Rents Prep to Kick Heroin Illustration (Narrative Illustration)

This is a double page illustration concept for my narrative illustration unit on which I have chosen to do Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting.

This illustrates one of the first few chapters in the book in which 'Rentz' has decided to try to kick his heroin habit, he has a carefully put together plan listing all the things he will need to do so.
He mentions at one point after proudly ticking off the items in his list, that he will just need 'one more hit' to help him get over the first night... unfortunately for him this proves ridiculously troublesome and things take a humorous and disappointing twist.

So this illustration is basically showing 'Rentz' picturing himself carrying out his ideal plan with all of his drug kicking necessities .. I just felt that putting emphasis on his plan to get one last hit, would set up the reader for a bigger fall when he does not manage to get his last 'hit'.

At the moment I am still playing about with colours, hues, saturation etc until I am happy with the image, here are some that I have completed so far. ..

Nick Sheehy

OH YEAH

Found another great artist I like.
Nick Sheehy, he's an Australian Illustrator living in south east England.
His work is very interesting, he builds up texture and thin colour paying attention to detail to achieve his 'look'. I love how he enjoys drawing various weird things for himself, as this is something I do daily.
Ohhh, he has also worked with NoBrow!!

On his Flickr he has some brilliant macabre style skulls drawings and weird characters that I love and will take reference from during my Book of Drawings work.

http://www.showchicken.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/showchicken/

Marcos Chin

Marcos Chin was shown to me by Amy so I checked out his work.
His new work is really impressive and i really like his style!
I was interested in his line work and textures more than anything, they really made a difference to the basic flat stuff I was doing at the time.
I will take inspiration from him and try to use more texture and varied line work in my future pieces.

http://thewhitedeers.tumblr.com/


Fairly decent blog with some interesting animal illustrations :) Also check out Peony Yip's work, theres alot of you on the course that would love it.

http://www.juliapott.com/personal

Check this artist out :) I really like her personal work especially the animals. I love how her work is slightly abstract.
She uses basic colour tones and lines her work well, similar to me.. I will take inspiration from Julia Potts when working on my own animal pieces.

http://www.kentwilliams.com/wwwkentwilliamscom/drawings

This is Kent Williams, I think his work is great. I love his form, use of colour and composition. He uses a mixture of different media on most of his drawings, (which i think is cool) and I will try to take inspiration from his for my future work.