Style chameleon
For the third time in a few months, I’m drawing in someone else’s style. Even though I don’t have a definitive drawing style, it can be useful to be a great counterfeiter. Part of the ‘21 styles‘ territory. Robert Hichens’ style A few months ago, the much-loved illustrator South African Robert Hichens passed away. So our mutual client asked me to carry on with the job he’d been busy with, for schoolbooks in Namibia. A very poignant job. Some of the roughs were already done, and I had to bring them to the final stage. I studied his Facebook page to get a deeper understanding of how he drew and what was typical of his style. I guess we all have definitive characteristics of our style which even in my case goes across all the styles I use. In Robert’s case, he would sometimes airbrush shaved heads with a tint of black, so there was a suggestion of hair. And […]