Kevin Hauff had an interesting challenge recently from Radio Times Magazines to create an illustration to accompany a new dramatization of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
"This was for the radio pages, so the usual small repro scale applies - therein lies the challenge!, explained Hauff. "I concentrated on Yorick the Jester's skull, the crown overlapping into the skull lower jaw and the poisoned dagger that finally dispatches Hamlet."
Hauff continues to say, "Depicting them in a symbolic macabre way with them situated in a surreal dark brooding landscape. I was originally intending to have swathes of mist enveloping the skull and figure but somehow they reduced the impact so it was left with a much starker high contrast between the skull and background."
