Eiko says:
I born in Estonia and live here in Estonia right now. I have been drawing ever since I remember. My father was a architect and he really liked what I did. After a few schools I started to work as a graphic designer and freelance illustrator which I enjoy a lot more. I few years ago I took a year and half off and traveled around Asia and Pacific, which is when I met Bruno. Now I'm back home and planning new travels. Working with Worldshaker illustrations was big fun for me and I really enjoyed drawing them.
(Estonia is on the Baltic Sea, opposite Finland and Sweden. Not surprising that Eiko in the photo looks rugged up against the cold!)
Richard says:
I've never met Eiko, though I hope to some day. It was strange working with someone across 15,000 kilometres distance. Sarah, my editor at Allen & Unwin, was in direct contact with Eiko - I made suggestions indirectly.
The first thing I scanned and sent was a sloppy sort of sketch to show how I thought the juggernaut ought to look. Like this -
Very vague and wispy, just as you'd expect from someone whose hand never seems able to imitate the images in his mind. For a while, it was difficult for Eiko to form an idea from the sketch, but when he did, he produced this little beauty of an image:
(Not actually in that colour, but I thought it was time for a bit of variety.) Incredible, how he gathers infinitesimally small details and incorporates them into his artwork - for example, the town that the juggernaut is not quite rolling over, in the bottom left hand corner. Check it out in close-up!
Now for Eiko's fabulous cutaway diagrams, labelled as they're labelled in the book. See Col's bedroom, Sir Mormus's steam elevators, the Graveyard Rooms and more! But I don't want to overload this page, I'll put them on a separate page.  |
