Having trained in
3D design (specialising in
silversmithing and jewellery), Yeowell began drawing comics purely for pleasure, with no particular intention to become a professional artist. Having shown his portfolio to artist
Bryan Talbot, he quickly found himself given work by
Swiftsure (on the ''Lieutenant Fl'ff
strip). After this, he worked on a "dummy comic" David Lloyd was creating for Fleetway called Fantastic Adventure
. This was his first meeting with writer Grant Morrison, who was writing the California Crew
strip ("loosely based on the A-Team") Yeowell was drawing. While Fantastic Adventure'' wasn't picked up,
John Higgins asked Yeowell to help him with a music magazine's comic strip off the back of it and, afterwards, helped him get work at
Marvel UK. He started on
Spider-Man and Zoids before doing
Action Force and later
ThunderCats. On
Zoids, he worked with Morrison again and as a result, Morrison picked Yeowell to be the main artist on new superhero strip
Zenith, to run in
2000 AD beginning in 1987.
Zenith was a success, running to four full-length series plus several one-offs. Yeowell was headhunted by American comics companies and has worked on
Batman,
The Fantastic Four,
The Invisibles,
JSA and
Starman. He continued his association with Morrison, collaborating on
Sebastian O and
The New Adventures of Hitler. Yeowell's work is noted for delicate penmanship and lifelike facial expressions, with a notable economy of style that means that his work suits both colour and
monochrome treatment. He works with a dip pen (Gillot 404 nib) and a Windsor & Newton Series 7 No.3 sable brush, as well as
Rotring and marker pens, on 220 g/m2 Daler Rowney Heavyweight Cartridge Paper. The concentration on human features means that Yeowell's work is held to suit superhero, science fiction and historical genres equally. Later work has included
The Red Seas, an eighteenth-century pirate story scripted by
Ian Edginton and science fiction
Triad tale
Red Fang by
Steve Moore. ==Bibliography==