Description:
'Football Mishmash' is a massive hand-drawn illustration created from over 500 famous and infamous incidents from the history of football and featuring approximately 2000 individual characters.
'Football Mishmash' features everything from Geoff Hurst's goal in the 1966 World Cup Final to Rene Higuita's incredible Scorpion Kick for Colombia; the tragedy of the Hillsborough Disaster, to Zinedine Zidane's notorious headbutt on Marco Materazzi in the 2006 World Cup Final; Sylvester Stallone's penalty save in the movie Escape to Victory, to a timeline of David Beckham, and perhaps more importantly, his haircuts!
Started in April 2012, I have spent countless hours researching this project, sketching from historic incidents on You Tube, ensuring football kits and clothing were as accurate as possible to picking the brains of friends to see what incidents throughout they could recall.
All characters and incidents have been individually drawn. Once inked, I would scan and colour the drawing in Photoshop. I would then drag the illustration into the main image.
Finding a space for each incident proved to be one of the most time consuming aspects of this project.
