Shane Lowry

Editorial illustration of Champion Irish Golfer, Shane Lowry, for the Sunday Independent newspaper

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Case Study

It would have been very easy to depict Shane in a straight-forward portrait. But Eugene’s article was about county pride—even pride of the town of Tullamore, County Offaly. So I wanted to incorporate as much of that as I could design into it. And the design was important. It also would have been easy to just stick an Offaly flag behind Shane, but I wanted more than that simplistic approach.

So I took elements of the Offaly flag and incorporated the motifs and colours around and into Shane. I was very keen on the notion of County Offaly—and Tullamore town folk especially—tearing the page out of the paper and putting it on their walls. A sort of souvenir piece.

Illustrator: John White
Client: The Sunday Independent
Painting: Goauche, acrylic, pencil, on paper
Colouring/Finishing: Photoshop