Illustrator and graphic designer Christopher Green wants to start a conversation with you and it begins with a picture, writes Drew Taylor.


After years of interviewing artists I’ve learned a few tricks. The first is this: if you want to really get to know an artist, take a look at their self-portraits.

Flick through the online portfolio of Adelaide-based illustrator Christopher Green—better known to his clients as ‘Stoph’—and you’ll find several of them. One depicts him as a skeleton in a hoodie, surrounded in a green phosphorous glow.
Another has him in a cartoon-like uptake, reflected in a small coffee cup, drawn in the same style as MC Esher’s classic self-portrait.

Yet another as a purple-tinged zombie; one as a Rubik’s cube wiz; another as a tall waif hovering half a metre above the ground, oversized hands hung limp in front of him. And, of course, there’s his most recent portrait, more serious in tone than the others, showing a heavily bearded man with a gentle face, piercing eyes and a deeply furrowed brow.

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