Joseph Bond grew up in Adelaide. His main interests were soccer and drawing. He played for the South Australian State league soccer team before devoting himself full-time to studies in illustration.
At home, inspired by the TV program Starsky and Hutch, he and his brothers liked to draw police cars. Joseph studied drawing and illustration at Elizabeth College of TAFE, where his teachers included Carol McLean Carr and David Kennett, and finished his course in the graphic arts school at Croydon College of TAFE.
Joseph was inspired by comic-book art, in particular the series Meltdown by Kent Williams and John J Muth, which was illustrated in watercolour. His own watercolour paintings are featured on the covers of Dave Luckett’s Tenabran Trilogy—A Dark Winter, A Dark Journey and A Dark Victory—and he contributed line drawings to Shipwreck at Madman’s Corner by Mike Lefroy.
Dave Luckett's Iron Soldiers gave Joe the opportunity to study medieval armour and costume, and to design and illustrate a nonfiction work in a distinctive way. His page design is a response to the challenge of illustrating the factual descriptions in the text by portraying elements of the story in montage fashion. Working in watercolour, gouache, acrylic paints and pen and graphite pencil on watercolour paper, he has re-created the drama of medieval combat and the blacksmiths’ craft.
Says Joseph, ‘I enjoy drawing, painting and creating images of things that might otherwise not exist’.
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