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KEVIN SPROULS IS CONSCIOUSLY COUPLING

October 4, 2022

Kevin Sprouls looks back on some of the double portraits he has illustrated over the years, depicting both business and romantic partnerships. "In order to achieve this ‘looking at you’ effect, I had to position the two images with great care so their eyes would meet," says Kevin of this drawing of Composer Wagner and Conductor Chereau for The Wall Street Journal.

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Two more examples from the WSJ, including a happily married couple, and the heads of the ad agency, Koray/Kay Advertising:

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For The New Yorker magazine in the 1990's, here is an image from the 1936 Japanese film, “Osaka Elegy”:

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More recently, Kevin has been commissioned to draw portraits of couples for gifts and special occasions. "I enjoy representing the expression of love between two people in these images":

 

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