Award winning satirical cartoonist Ronal Searle CBE is one of my biggest inspirations. I read some of the books from the "St. Trinians" series as a youngster and was always (like with many other books) more interested in the illustrations than the actual story.
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Cover of "The Terror of St Trinian's and Other Drawings" - a
publication featuring a host of Searle's illustrations. |
A diverse designer content-wise, Searle's other work includes his documentation of his years spent as a prisoner of war, with graphic representations of the conditions which he encountered (i.e. fellow soldiers dying from diseases like cholera etc)
Searle's confident, quick and loose style of drawing really opened up my eyes to the fact that illustration was not all about drawing something that looks "exactly" the way it would in reality and that it's okay to push the envelope.
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