desolation row sketches

Sketches for Einstein (dressed as Robin Hood), and Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot (fighting in the captain's tower).

TWSBI Diamond 580 with Platinum Carbon ink in A4 Stillman and Birn Alpha Series sketchbook.

desolation row

I haven't posted anything for a while. I took a couple of weeks off work at Easter and therefore didn't have access to the A3 scanners which I use to scan double spreads from my sketchbook. I've been busy drawing though and have embarked on a rather ambitious project – an illustrated version of Bob Dylan's Desolation Row. My plan is to draw all the different characters mentioned in the song – about thirty in all. The final image will be one long horizontal piece which I might turn into a concertina book or one of those boxes with a window and handles which you can turn to scroll through the image. The quick sketch I've posted here is a rough guide to remind me what each of the characters is doing and I'm also using this as a checklist as I work my way through the illustration. More soon...

TWSBI Diamond 580 on photocopier paper.

bucket head face

Bucket top that looks like a face and the Junior Marvel's drawing of this (I digitised and coloured it).

Biro on photocopier paper, digital colour. 

intimations of unbelievable horror

TWSBI Diamond 580 with Platinum Carbon ink in A4 Stillman and Birn Alpha Series sketchbook.

fringe sketches (leslie crowther)

TWSBI Diamond 580 with Platinum Carbon ink in A4 Stillman and Birn Alpha Series sketchbook.

have you read neville shute?

TWSBI Diamond 580 with Platinum Carbon ink in A4 Stillman and Birn Alpha Series sketchbook.

draw your way out of the slump

TWSBI Diamond 580 with Platinum Carbon ink and watercolours in A4 Stillman and Birn Alpha Series sketchbook.