Sports Illustrated Kids Illustration
There are a lot of magazines I’d really like to do work for, but high on that list has always been Sports Illustrated Kids. I was therefore thrilled when I got a call from SI Kid’s art director asking if I was available to do a piece for them. The project was a two page spread featuring caricatures of several pro athletes engaging in the jobs they were quoted as saying they’d like to have if they weren’t professional athletes. The result is the image above, which appears in the March 2011 issue on news stands now.
Here’s one of the rounds of pencil sketchs placed in the mock layout they sent me:
Click for a closer look…
And here are closer looks at the individual athletes:
Washington Mystics guard Katie Smith
Houston Texans’ running back Arian Foster
NY Yankee’s outfielder Curtis Granderson and
Washington Redskins Tight End Chris Cooley
U.S. Ski Team’s Lindsey Vonn
Indiana Pacer’s forward Danny Granger
A very fun project. Hopefully the first of many.
Great job as always Tom!
Hey Tom, is that Mike Peters in the dentist chair???
Great job! Always impressive!
I was also going to ask if that’s a young Mike Peters in the chair! Thanks for sharing the close-ups!
Not Mike Peters.