I’ll be talking at the Liverpool Irish Festival, Friday 24th October

As part of the Liverpool Irish Festival I’ll be at Liverpool School of Art & Design on Friday the 24th of October at 2pm, talking about illustration and sea monsters. Ireland’s part in the development of submarine warfare is also likely to get a mention.

Image from Worse Things Happen at Sea, published by Nobrow.

HMS Holland 1

Submariner frog

Some frightful war pictures

by W. Heath Robinson, at Golden Age Comic Book Stories. Originally published in 1915.

NEUTRAL!

A Swiss shepherd watching a Battle on the Frontier.

OH U!

The German Periscoper: “Ach, Himmel! Dot most be der peautiful Ben Nevis of vitch ve ’ave ’eard so mooch!”

More here.

I name this ship Daffodil

Earlier here.

Submerged again

Earlier here. Oh to see this in a ViewMaster version! (More ViewMaster images here.)

Parrot in a panic

Splish splash

. . . here’s something started last Saturday night.

First in pencil,

then sketching tones in acrylic paint,

then having second thoughts about the composition and sketching in Photoshop,

implementing the changes in physical paint,

and so on.

It’s got some way to go, but now I’m taking a break to draw the sea monster on the next spread.

Submarine

‘Coffee break’

From dutchsubmarines.com.

Submarines and Sea Monsters

Two exciting drawings by Bo. 

Above: A submarine attacking four sea monsters. The craft is covered with sensors and guns that fire explosive harpoons.

Below: Unmanned midget subs attacking two sea monsters. The mini subs have pincers and shoot incendiary electric shock harpoons.

Sea monsters by Bo’s father can be found in an earlier post here.

More submarines at The Sub Report, through which we found Iranian subs large and small at Iran Ballistic. Bo also enjoyed this BBC report on a Scottish built rescue sub made for export to China.

Art copyright © Bo Jacobs Strøm