Last Duel
(From the book "Heroes &
Villains 2")
By : Deborah Susan Jones : Editor
This Artwork was one
of many created for the UK Advertising Agency Camel
Advertising, based in Sheffield, who brokered creative
input for several upwardly mobile Computer Games
companies at the time, among them U.S. Gold, who this
image was created for.
A simple "shoot-em-up"
image for a software game and typical of much of the
creative computer game packaging design output of the
Artist in the late 80's.
Rendered in oil and
acrylic on wood panel, a long-held basic technique of
the Artist, these works were often carried out to very
tight deadlines which saw the Artist frequently working
19 hour days with sleep a definite luxury, 3am deadlines
being a frequent event, such was the overheated and
exploding trajectory of the Software Games market that
demanded these images from him at that time.
Peter was fortunate that at that time his
Wimbledon-based studio was literally around the corner
from a very helpful woodyard and "old Jim" who worked
there took a special interest out of curiosity as to
what the wood panels that Peter frequently ordered, were
for.
Old Jim would say "what was yer after"
whenever Peter went around to request a panel be cut to
a specific size for the particular requirements of a
given project, and the woodyard and "old Jim" became key
inputs to the London Studio's material requirements, at
least as much as a more obvious central London graphics
or Fine Art supplies shop!
Deborah Susan Jones

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