Tommy Penton, digital illustration

Tommy Penton is a successful graphic designer and a freelance Illustrator who is best known for working with artists such as Embrace, Babyshambles, New Order, Morcheeba and Talvin Singh, creating posters and CD artworks. Tommy has worked on nationwide advertising campaigns and worked for major brands such as British Airways, Kenzo, Virgin, Fabric, CIMA& Edinburgh Film Festival. Tommy created a book that was an "illustrated walk", it gave its readers a view of London that was both familiar and bizarre to them, like a wonderful panorama, it allowed people to follow the river Thames from Tate Modern to Tate Britain in a way that was even more exciting.


Penton's work to me is appealing in the way that alot of it features bright colours and a lot of people may find this a good element about his work but for me it is a bit of an eye strain. I do like that he brings the element of surrealism into his work as this makes it unique, and a lot more interesting.

Penton adds more detail by drawing patches instead of using lines. For example the patches drawn onto the man in the image to the right. I find this to be quite unsuccessful as it makes the things like the clothes and faces look quite shabby.

Pentons plain black and white images to me work a lot better than those with colour as there is more for you to work out yourself rather than than whats happening being right there in your face element of wonder to the image.

In my opinion penton's work is more interesting and more successful in black and white.