Hello! At last I can post some of the illustrations I was doing over the summer for Funny Peculiar, Will Young’s autobiography. He gave me the chapters as he wrote them and I went through thinking up ideas, 2 per chapter. It was so much fun; the book is v amusing (as you’d expect) but sad too in parts, which I tried to reflect. We were going for a whimsical, stripped back look, though I did sneak in a bit of cross-hatching here and there. Other excitements have been an extract (including pics) being featured in Attitude magazine, and, wait for it, Eamonn Holmes doing THIS:
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Anyway here are a couple of pictures….
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Will talks in one chapter about how even once he’d come out, he was still being offered ideas for videos where he’s walking down a beach with a woman, Backstreet Boys-style. Crazy.
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Smith, the champion belly-flopper of Will’s prep school, preparing for his high dive.
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Will talks about his depression in the book.. this picture is about the struggle to get up and meet the day.
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This silly bird is my favourite. It heads up the last chapter (involving the death of a pigeon) and it happens near me, so it’s a Hackney pigeon on a Hackney tree. Of course pigeons go to heaven too.
I think it’s brilliant, and speaks volumes, that Will wanted to do this instead of the usual photo insert. It was a fantastic project to work on and I’m so grateful to him for the opportunity.
At all good book stores now! (Waterstones/Amazon)