Secret Wars Doodle Battle With Pete Fowler
Live painting has always seemed really stressful and nerve-wracking to me. Combine that with a battle and it’s a recipe for severe anxiety. But Jon pulled it off masterfully in 2007 during a Nonpermanent Secret Wars doodle battle with Pete Fowler in Birmingham. Above is Jon’s finished piece from the battle. Below are some progress shots, the winners wearing their wrestler belts and a video. The following text is excerpted from Secret Wars on MySpace:
The night kicked off with a handful of the current Secret Wars artists showing off their skills alongside the locally based Agent and Chu. The press loved the artwork, but this was only a warm-up for the Burgerman/Fowler friendly battle later in the evening…Even Jon Burgerman, who described his style as “wibbly and wobbly”, felt honoured to be involved. “I am very humble and very honoured to be part of this. When I was younger, doodling was a much more nerdy thing, but now it is in the public domain it’s a cool thing,” he said.
Their styles, though both very quirky, looked rather sinister when viewed in Secret Wars black and white. Fowler, who described his most random location for a job as “Uri Geller’s house”, drew a gothic fairytale scene with long-haired fawn characters with horns playing a guitar. Burgerman explained that the highlight of his career so far would have to be “doing a computer game for Sony called Wipeout. I had all these 3D designers following my every instruction. I enjoy any project where people have faith in your own ideas. Any project like that is great.” His canvas stuck to his traditional character montage but in a much bolder style.
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