A picture of the flamboyant National Gallery curator Alan Jarvis who was instrumental in dragging Canada out of the past with bold aquisitions of contemporary art in the 50's.
This is a piece for the Literary Review about the chap Lu Decheng, who defaced Mao's portrait in Tiananmen Square and then got tossed into the nightmare Gulag for years. It seems everyone uses the standard Mao portrait to riff on and I wanted a different pose so I chose one of his smoking moments and gussied it up a bit.
I had to make an emergency retirement gift tonight for the Dean of Lincoln University in the UK. They are rather fond of their great local saint Hugh thus the mash up.
Here are a pair of rough pencils of Conrad Black and Evil Uncle Joe. I'll post the illos when they get painted for comparison. Need to get the likeness' more on the money.
Hello friends and welcome to the Wes Tyrell sketchbook, the ongoing way to share my latest artwork and foolishness with you. I work for magazines with a few different techniques specializing in my own brand of caricatures, political cartoons and simple line cartoons.
I'll be adding updates of my sketches and published pieces to work in tandem with my website. I hope there is something here to tickle your fancy.
Hoping to always get better, your comments are welcome.
I am a Toronto illustrator /cartoonist. This is my first graphic novel and I hope it will entertain and enlighten those who are interested in the fascinating country of Cuba.