havockblog

“Pulling a Sickie” is the subject of the leading article of the most recent Living Ethics magazine, and this illustration accompanies it. Another opportunity to do some painting (though I have been getting more of that done recently as well, on canvas and all - watch this space), and to play with colour.
Incidentally, each illustration has a soundtrack as the songs I was listening to while making them get hard-wired to the illustration (in my head, at least). Can I note that for this one it’s the Afghan Whigs’ “Miles iz Dead” and their cover of “My World is Empty…“. I’m not sure whether it is worthwhile mentioning, but hey - it’s immortalised.

Another birthday card, another appearance for Gnook. This time he’s gathering dry wood in what seems a cold, windy and autumny forest. I am really enjoying this black and white line-and-raster feel, pitched as it feels between limitation (in being starkly black and white) and potential for atmosphere within those limits.
The title is a ‘cut-and-shut’ of the Dutch ’sprokkelhout’ (dry wood collected for making fires with) and ‘woud’ (which is Dutch for ‘wood’ or ‘forest’).
Anyway, another ‘happy birthday’.