Peter Davidson (artist)

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Peter Davidson has been a top flight^{[citation needed]} commercial artist for almost 40 years.

Davidson's work has appeared in numerous publications including national newspapers, magazines, and books.^{[citation needed]} He is also a painter of considerable talent.^{[citation needed]}

At present, Davidson is illustrating the iconic The Broons and Oor Wullie for the Sunday Post.

At the age of seven, Davidson first watched Dudley D. Watkins ,a near neighbour in Dundee Scotland, draw Oor Wullie. That experience planted the seed which grew into Peter's own career as an artist and provide a remarkable link to the present day Broons and Oor Wullie.

At age 20, Davidson joined DC Thomson, a Dundee publisher of newspapers,magazines and annuals. As a staff artist, his work appeared in a number of publications including the Scots Magazine, Peoples Journal and My Weekly. In the mid 1960's he left DC Thomsons to work for IPC in London, later returning to Scotland as a freelance artist. In the late 1970's he began his first stint as illustrator of the Broons but quit in 1984 to forge a successful association with Spangolf and Seve Ballesteros. Over the years the Ballesteros Method which Peter wrote and illustrated appeared in numerous publications worldwide. Davidson's strips such as Hacker and Wayout West became popular in the Sunday Scot, but ended with the demise of that newspaper.

In 1997, Davidson began his second stint as artist for The Broons and his first for Oor Wullie. The Sunday Post strips continue to claim a huge worldwide following.^{[citation needed]}