Looking at Luke: Illustrator Luke Thornhill

We catch up with Luke Thornhill, a graphic designer and illustrator living in London, to ask him a few questions about his work and his favourite choice in undies.

You recently did some illustrations for Curbwear. Describe your style of illustrating. 

Queer pop art. I love colour so I tend to use a lot of bold colours that catch the eye. 

So how did you get into illustrating? 

I grew up painting and drawing so being an illustrator isn't that new to me. I did fashion at university so I was always illustrating garments, then after university I went into Graphic Designer but I started drawing in my spare time and soon realised I could make a career out of it... well attempt to.

  

When starting a new idea, what do you pick up first, a pencil or straight to digital?

You’ve drawn a lot of hot guys! What’s your favourite part of a guy to draw?

Tell us more about the CensorThisDick project.

The activity book came around whilst I was on a bus with steamy windows. Like any adult, I was drawing dicks on the window and my friend kept turning them into cats. Then a few months later I made a little book full of dicks for her to censor and suddenly lots of people were asking for one so I decided to make the Censor This Dick book.

You occasionally post a selfie on Instagram or Twitter, which gets a great reaction from your fans. Any plans to illustrate one of your undie selfies?! 

Ha, no plans as of yet. I hate drawing myself. Looking at yourself in so much detail just makes you focus more on your faults so I tend to just illustrate other people. 

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