EXTRACTS: illustrators issue 2 © 2012 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition))

4 and interiors for fashionable magazines such as Modern Weekly and Home Chat . As his confidence grew and the quality of his work commanded more attention, he found himself working on a wide variety of commissions that played to his strengths, one of which was an abiding passion for fast cars and aircraft and the other was for delineating equally racy-looking women. Covers from Modern Weekly and Home Chat reveal a voguish sense of design abetted by a precise key-line and an already well informed sense of light; the images seem to literally glow with vitality. He was, by all accounts, an insouciant charmer and it was therefore hardly surprising that he eventually married one of the many beautiful women who posed for him. David Wright married Esme Little in 1935 and she not only continued to model for him but also provided a sounding board for his many ideas, one of which was to have a marked effect on the course of their lives. But for the moment Wright’s most pressing concern was to make the most of his undoubted talents and, with new responsibilities and the need All images on this page courtesy of the Mary Evans Picture Library ABOVE TOP: An early pencil drawing of the artist’s wife Esme, who frequently modelled for David Wright. ABOVE AND RIGHT: Examples of David Wright’s artistry, an innate sense of design, coupled with assured draftsmanship already distinguished the work of the twenty year old illustrator.