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Sketch from about a year ago (making it January 2019).

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Thought I’d have a go at depicting various dramatic incidents from my case study as film posters. This one was meant to look like a 1980s action film, but I got a bit carried away with the gradients and it ended up having a very early-21st-century-version-of-the-1980s vibe.

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November 2019. Clowns from various early 19th century sources on the V&A’s website, mostly referencing depictions of Joseph Grimaldi.

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June 2018.

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Doing new drawings to stick in a presentation for a seminar I’m giving at university in a few days.

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Finished this sketchbook the other day. Here’s some of the best bits!

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The big fight in chapter 13 of Nicholas Nickleby. Click to enlarge if you want to read it!

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A few drawings of Kongsa from Sketchbook 21 (28 February 2017 - 26 March 2017).

This is Makh! He is a half-human-half-crocodile chap who turns up in the river near Mungkhon's village, so Mungkhon (the fellow in the boat) tries to help him find his family.

Some rough sketches of Kongsa and Eolan from the other day.

I made a thing! It's a copper trophy pendant worn by planthunters who have taken a plant from an enemy's garden. The more pendants you have, the more plants you've taken. Also showing a younger Eolan, drawn a while ago.

Kongsa and Eolan have acquired a vehicle - and a friend.

Eolan - the grumpy chap in the massive boots - works as an interpreter on behalf of the Empire, and he meets Kongsa when he is travelling with an anthropologist, and, in the current parlance, one thing leads to another. Kongsa has a basket of feathers and passionfruit and other nice things for their anniversary.

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Here's what those buildings were for - some sort of imperial city built in the middle of territory belonging to the planthunter tribes.

Ink! Ink! Ink! Obey the ink building!

Dodgy buildings, inhabited and used by dodgy people for dodgy purposes.

This is Mungkhon, and he is normally quite cheerful, but here he is not because his magic axe has been stolen.

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