…our most recent cover was quite the challenge for the illustrator Tim Enthoven. He spent 60 hours illustrating 1,028 people for our article on Gilad Shalit. By hand. Enthoven drew each original figure at about 0.8-by-0.2 inches with Pigma Micron fineliners. “The pain” was the hardest part of the assignment, he says…
i hadn’t seen this one before: a cover for the new york times magazine called the human swap by dutch illustrator ‘tim enthoven’ (via antoine achten)
a new name to me and some beautiful documentary work with a kind of ‘painterly quality’ to it from russian image maker sergey chilikov, he doesn’t have a website it appears but google the name and you should see plenty of his work
(many thanks to ‘dom’ in london for the tip)
when my friend martyn needed a model for an archetypal ‘advertising man’ for a full page illustration in todays edition of dutch national newspaper ‘de volkskrant’, guess who he chose; ha ha, hmm not sure if i should be flattered or insulted…
an art student from arnhem ‘matthieu pieters’ has been following me around for the past 24 hours, making pictures and taking notes of everything i do, say and consume… for a school project
he actually stayed at our house last night and the results will be a (potentially quite embarassing) summary of my life and bad habits in a 24 hour period, bundled in book form… looking forward to seeing the result matthieu!
here is the final poster i mentioned a few posts back for our new client ‘subtone’