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JOSHUA MARSHALL David Hockney has to be up there for me. I’ve always admired his work from a youngish age. All his work inspires me, his very early pencil work all the way through to his later digital images. He’s probably my all time favourite, what a career!
Josh Marshall decodes his work with Patrick Morgan When did you first get into drawing? I’ve been drawing as long as I can remember, I used to enter lots of football kit design competitions from magazines, pretty much magazine competitions is where I started out. A very early memory was actually
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wining a Thundercats colouring competition, the prize was ‘a life time supply’ of refresher bars. Which apparently is about 50 bars, much to my mother’s delight. Why did you choose to make fashion part of your inspiration? If I’m honest, I never really started out in fashion illustration, I started out storyboarding for advertising, I’ve ‘storyboarded’ for years and there’s definitely an overlap in the industry. My illustration agency also decided to specify their target audience towards fashion, which I was more than happy to adapt too. My style leans towards portraiture and narrative which I’ve got from storyboarding, I always try and incorporate those elements into my current work. I love the freedom of fashion illustration,
