Illustration Friday - Modify

I started with a portrait in sepia ink of the late Irish novelist, John McGahern, a current favourite of mine. I modified it by reworking it with black ink and then I subsequently used an old Microsoft Paint It program and made 2 other modified versions

Illustration Friday - Hollow

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us - if at all - not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

from the poem by T.S. Eliot

Illustration Friday - Shaky

Ch-ch-ch-ee-ee-ee-r-s. Cheers!

Illustration Friday - Worn

Worn out, this sketch is based on one of Duane Hanson's great sculptures, this one's called "The Executive". It reminds me of many nights on the commuter train back from work, I used to think of it as the Night of the Living Dead

Illustration Friday - Drifting

I really had a hard time coming up with something for this topic, this is a quick sketch of a boat in the Havana harbour

Illustration Friday - Unfold

"The universe is unfolding as it should." Many would argue whether Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the greatest Prime Minister Canada ever had, but most would agree that he was the most intelligent. He famously used this quote from Desiderata on a number of occasions

Illustration Friday - Craving

I gave up cigarettes a long time ago and I finally gave up cigars a few years ago but the craving is still not completely gone