A short while ago I uploaded a video showing how I work in Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter to draw and colorize my cartoons and illustrations.
Here is the finished drawing from that specific video. I quite like the mood I achieved with the painterly way of colorizing it.
Caricature cartoon Portrait from Photograph by Ian Marsden.
Caricature portraits can be custom created from photographs.
Please contact Ian Marsden to find out more. info@marsdencartoons.com
Karikatur ab Foto – gezeichnet von Ian Marsden. Karikaturen von ihren Freunden, Bekannten, Familie, Arbeitskollegen etc. ab Foto.
Als digitale Datei geliefert die Sie ausdrucken können oder als Original-Zeichnung in Tusche s/w oder Aquarell koloriert.
Cartoon of Pirates walking the plank © 1997 by Ian D. Marsden
This is one of several Playboy-style cartoons I submitted to Michelle Urry at Playboy Magazine which led her to think that my drawing style might be a match for Playboy. Unfortunately Hugh Hefner himself disagreed with Mrs. Urry and even though I got this close – I missed it by ‘that much’ as Maxwell Smart might say.
This was created using pen and ink, colored pencil and watercolor, gouache on Bristol Board.
Pirates plank walking cartoon (Playboy) by Ian MarsdenFrom the Marsden Archive:
‘Solidarité de Poisson’
Exhibited at the Cartoon Biennale Davos 1993
Published in Nebelspalter Nr. 2/ 1993
Ausgestellt an der Cartoon Biennale Davos 1993
Erschienen in Nebelspalter Nr. 2 / 1993
From the Marsden Archive:
Poster for the first International Rheinfelder Cartoon Exhibition in Rheinfelden, Switzerland 1990
The event featured cartoonists from various countries and was a big success. It was co-sponsored by Paul Schärer (Kulturförderung Paul Schärer), Aargau
1. Internationale Rheinfelder Cartoon Ausstellung poster by Ian MarsdenFrom the Marsden Archive :
Christoph Blocher Pen and ink and watercolor cartoon for Nebelspalter Magazine, 1993 by Ian Marsden.
Christoph Blocher is a highly divisive Swiss political figure. He has frequently been compared by the media and his political opponents to figures such as Jean-Marie Le Pen and Jörg Haider. Blocher is the leader of the SVP/UDC party’s nationalist wing, which dominates the party’s delegation to the National Council.
Christoph Blocher (SVP/UDC) Nebelspalter Cartoon from 1993 – by Ian MarsdenMenu card for the three different sumptuous buffets being offered at the Sandy Lane Luxury Golf and Spa Resort at St James in Barbados, West Indies with 3 original watercolor illustrations by Ian Marsden.
I was in Barbados at the time and enjoyed being commissioned to create this artwork very much.
Of course I had to try the buffet selections on several occasions to make certain I got just the right feel of the ambience.
From the Marsden Archive:
This golf cartoon was originally in color, this is the only reproduction I still have.
It was created using a pen and ink and gouache on D’Arches watercolor paper.
It depicts a bunch of highly distrustful birds who have ganged up on a poor golfer somewhere in Scotland. Their suspicion seems to be that it is not a golf ball at all but rather an egg he might be playing with.
It was published in the Swiss Nebelspalter magazine in 1991 and was exhibited at the
4th International Cartoon Biennale in Davos, Switzerland
(22. July – 22. August 1992 Kongresszentrum Davos)
The original was purchased at the Cartoon Biennale Davos by well-known Swiss media personality, actor, comedian, writer, producer Hansjörg Bahl and is in his personal collection.
Golf Cartoon by Ian Marsden – International Cartoon Biennale Davos 1992From the Marsden Archives:
This is a cartoon commissioned by Urs Kneubühl for Mövenpickles Magazine, the internal publication for the Mövenpick corporation.
Urs Kneubühl was a wonderful person to work for and I would like to count him to my personal friends.
The concept was to have a party with 50 scoops of the fantastic Mövenpick ice-cream flavors. The seagull on top of the mound if ice-cream stems from the fact that ‘Möve’ means seagull in German.
I used a sketch of my own daughter Joanna for the little baby – she was 1 year old right around the time I drew this cartoon.
Pen and Ink on Paper – colored with aquarell watercolors and colored pencils.
Cartoon from 1998 – 50 Years Mövenpick by Ian MarsdenThis is an ‘old’ cartoon (from around 1991 or so I would guess), when I had definitely not quite found my own style yet.
This was intended for Playboy Magazine, and as one can see in this example, I was trying way too hard to make it look like the already existing cartoon art in the magazine, and failing in my opinion.
(The original artwork for this, is in the collection of the Karikatur & Cartoon Museum Basel, Switzerland)
The back story: I am a huge fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories and have been since early adolescence.
In the early nineties my girlfriend at the time always suggested that the two bachelors living together at 221 B Baker street were obviously a gay couple. I strongly disagreed (Not that there’s anything wrong with that) – and hence this is my rebuttal I came up with. It never got selected nor published (and I am quite happy about this actually, looking at it now).
A back story regarding Playboy cartoons: Many years later, as my work started to show a more identifyable style I started submitting cartoons to Playboy again. This time I received a very positive reaction from Michelle Urry, the cartoon editor at Playboy, who is a marvellous, classy lady who I am very honored to have met. (I read with sadness in 2006 that she had unfortunately passed away)
We corresponded for quite a while and I even had a meeting with Mrs. Urry at the Playboy HQ in New York, which struck me as a very ‘Austin Powers’ kind of place – just as I had hoped and imagined. In the end Mr. Hefner himself gave the thumbs down on my cartoons being published in the magazine. I was somewhat upset certainly, especially because Mrs. Urry was endorsing my addition to the list of Playboy cartoonists, but such is life.
Among Mad Magazine and the New Yorker, Playboy was definitely on my top 3 list of places where I always dreamed of publishing my drawings. Since the last negative reply seemed somewhat final, I haven’t submitted anything anymore since then.
(Cartoon von Ian D. Marsden: Das Original ist im Besitz des Karikaturen & Cartoon Museum Basel, Schweiz)
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were not gay after all….(Karikatur & Cartoon Museum Basel)
