David Wyatt (artist)
David Wyatt is an English commercial artist.Biography
Born in Northampton, David Wyatt was adopted and raised in West Sussex. As a child, he learnt to play the piano; however, his interest in reading and drawing combined into a love of comics.
At 16, he attended art college in Reading, and obtained his first work doing the occasional page for British comic 2000 AD. He signed on for a further year at college, but left just two weeks later.
While having some menial jobs, he worked on his portfolio, practiced guitar and played in bands. He created the occasional cover commissions, but was just as keen to make a career in music. After an unsuccessful band tour of Scandinavia, he decided that the rock and roll lifestyle wasn't for him, and moved to Dartmoor to concentrate on illustration.
Wyatt has tried most media at some point, but now mainly produce work on an Apple Mac. The Dartmoor landscape provides inspiration; otherwise his ideas come from everywhere - "watching a film, walking round Sydney Opera house, the dog pulling a stupid face; anything."
Wyatt has illustrated Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean
and the Larklight trilogy and the Mortal Engines and Fever Crumb quartets by Philip Reeve. He also illustrated the series of Podkin books :).
He has also illustrated books by J. R. R. Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman, Terry Deary and Brian Jacques.
He was the cover artist for the eight-volume fantasy school stories Children of the Red King by Jenny Nimmo. He has also worked on album covers, computer games, beer labels and stamps.
Wyatt lives in Devon, in a market town on Dartmoor. He is a keen lutist, cyclist and wanderer of the moors.
