hype machine illustration – iron & wine
This week sees Hype Machine’s 2009 overview going online – focusing on 50 artists chosen by users of the site. This year, they decided to have each artist/band accompanied by an illustration. They got in touch with me and asked if I’d like to provide an illustration for one of the artists and I chose – from the ten or so remaining – to go for Iron & Wine.
As Sheret commented to me once – Iron & Wine is the musical choice for men who want to cry late at night.
Here’s the illustration I provided:
I drew it fairly quickly during the festive period and only looked at it again today when it went online. Obviously, now all I see are the things I should have done differently. The background being the main issue for me I think. But you live and learn.
Thanks to Jamie McKelvie and Julia Scheele for suggesting me for the gig.
I think the background works in this man. The whole things comes off as a woodcut, a textured slab cut from a tree.
(And, yes, you could have spent more time on it, but everyone could always spend more time on everything. I could have spend more time cleaning my teeth this morning, I didn’t… wait… this isn’t a public comment, right? Oh god…)
Nice! I like it a lot. He looks very sad for a man in the festive period