Showing posts with label Enys Family Archive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Enys Family Archive. Show all posts

Saturday, 15 October 2011

It's just not cricket

Below are a selection of commissioned illustrations I did for a Cornish family archive.

One of the family ancestors played cricket for England in the mid 1800s. The outfits may look a bit like something from A Clockwork Orange, but cricket players once dressed like this:



Another family ancestor was taken to court by her own son in the late 1700s -

...and another was a successful businessman and merchant in the 1600s. This character has been the most challenging and awkward of all of them to draw.


Tuesday, 31 May 2011

New project

Some new images for a commissioned project, which involves doing illustrations for a Cornish family archive.