Ambit Magazine

  • Juliana Futter

This triptych was based on the winner of Ambit issue 35's drugs and creative writing competition from 1968, Trip Tick. The short story follows a psychedelics fuelled descriptive word flow about their ex-wives, which I then shaped into a visual narrative over the three images. Trip Tick is extremely detailed (including one full page of their sexual preferences listed) and I used visual cues to insinuate the drug use, time period and location in small features within the illustration. I looked to OZ magazine who used illustrators such as Martin Sharp and Robert Crumb to inform the detail heavy visual language and the tone for the late 60s

Ambit Magazine by Juliana Futter
Ambit Magazine by Juliana Futter
Ambit Magazine by Juliana Futter
Juliana Futter
Freelance illustrator