Poppy Art Nouveau Drawing.
This was a commission for a fully illustrated book that was to be based in the fantasy realm.
The publisher asked me how I would illustrate it and I reccomended using a “Quasi – Celtic ” style
using organic art nouveau themes crossed with Celtic art and they said that was perfect.
I wanted to do something different from the standard fantasy look.
The book was to be a spinoff from a well known tv series Game of Thrones.
I produced two drawings and then a cease and desist court order on the publishing company
halted the production of the book.
This is the first preliminary rough drawing.
I always start by drawing a line border and striking the centre of the image.
I always draw the preliminaries on high quality German made tracing paper and I use a mechanical pencil 0.5 and 0.7 in diameter with a soft 2B lead.
I like how I can erase easily with a putty rubber and smooth things out with my fingers on the tracing paper.
This is painted in Acrylic, pen &ink and coloured pencil.
This is still a work in progress and I hope to have it completed in 2026.
