This week’s Economist cartoon was a fun one. The 3 characters involved are quite different personalities and I endeavoured to capture their diverse spirits in each caricature.  There were many phases of development that you can see in roughs below.

 

I drew the cover for The Economist this week on the threat of inflation arising from emerging markets (tough one to illustrate, right?!). I worked closely with the cover designer in London and we came up with this solution. I played around with a variety of monsters under the staircase as you can see below. I finished the art using gouache and india ink. I’m looking forward to seeing it in print!

I had a second idea of having the creature hidden in a different way which you can see below. Maybe we’ll use it another time!

  This is the first post of my new sketchblog. I will endeavor to regularly post examples of my cartoon sketches and finished artwork with comments here.     This a cartoon I drew for The Economist back in March with its preliminary sketch. I’ll try to get some more up to date art up here soon.