Another busy couple of days with cover art for both the UK and Australian Spectator magazines. The Aussie cover discusses the decline of cricket in recent years:

I supplied two colour variations, and the team chose the purple one as it looked more funereal.  Below is the blue-green one...

The English cover looks into scapegoating of the elderly, and asserts that it is actually the old carrying the young, which is what I've depicted, literally:

Below is the process, from quick thumbnail all the way to finished art.  For speed, I drew the sketched digitally, but I felt that this one would look better inked traditionally, so I printed out the sketch and used a lightbox to ink it using a #3 sable brush and acrylic ink.  Then I scanned it in again and coloured over the inks using Photoshop.  Please click for a closer look...

Thanks for looking!