Pick-Art
Tony Pickering (MFA Manchester School of Art 2018) is an Illustrator based in the Northwest. He has developed a practice in Graphic Medicine, cartooning and mapping spaces through narrative and folklore. Representing research, he covers various briefs from medical communication, urban visualisation, poetic imagining, scribing for conferences, to infographic representation.
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Pick-ArtManchester: Courrier CapersDesign for a tea towel series illustrating research into Courier experiences and the impact of the Gig Economy View Folio
Pick-ArtPollution: OvercrowdingCard for education card game about CO2 effects and solutions. View Folio
Pick-ArtDreammaker OriginsComic strip for internal communications (MQube). This is the artwork of an origin story for a super-powered mortgage advisor. View Folio
Pick-ArtMapping Doctors LogoLogo for the Mapping Doctors project - researching GPs and social deprivation. View Folio
Pick-ArtHopeless HeistResearch drawing to develop characters (Max, Persephone & Eric) for a comic series. Personal Projects View Folio
Pick-ArtShadow & BonePoster style montage of the Shadow & Bone (series 1) cast. Personal Project View Folio
Pick-ArtGlasgow AnarchistsComic artwork for a series exploring the history of Anarchism in Glasgow. View Folio
Pick-ArtManchester SightsA graphic representation of a journey through Manchester city centre View Folio
Pick-ArtThe Meaning of Stonhenge: the time vortexPage from 'The Meaning of Stonehenge', a comic rendering of an academic paper exploring contemporary responses to Stonehenge. View Folio
Pick-ArtBrain PlasticityVisualisation of a potential light sculpture for Artichoke & the Durham Lumiere View Folio
Pick-ArtPandemic PortraitsA series of self portraits exploring lockdown. Personal Project View Folio
Pick-ArtFolklore MapFolklore Map for Gallowshields Literary Festival View Folio
Pick-Art‘Random Fluctuations’ p4Page 4 from a graphic poem, self published, exploring words, shape and letters. View Folio
Pick-ArtStock ExchangeIllustration for a playing card for the game "Carbon City Zero: World Edition" View Folio
Pick-ArtThe Cleaning Ninja p3Comic, Action, Movement, Figure, Energy, Humour View Folio
Pick-ArtDive-InSubmission for “Dive-In” the Brighton Fringe 2020 identity, incorporating elements of the fringe festival. Pencil, Ink and Adobe
Creative Suite. The intention was to explode a sense of vibrancy through movement and colour. View Folio
Pick-ArtDown to a sunless seaIllustration and Design of Cover and banner images for ‘Down to a Sunless Sea: Memories of my Dad’ Podacst. Conversations between David Pickering and his father as he progresses through vascular dementia. The images centre around the fludity of memory and the enigmatic quality of the sea.Handdrawn & Adobe Creative Suite. View Folio
Pick-ArtRich Picture of research for covid & meRich picture, research, sketch notes View Folio
Pick-ArtMachynllethCarbon City Zero: Landscapevisualisation and illustration for a card game design to promote de-carbonisation. Pencil, Ink and Adobe Creative Suite. View Folio
Pick-ArtThe landscape of type 1“Diabetes: Year One” is a collection of graphic poems that covers my first year (and a bit) after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and the experience of becoming a patient, and accepting, resisting and understanding what that means to me.
Coloured pencils and Adobe Creative suite. View Folio