'before and after' baby characters to be accompanied
by their stressed-out parents.
selection of 'before and after' baby characters to be accompanied
by their stressed-out parents.
I love drawing kids, but found drawing the parents especially
straightforward - I've been that stressed out parent myself so know
instinctively what it feels like to have a teething child or one with
a skyrocketing temperature!
straightforward - I've been that stressed out parent myself so know
instinctively what it feels like to have a teething child or one with
a skyrocketing temperature!
Each character has a latin-esque name, along the lines of
Mummimus Stressimax, Parentae Pannicus, Ouchius Alloverus,
Tootahcus Grizzlius, and Cutimus Feveris to add a bit of humor.
See if you can put a name to a face...
Mummimus Stressimax, Parentae Pannicus, Ouchius Alloverus,
Tootahcus Grizzlius, and Cutimus Feveris to add a bit of humor.
See if you can put a name to a face...
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