"two punks go out for a nice meal at a fancy restaurant"
2018
Made in collaboration with Australian artist Simon Zoric, “Two punks go out for a nice meal at a fancy restaurant” is a pair of illustrations emulating the style of the daily cartoons found in The New Yorker. I illustrated them digitally however they were then photo-lithographed on to Somerset paper & framed for his solo show at Gertrude Glasshouse, Pig In A Poke.
As this was a collaboration Zoric was very specific with what he wanted the characters to be doing in each panel. In the first we see two punks greeting the maître d'at a cliched French fine dining establishment. With one punk using the offensive hand gesture of two fingers up, in order to indicate they wanted a table for two. The second panel shows two punks inside the restaurant completely trashing their table. With other dinings and wait staff completely unfazed by their presence.
Gallery Photo’s courtesy of Christo Crocker.
Zoric had a vision for how these illustrations worked within his entire exhibiting. So this brief was very thorough about layout, art direction & even character design. My initial attempts were too 1980’s North American punk for his taste so I pivoted towards a more classic British 1970’s attire.
In the beginning we also experimented with colour before deciding a classic black & white cartoon style made the most sense. With Photo-lithographing them creating an even greater depth of colour & texture than just ink-jet printing my drawings on to paper.
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