abacus wrote:Ah! Now you have explained it I can see it.I know you are a writer Phoenix and drawing art is not your forte but did someone ask you to draw this particular cover ?If so ,it's OK for a first attempt.
No, abacus, I have to hold my hands up and acknowledge that I did not draw that dog. My Art teacher at school, Mr Rickaby, was excellent when demonstrating, for example, the ways that Turner used curves in the construction of a specific painting to obtain the effects he was trying to achieve. However, he was considerably less successful when it soon appeared that he was expecting rather more of me than I was capable of providing, or indeed willing, as frankly I was considerably more interested in my imaginary football leagues. As a result, my head was rarely in his classroom, and for some reason he was not willing to judge my work as better than 40%, and that was only in the exams when I did make a bit of an effort.
I wasn't above making use of other people's artwork for my own ends though when the need arose. See below for the front cover of a six-page programme for a Shoot game against one of my friends. The match was ten minutes each way, but it took me a lot longer than that to produce the programme. Unfortunately I can't remember where exactly I borrowed the artwork from, but it will almost certainly have been a match programme produced by some team or other. It's not as if I didn't have a lot because at the time I used to write directly to clubs to ask for a copy of one of their recent programmes, and they would send me one by return of post free of charge. How else would I have been able to add to my collection those from clubs such as Grimsby Town, East Fife, Bristol Rovers, Barrow, and Heart Of Midlothian (as they used to be called)? They were lovely days. Where have they all gone?
Some inside pages
