Marco Polo
Well this is really Marco’s story – so another portrait! I wanted to emulate the iconic image of the real Polo, but to bring in an element of the Doctor Who story – Mark Eden is actually a great face to draw, angular without being overly lined. (I hate all lines and wrinkles, uses far too much charcoal!). I kind of liked bringing the idea of a palimpsest into this, adding scraps of the journal scenes as background. Marco Polo’s life is presented to us through his journeys and his writings (you wouldn’t want to be sat oposite him at a party!), and the story is so episodic.
