Last week I was drawing portraits as Cadbury Dairy Milk’s artist in residence. I took the opportunity to see what some of their facebook fans would look like as animals. The trickiest was my attempt to draw a cat version of Atlas (Catlas?) holding a gigantic ball of wool instead of the globe.
While we were coming up with artwork for Death and Other Unnatural Phenomena Giggle Party ran a competition where they promised that the winners would be immortalised in the album artwork. Being ‘a party album about death’ the winner’s portraits were always going to have at least a slight whiff of rotting corpse about them. Check out the full artwork here and close-ups of the portraits below…
I have lots of exciting new projects that I’m waiting to be able to post here but first I have to spend some time in a field. Roll on Glastonbury. I can’t claim the idea is mine but I made this flag under instructions from a very good friend. Say hello to Eavis Presley.
Portrait No.522. See more here – www.yourfaceblog.blogspot.com
New shirt for Super Superficial.
I finally passed by the milestone of five hundred innacurate and possibly offensive portraits of humble blog visiting folk. I’m pretty sure I didn’t see myself still drawing these things for so long when I started the blog back in 2007, but it’s certainly been a whole lot of fun. Your Face blog to see more.
A copy of the YCN Annual battled its way through the Christmas post and made it to my door this week. A few illustrators were asked to contribute a portrait of their Person of the Year. Mine pretty much is the person of any year, not just 2009. Of course, I chose Sir David Attenborough and drew him in a typical pose with a panda in a headlock.
I’m not totally sure where my obsession with facial hair developed from. Probably best not to fight it.
I’ve been drawing portraits for strangers over at Your Face for a good while now. I uploaded Portrait No. 362 earlier today and as the sun has momentarily appeared again and itunes just opted to serenade me with The Clash, what better time to celebrate with a little competition.
This is your chance to skip the queue and get your portrait drawn next. I’ve also got a few things hanging around that might make a worthwhile prize so here’s the deal…
What you have to do:
Leave a comment on this post with an idea of how I should draw your portrait – See Your Face for ideas of the type of things we’re talking about. Basically the weirdest or funniest idea for how I can deface your portrait wins. If you’ve always wanted to know what you would look like riding side saddle on the back of Margaret Thatcher or how you would look if you were born with knives and forks instead of teeth this could your best chance.
What you get:
Yours will be the next face I draw
A print of your portrait
Live Fast Dye Young or Jesus – Hide & Seek Champion Screenprint
Your Face Tea Towel
Your Face Zine No.2
A random selection of pin badges.
I’ll pick some runners up that will get their portraits drawn and a tea towel for their trouble.
