What word would you use to describe the sound of a tennis ball being hit at Wimbledon? 🎾 I spent the entire time painting this illustration of ‘Centre Court, Wimbledon’ imagining THAT sound… it was very distracting! 😆
I created this one for my ’Sports, Festivals & Events’ collection. Usually scenes I get asked for as little gifts and greetings cards over on my Etsy shop. This one will be available in that online store and listed here on my studio shop shortly. I managed to capture a bit of a time lapse of the painting and ink work (shown below). After working on the female figures from the references I had picked out, it seemed like a nice idea to adapt the artwork ever so slightly with two male competitors. Easily done by scanning the original scene back into Adobe Fresco and adding/adjusting some choice details. Obviously the figures, but the scoreboard and serve display too.
I’ve already tested out the two scenes on a coffee mug. They go very nicely together. I also have the ‘ladies’ singles’ version on order as a greetings card; so i’m looking forward to getting those back from the printers in the next couple of days. I’d love to see if I could work this up into a poster too, but that will require some further design work I think.