Champions
Leeds United, champions of 2019/20 — a Marcelo Bielsa print made to give promotion-season catharsis some ceremony, with a lockdown coda of El Loco portraits.
About the Project
Leeds United, EFL Champions of 2019/20 — and, briefly, the only thing in football that made any sense before the world lurched sideways.
The piece ran in The Square Ball's Campeón Special, a 228-page celebration of the title-winning season that Eamonn put together beautifully.
The print is available here. Like almost everything I make, it started life on an iPad and then got dramatically overcommitted.
Lockdown appendix
Folded in at the end is a short run of Marcelo Bielsa portraits I drew during lockdown, when the Championship was suspended and sketching El Loco felt like a reasonable substitute for watching him actually prowl a touchline. As it turned out, a global respiratory pandemic and a Championship season are not especially compatible.
They sit slightly outside the Campeón piece, but they belong to the same strange weather: too much waiting, no football, and an iPad as the only studio left once the world decided to stay indoors for a while.
Open any figure to inspect surface, print detail, and framing more closely without losing the overall sequence.
Promotion-season catharsis, given some ceremony.
It started life on an iPad and then got dramatically overcommitted.
The Campeón Special — 228 pages of title-winning season, beautifully put together.
A short run of El Loco portraits from when the Championship was suspended — too much waiting, no football, and an iPad as the only studio left.
Sequence note
Every figure here opens full-screen — click any plate to expand it, then arrow or swipe through the sequence without losing your place. The work is drawn at resolutions far beyond the page, so getting closer is actively encouraged.
