A cover for U-Comix magazine, I am guessing from around 1985.
This is one of my very early published pieces and one of my first covers.
I still remember to this day: it was a fantastic feeling to see my artwork at every newsstand…
(even though the printers took my signature off.)
Titelblatt U-Comix ca. 1985 von Ian Marsden
Here is a short YouTube video in which I very briefly show how I created the Irish Players for the new ‘Footballheroes See Red’ book using my drawing of Paul Mc Shane as an example.
I click through some of the layers and talk very briefly about some of the software used.
In the case of the Republic of Ireland team, I started with rough pencil sketches which I then scanned and imported into Adobe Illustrator CS3.
I created all my black line work in Illustrator using the pressure sensitivity from the Wacom tablet to give me the stroke widths and the right look and feel for my lines.
The Footballheroes books are printed in such high quality and on such top-notch paper that I wanted everything to look as sharp as possible.
Finally I imported the lines into Corel Painter IX.5 and colored the players using digital watercolor.
Final artwork was delivered as 300 ppi TIFF files.
The reason Paul Mc Shane is wearing a suit and a band-aid is because I wanted all of the team members to look like characters from a classic gangster movie. Why? I don’t know.
It’s been a while since I posted some scans from one of my lovely Moleskine sketchbooks.
Here is a recent double-page with completely pointless and absolutely not topic-related cartoons and doodles.
‘Painting Machine’
One of many covers I illustrated for the satirical Nebelspalter Magazine over the years.
Issue 11, March 9th 1992
Nebelspalter Titelblatt Nr.11 vom 9 März 1992 von Ian D. Marsden
