I have always liked 'llIustration' and tend to produce it either as Cover Art or Sequential imagery. The former is probably the more challenging because of the balance that needs to be struck between form and content, decoration and narrative. Cover Art, like the short story, gets a limited shot at indicating what lies beneath the cover. My current preoccupation has been described, and I think aptly, as 'nostalgic sci fi and pulp'. And someone also suggested that it might be a little too late to revive the 'adventure genre'.
Stylistically, I'm keen on the commercial illustration of the mid 20th Century that was made to promote 'mass' publication (especially children's annuals, pulp magazines and comics). There is so much creativity and artistic competence to found on the covers and within the pages of even the most mundane examples.
It is over the last 7 years that I have started to use, and like, digital media. My working methods are still a little too intuitive and involve the usual squinting and standing back that one associates with traditional media, but I am enjoying making imagery more than ever and would now like to explore the possibilities of illustrating written stories (preferably by working with an author).
Interests: Commercial illustration and sequential imagery of the mid 20th Century that was made to promote 'mass' publications (especially children's annuals, pulp magazines and comics).
I am here for: Artistic interests. www.mikefyles.co.uk
Mike.
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Comments (16)
MarkHirst
Another excellent and 'authentic' addition to your gallery. There's something delightfully naive about the telescope and boxes, that it would not have occurred to 'visionaries' of the 50's that a telescope and storage crate for use in space would have to be quite different to their Earthly counterparts, both in terms of shape and materials.
theseus88bc
Holy Crud! That's fantastic!!
Khory_D
Really wonderful!
zboyi
Wonderful image, well done, like the use of 'Serpentine' font, works well!
Rorsdors
Absolutely brilliant, love it
3Dsmacker
That's a grand piece of work. Wonderfully nostralgic. +5
drace68
Nostalgia factor off the scale. Dick
chippwalters
Hmmm. I think I actually have that book...or at least have read it. Great stuff! Love it.
TheBear005
Well done!
Biffowitz
Fabulous cover, looks like something right out of the fifties!!
pakled
hey..I can see my house from here!...;) authentic stuff...
RBlue
Could be used as a George Pal movie poster as well.
duo
Cool vintage space image, Bonestell like! I love it!
deci6el
Nobody does it better - Carly Simon and you too. I can just see the full scale prop sitting in a boys room, just as he left it 50 YEARS AGO!!! (cue the organ music) It comes across very well. What could they be looking at? ; )
AdamWright
Fantastic work as always!
Anthony Appleyard
Where did the spacesuit model come from?