Achillian Graphics Company :: Master Index
Sunday, March 28th, 2010The Achillian Graphics Company :: Master Index & Wire Service is the illustration and design work of Mark McLawhorn.
The Achillian Graphics Company :: Master Index & Wire Service is the illustration and design work of Mark McLawhorn.
At the dawn of the 20th century, newspaper comics began as monoliths of design, taking up entire pages of Sunday sections and demanding attention. The beginning of the 21st century saw newspaper comics all but neutered, their formidable stature now relegated to tiny crevices and afterthoughts.
This is an attempt in reinventing the newspaper comic strip into something new, yet obviously familiar.
Heavily inspired by the works of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, this diptych is the marriage of the Baroque style with tools and sentiment rooted in 21st century technological palette of machine-aided design.
Even though the final illustration was created inside of a computer and then printed on Kodak Ektacolor paper, all images were first drawn and hypothesized in simple sketchbook format.
Please feel free to examine these sketches and enjoy the free desktop wallpapers and other treats found within this electronic page.
Every Friday since the late 90′s, during the normal school calendar year, I draw an editorial illustration for Technician. Technician is North Carolina State University’s student-run newspaper since 1920.
This is a site that collects the editorial illustrations dedicated to Wolfpack Athletics.