Looking at different illustration styles

I found this on www.zak.to its different artists illustarting the same man in different ways...

Simple Layout of the Facts of Each Legend

These are just two very simple layouts of the same facts about each legend so i can start looking at how i want to illustrate...

Local Legends

Beadle of Sotuhend-on-Sea
Known to want to write to the Duke of Edinborugh, to make sure everyone knows he is a 'nice man'. wears Raybans and a wide brimmed hat.. always

Penny Picker Steve
He is armed with a bucket... picks up any coins he sees and has been known to have a violent temper

Jesus Man Of Sutton
Known for his completely white attire, he lives in the Sutton park and wears matching white sandles. known to give out sweets and money to any passers by.


The Tickling Stick Man, Stockport
Dressed in Work Attire he wonders around with his suit trousers rolled up and carries a feather duster which is his weapon of choice

Chicken Mike - The man on the Bike, Widenss
Chicken Mike is a bearded middle aged man who wears three pairs of trousers. his bike is covered with plastic bags filled with his worldly possessions.

Shotgun Billy of Eccles
he dramatically whips out two non existent pistols which he twirls around his fingers before pointing them at some happless passer by. the 'guns' are then stuck back in his trousers and off he goes...

Forgetful Frank of Cheetham Hill
He's a bit chunky and wears a black Miners Jacket. He also modelled a pair or milk bottom Glasses and a wavy hair style. forgetfull Frank was given the name due to the fact he never knew where he was going.
spends all day taking 10 paces forward in different directions looking very confused

Boggy Bogston of Wigan
Often seen walking from town centre to standish although he has been spotted as far a field as salford. He looks like 'wheres wally' in a vicars uniform and when approached he will run away with his fingers in his ears

Johnny Rocco of Dorylsden
Walks into bookies with briefcase shouting 50 grand on the favourite. Briefcase was always empty of course!

Rabbit Man of Manchester
There's also a bloke who rides the buses of Manchester with a huge rabbit.

Bearded Woman Of Guilford
This woman in Guildford has long white hair and a full white beard. She also wears bright pink lipstick, and has a huge leapord skin style coat, topped off with slippers.
faveourite hangout: outside the Royal Grammar School

The Shadow, Newport
The Shadow is known to wear no shows... he is called the shadow because he suddenly just appears and stares at you out of no where.
he kicks you if you get too close

Ron Hoppers, Middlesbrough
Rons faveourite hang out is at the Marton Cricket club wherte he can be found doing poppers morning noon and night.
if he is not there he will be found shouting abuse at traffic lights as they change colour...

Jesus Man - aka Monk Man of Bradford
Jesus man is a very well known local legend... he wears brown 'jesus-like' sandles, and always a black long cloak, and he always has a black little bag around his neck... very friendly... and must have cold ankles...

Horace of Finchley
known to sit outside the macdonalds in finchley and shouts 'best of luck' everytime someone enters.... if you call him stanley he is known shout abuse at you until he can't see you anymore.... he loves his crayons

Rubber gloves Lady of Beckenham
This woman walks around Beckenham, and goes to Hayes carrying three of those Sainsbury's 'bag for life' bags. They are always full of shoping.
Unfortunately she can only carry two at a time, so what she does is she carries two of them ten metres, puts them down and goes back for the other one. She then picks up the other one, carries it forwards twenty metres and goes back for the others etc. oh and she's always sporting yellow marigolds!

Self Portrait

i saw another local legend today known as Penny Picker Steve
i didn't want to waste any oportunites and so i got him to do a self portrait of himself as my camera wasn't to hand....

I Got Lucky

I couldn't beleive my luck!

got on a bus today.... and Beadle was at the back!
He was chatting jibberish... so i went to chat with him...

gutted i didn't have my camera... i wrote down what he was saying and recorded it on my phone....

these are some bullet points of what our 5 minute converstaion entailed....

* my parents were paying their rates before the war
* people in the towwn are saying im a bad man
* im not a bad man am i?

* i live near the library in town

* there making a grrave mistake they are, they are i tell you they are
* who do you think i have to write to? the duke of edinburgh? the priminister??
* i just don't know who to write to?
* they can't say i'm a bad person can they?
* i was born and brought up in Westcliff. i still live there now.
* my parents paid rates they did

* i'm a nice man
* they can't say im not a nice man, my late parents said i was a nice man

* my names michael
* i don't want to tell you my surname... that doesnt matter does it?? its not a horrible surname i just don't want to tell you it

* i used to work for the council, but then they laid me off, i worked in the gardens up in liegh didn't i

* i was born after the war
* went to Chalkwell and Fairfax school years ago.

* only lord is perfect my late grandma said... none of us are perfect, if we were we wouldn't be here...
* that doesnt make me bad though, im a nice man i am. i'm nice aren't i?

* people are making a grave mistake
* im going to the police to ask them who to write to

on the holy bible i'm a nice person.


He was wearing....
A wide brimmed hat
A big checked scarf
a big dark blue waterproof coat
Raybans... Black ones
Blue jeans
Black shoes
Grey socks

Other Strange Characters

this site is all the local legends around england...

http://www.freewebs.com/locallegend/

Beadle of Southend

This is 'Beadle' he's been a legend of southend for over 20 years... he is spotted everywhere... no one knows where he lives... what he does.. what his real name is...

or what's in that bag he always seems to have....






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