serge gainsbourg pt.2

...and here's the design as it might look on an actual, honest-to-goodness packet of fags.

serge gainsbourg

Illustrator Jonathan Edwards has a new(ish) blog dedicated to Gitane-powered, wine-fuelled chanteur of chansons du sex*, Serge Gainsbourg which you can peruse at:

http://drawserge.blogspot.com/

He (Jonathan Edwards that is, NOT Serge Gainsbourg – he's been dead this past few years) recently posted my own contribution which can be seen above...

*GCSE French grade C. You never lose it, y'know.

the eyes have it

I've uploaded a couple of spreads from a personal project I've been working – a book about actors with distinctive eyes. Check out the pages at:

http://www.mchester.co.uk/html/pers_07.html

rock'n'roll portraits

...and here's the complete set. Overall, I'm fairly happy with the results, though I think one or two of the images need to be recoloured. The pastel shades I used in the background were slowly abandoned for more vivid colours and some of the early portraits I made don't look so good alongside the more recent drawings. I'm thinking about getting them printed up as larger individual prints or as a set of postcards, each with a short biography on the back. I've also made a series of full-figure drawings of some of the people depicted above but I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with them yet. It may be that these are formatted in a similar way to the soul stars I drew last year

http://www.mchester.co.uk/html/pers_01.html

but we'll see. Click on the image to get a better view. Any comments would be much appreciated. 

phil everly

don everly

elvis