Gulliver Interior Art 1
30/December/2009
The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.
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The Gulliver’s Travels book project I’ve been working on, wrapped up earlier this month, with the completion of the interior line art. This was a great assignment and the people at Random House were fantastic to work with. I’ve posted a few of the pieces here and will add a few more in a follow up.
Jonathon Swift’s story is now considered a children’s classic but was originally conceived as a satiric commentary on human nature. The book is divided into a series of four voyages, with each destination’s setting serving as a foil for the author’s take on the human condition.
The first trip, finds a shipwrecked Gulliver awash on the beach in Lilliput, a land in which everything is one-twelfth normal size, making Gulliver a giant among the population. The tables get turned one hundred eighty degrees on the second trip, when Gulliver arrives in Brobdingnag, a place where everything is twelve times larger than normal. A pirate attack in trip three leaves Gulliver marooned on a deserted atoll, where he is rescued by the residents of Laputa, a flying island. In the final voyage, Gulliver has become a pirate himself, and after being set adrift in a lifeboat by his crew, winds up in a world where horses rule and humans are no more than savage beasts.
I took a very simple approach to creating the drawings for the book, using nothing more than an HB pencil on Strathmore paper. The finished drawings were then scanned, imported into Photoshop, and saved as PS files for delivery to the client.
Frontispiece: A young Gulliver dreams of exploring the world.
The scene everyone recalls from the book, Gulliver washed up on the beach in Lilliput.
Gulliver escapes the Lilliputian king’s wrath in a makeshift sailboat and is rescued by an English ship.
A dumbfounded farm hand discovers Gulliver in a Brobdingnag field and turns him over to a local farmer.
Gulliver is exhibited as a curiosity and coached to perform as a javelin thrower by the farmer’s daughter.
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The Gulliver’s Travels book project I’ve been working on, wrapped up earlier this month, with the completion of the interior line art. This was a great assignment and the people at Random House were fantastic to work with. I’ve posted a few of the pieces here and will add a few more in a follow up.
Jonathon Swift’s story is now considered a children’s classic but was originally conceived as a satiric commentary on human nature. The book is divided into a series of four voyages, with each destination’s setting serving as a foil for the author’s take on the human condition.
The first trip, finds a shipwrecked Gulliver awash on the beach in Lilliput, a land in which everything is one-twelfth normal size, making Gulliver a giant among the population. The tables get turned one hundred eighty degrees on the second trip, when Gulliver arrives in Brobdingnag, a place where everything is twelve times larger than normal. A pirate attack in trip three leaves Gulliver marooned on a deserted atoll, where he is rescued by the residents of Laputa, a flying island. In the final voyage, Gulliver has become a pirate himself, and after being set adrift in a lifeboat by his crew, winds up in a world where horses rule and humans are no more than savage beasts.
I took a very simple approach to creating the drawings for the book, using nothing more than an HB pencil on Strathmore paper. The finished drawings were then scanned, imported into Photoshop, and saved as PS files for delivery to the client.
Frontispiece: A young Gulliver dreams of exploring the world.
The scene everyone recalls from the book, Gulliver washed up on the beach in Lilliput.
Gulliver escapes the Lilliputian king’s wrath in a makeshift sailboat and is rescued by an English ship.
A dumbfounded farm hand discovers Gulliver in a Brobdingnag field and turns him over to a local farmer.
Gulliver is exhibited as a curiosity and coached to perform as a javelin thrower by the farmer’s daughter.