Within three years of junking my old folio and the penny pinching briefs that the contents of it had attracted, I was represented by one of London’s top agents (although that was to prove problematic) and fielding a wide variety of briefs. You never knew just what the next job would be—everything from illustrating high circulation weeklies and newspapers, to packaging, overnight storyboarding (where you would literally be locked in the ad agency overnight while you produced the goods), posters, corporate logos. I pretty much covered every conceivable application of illustration throughout the second half of the 1980s.
A year later and my wife and I, with new baby in tow moved to a much larger house (with a concomitantly much larger mortgage). It was late August 1988 and as we were about to discover, the good times were not going to last forever.
Here’s some more examples of the work I was undertaking.
