Johnny Broadley’s old fashioned illustrations depict pies, factories, ale, top hats and football matches, all from an era in Great Britain full of strange twists and turns. His funny-looking characters that range from Dickensian men to Bash Street Kids go about their daily business in reams of pretty hilarious comic strips.
His limited colour palette, quirky characters, way of incooperating text within illustrations and use of pattern is all of major interest to me for my project. So far on my project I have been trying to create a visual style and focusing on Little Red’s illustrations mainly with the idea that once I am happy with which style and medium I am going to do then I will move onto the other stories. However, I am worried there isn’t much time within this project at all so I need to hurry my work along and move onto the next fairytale if I’m going to succeed in doing six fairytales. I’ll start onto another fairytale today whilst experimenting with the style for Little Red as well.
So far I have painted all the elements I wanted to use in her story in inks and also done then in fine liners, I want to take all these elements into Photoshop and play around with colour and composition. However, now I’m thinking maybe the best way to pull these illustrations off is to create them all by hand and play with collage and different mediums more physically.
