Duncan Smith
Illustrator based in London
Illustration © Iain McCaig
Thank you for visiting my site and I hope you have enjoyed looking around and have found that collectable piece you have always wanted to own!
A little about me, I moved down to London after graduating from the Glasgow School Of Art. Luckily I had some good friends who'd moved down the year before, Iain McCaig and Joe Graham. (You've probably heard of Iain, does a bit of drawing for films, writes, directs, film maker and educator, all round renaissance man! Joe Graham is a designer, writer, singer and used to make a great
man-mountain pizza!)
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Anyway, after dragging my portfolio around all the Publishers I started to get lots of work. Iain was working on the FF books and they were looking for new artists and I ended up doing a whole bunch of fantasy work for Puffin Books and White Dwarf. They were really enjoyable books to do, and Iain and I would have great fun, taking turns posing, for each others drawings for some of the more outlandish characters in our respective books, from Lizard men, centaurs, wizards and the occasional giant!
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The rest as they say, is history, as that was over thirty years ago. My work is quite varied now, I work for a variety of publishing houses producing illustrations and some concept work for film, I write and illustrate children's books and how to draw books. I'm also an avid photographer and educator.
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One of the reasons that I'm selling this artwork is a chat I had recently with my old friend Tim Olsen. (Tim stayed in the flat below us and was then, the manager of Games Workshop. Tim is another multi talented guy, writer, artist and humanitarian and has the biggest heart!). When I mentioned I still had all the artwork for the books tucked away in my plan chest, he said that I should put them up for sale as there was a lot of interest from fans and collectors for FF art. So, Tim put out the word that I was selling some work and remarkably there was a lot of interest!
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So, here for the first time, all in one place, the artwork finally sees the light of day!
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