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A Gannam Sketch
Following up on yesterday's post, here's a preliminary sketch in gouache and ink by John Gannam of polo players.
The book Forty Illustrators and How They Worked
describes how tireless he was with these sketches, which were created quickly out of his imagination from the moment he read the story he was asked to illustrate:
"At the outset we find John engrossed in his manuscripts, a pad and pencil handy for notations of illustrative possibilities. Then comes the graphic struggle with countless pencil and brush sketches. First ideas are as likely as later ones to be the best, but he won't be satisfied until he has worked all around the problem. He says he spends far more time in preparatory study and gets more fun out of it than in the execution of the finished painting."
Resources
There's no Wikipedia page on John Gannam. Would someone out there like to start one?
Flickr set: collected by Leif Peng
Online bio: He was honored in Society of Illustrator's Hall of Fame.
Book: Forty Illustrators and How They Worked
Magazine: Illustrators 51 with article on John Gannam (free digital preview with option to pay for download)
Previous posts which mention John Gannam
My book Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist covers the sketch process.
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