The Father of Television
A portrait of Philo T. Farnsworth, the man who brought the monster into the world.
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© 2007 John Dilworth (http://www.johndilworth.com)
81 May 19, 2007 · comments: 4
A portrait of Philo T. Farnsworth, the man who brought the monster into the world.
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I love this illustration john, It really makes you contemplate the upbringing of the monster plus you’ve captured its birth place wonderfully.
Awesome, John, just awesome. I am noticing a small graphic theme in your work. Are you including the lightning bolt in each illustration is it coincidental? I always put a small black & white circle somewhere in my illustrations…kind of a hidden signature, I guess.
Are these purely digital? Just wondering…
The lightning bolt isn’t really a signature item for me, it is more of a symbol that I’m using to represent unspoken communication. In the Fox and the Stork, it represents the non-vocalized anger between the two parties. In this piece, it represents more literally the communication sent from the radio/tv tower to the television. The finger pointing upward receiving the communication is a token submission by the television baby to the media which will ultimately control it.
And to answer your second question, yes these are purely digital (photoshop and wacom tablet) based on hand drawn sketches.
...who lived in Rigby, Idaho just 20 minutes up the road from me. (trivial pursuit bonus points, I guess.)
dear john, (ha! iv’e always wanted to do that, you must get iot alot,sorry) anyhoo, i just want to ask why you dion’t have any thing about your technique or the size of your work? i needed examples of contemporary work depicting televisions and cant use this perfect example coz i don’t know what it is really. drawing? pencil? soft pastels? eigh?
These are 100% pure digital created with Adobe Photoshop using a Wacom tablet. I create them at high resolution (this image specifically could be printed at 18”x30” at full 300dpi resolution).