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TOM RICHMOND: ILLUSTRATIVE EVOLUTION

November 16, 2015

Tom Richmond demonstrates the evolution of an illustration from rough sketch to finish by walking us through a cover for Library Journal magazine. The article was about libraries surviving shrinking budgets and other difficult challenges; the concept tied in to the idea of the TV show “Survivor” nicely.

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Tom used circling sharks to represent the challenges libraries have to deal with, and made the island they were on ridiculously small, both adding to the sense of adversity and demonstrating their shrinking resources.

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The sharks represented the erosion of funding, with them chomping up money in the image. Tom had the female librarian looking defiant and confident that this can all be dealt with. Here are more roughs with perspective and detail variations:

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The client liked the bird’s eye angle that really showed how small the island was, and how surrounded by threat the librarians were. After a little refinement, here are the inks and final art:

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Story told, sausage made… The End!

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Tags: Tom Richmond, Editorial, Illustration, Magazine

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