Nature

NATURE

I've had an interesting few weeks illustrating a series of nine essays on scientific aspects of music. Not only because the articles themselves were enlightening, which they were, but because I had a very challenging tightrope of illustrative style to walk. The editor, with whom I was mostly dealing, likes the lines in my roughs. Lots of energy, lots of scribbly lines, that's the ticket. Unfortunately, the chief designer isn't so hot on the lines; she likes more 'washy' areas of painting. There is a circle there to square. All this on top of the problem of trying to find visual metaphor for an entirely non-visual subject and, you can imagine, it has not been without its problematic moments. Still, it's been interesting - and some of them I was reasonably pleased with. Here are a few:

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