Things I Love 001 - Jim Fitzpatrick - Thin Lizzy artwork

I've really got into the music of Thin Lizzy over the last few years, especially the period from the early slightly folkish stuff up to the Jailbreak album(1976). I also love record cover artwork and I've really enjoyed taking in the artwork created by Jim Fitzpatrick for the band in the 70's. You may know Jim's work without knowing you do, he created the iconic stark graphic image of Che Guevera in the sixties.

I love the mixture of clean Neal Adams-style inking, mixed with comic book sci-fi and celtic imagery in this stuff. I prefer the scrappy comic-book vitality to be found in these earlier examples of his work over his later, more refined work based on Celtic myths and legends.

Below are a selection of Thin Lizzy related artwork (hopefully) in order of creation:


Ink artwork for cover design of 'Vagabonds of the Western World'(1973)


Rough layout for full-page advertisement for 'Vagabonds'


Cover artork for 'Nightlife'(1974)




Exterior and interior artwork for 'Jailbreak'(1976). This was in the good ol' days of gatefold sleeves and die cutting.


Cover artork for 'Johnny the Fox'(1976)


Unused promotional work 'The Wizard'(1979)

Sketchbook 002

A page full of pen doodling weirdness. Is it obvious I'm reading the Judge Dredd Case Files lately?

Just around the corner...

Covered - 2000AD - Strontium Dog

Just had a cover re-interpretation shown on Covered.



The original was by the great Carlos Ezquerra. He's one of those guys that I wholly took for granted reading 2000AD reprints as a kid but now I'm that bit older I can really appreciate the sheer quantity of pages he churned out, especially for massive twenty-something Judge Dredd epics such as 'The Apocalypse War'.



If he was a movie director he'd be someone like Don Siegel, you may not see him up on the podium at the Oscars, but he's consistently knocked the ball out of the park.

Vlad

This is a recent piece I've finished. It's in pencil, watercolour and ink. Decided to really ramp up the bold outlines. Pretty happy with how it turned out though made a cock-up inking in the loops of the crown of thorns. Someday soon I'll get it all right.

The original artwork can be bought on Etsy here, go on, christmas is coming!

Vintage Wisdom

I've recently created illustrations for Vintage Wisdom. They offer original work from designers and illustrators printed on canvas and also silk scarves. These original works below were created at 100cm x 100cm so mucho mondo file sizes all round!

Soul Scream Queen