David Hughes’s work features regularly in magazines such as the New Yorker, GQ and Esquire. His style is well established and easily recognisable through use of a limited pallet, almost naive untidy fine ink line and disproportionate figures. Even when viewed out of context, his illustrations and their multiple elements can often be decoded to reveal the images meaning. David Hughes uses lines, shapes and text to guide the viewer through the illustrations message. Not unlike traditional political cartoons, the line technique is untidy and sketchy but is supported by soft blocks of tone, photographs, graph and textured papers combined to produce images which engage the viewer and invite closer inspection.
“Any lineEyes down lookingFive and four – fifty fourIt’s December 1962 and Jack Richards a family friend asked the classic question, ‘What are you going to be when you grow up?’ I hate the title Illustrator and if you want to be an illustrator don’t harbour romantic inclinations of being an artist, compromise will destroy your soul, eventually.”
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