I was mourning the loss of Patrick McGoohan last week and decided to finish the Prisoner DVD series I bought a while back. It brought back a lot of memories watching it as a kid. It was WAY ahead of it’s time. So much so it only lasted 1 season. In memory of Patrick and a salute to the show I made some new Prisoner art. All done in Illustrator CS4! Check it out in my fan art gallery.

The Village Map is based on the map shown on the DVD and the paper map that came with the set. I spent a lot of time recreating the penny-farthing bicycle in color. The detail doesn’t show up on this wallpaper but I plan on doing one with just the bicycle and the prisoner type. Speaking of type. The type I used was the Village font based on Albertus, but while doing the artwork I noticed the Village font had really messy vectors and didn’t quite match the inter-titles from the TV show. I ended up redrawing the font from screenshots I took from the DVD to match the shows credits.

During research on for the art I found out that AMC is producing a new Prisoner Mini-Series starring Ian McKellen! Hopfully it will live up the the original.