Recently we caught up with Jon Boam the artist responsible for the amazing Colour Me Menagerie to ask him what makes him tick. Here’s what he had to say:
I am a 33 year old man, I live in Derbyshire with my wife and daughter, I have lived in a bunch of different places, done lots of different jobs and travelled far – always drawing in my spare time. I think I have always been interested in drawing, I enjoy comics, cartoons, science fiction, fantasy, imagining things and all the usual stuff. Over the past 3 years I have been focusing more of my energy on creating artwork, I have had various illustration commissions and been involved in some interesting group projects & collaborations. I love drawing characters and strange magical/technological objects – these are some of the themes I’m fond of – super powers, madness, time travel, mutants, monsters, aliens, space technology from the future, magic, secret caves,enchanted forests, robots, ghosts, interdimensional worm holes, insects, dinosaurs, animals, space ships, villains, idiots etc… I tend to draw most things out in pencil first on Bristol board before inking up with fine tip pens, I scan in and add colour on the computer. In the future I hope to focus more on comics and children’s books and look forward to more new & exciting collaborations.
