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 (15)
Jadelu
Very cool! Really nice postwork, it's a very convincing magazine illustration.
jharney
Super image
Tracesl Online Now!
Fantastic image!
chippwalters
Nice rendering. Don't those guys know smoking underwater is dangerous to their health?
duo
wonderful!
stboettcher
very good. would love to see a little more bubbles comin' up - especially from that "submarine", but I am no specialist in underwater affairs so maybe I am wrong...
AwarenessLogic
...like it's from the era of Thunderball!
SnowSultan
Very nice as usual! I like that "FROGMEN STORIES!" with the exclamation point, it's just the kind of ridiculous excitement those older stories always tried to convey. :)
MarkHirst
Reminds me of those missions against the Tirpitz in WWII. Gotta wonder about the patrols though, all those bubbles rising to the surface like that.
ragouc
Superb. Great work and post-work. Stunning
sim3344
Fantastic work!!!
wingnut55
really good.(MarkHirst has a point. i think i read somewhere that ww2 frogmen had a recycled air device that did not produce bubbles?)
Mikeall
Worried about the bubbles myself - too keen to provide the appropriate setting I think! The recycled air device sounds right and I am sure Anthony Appleyard can help clear that one up! One's accuracy is often only as good as one's 'swipe file' they say - but what I like (and miss) about the annuals and 'educational' children's magazines some of my posts try to emmulate is how often they (the writers and illustrators) got it wrong. I like to think that even if I had a real-world commision to complete there would still be a temptation to favour the fiction over the fact. Thanks everyone for the comments and observations.
chrispoole
Another fine example of a cover, bubbles aside! superb work.
Anthony Appleyard
The bubbles are wrong for a rebreather: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebreather . Bubbles would reveal the frogmen to surface patrols and guards. Splendid image. How do you get the comic-book printing effect?