Last month was one of the craziest months I have ever had in the studio. Besides the theme park operations in full summer swing, I did a six page parody for MAD, a two pager for Sports Illustrated Kids, several spot illustrations for Penthouse, a bunch of work for the ongoing project for comedian Jeff Dunham, art for two episodes of the MAD animated show for WB Animation/Cartoon Network and two poster illustrations for The Marlin Company, plus most of the art for the book… oh, yeah… and Comic-Con. Whew.

Right now I have nothing on the drawing board except the few illustrations I need to place and do captions for on the very last of the book, which goes to press on Aug. 15th. I’ve been turning down jobs in order to free up the first two week in August to wrap it up and get the files to the printer. Everything in on track for a timely arrive of the printed copies in mid-September as promised, and then a crazy week of shipping all the pre-orders I have received so far. Thanks to everyone who has placed an order!

Here is the art for one of the two Marlin posters I did last month, click either for a closer look:

Finished art

a peek at the pencil rough

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I’ve been swamped all summer, but have put several projects behind me in the last few weeks including:

• Sports Illustrated Kids- 2 pager
• MAD animated show work- Season Two begins
• Jeff Dunham Illustration Work
• The above Marlin Co. Poster illustration

I have just a few jobs on the board right now:

• MAD- 6 page parody for #511
• Yet another Marlin poster
• More Jeff Dunham stuff
• THE BOOK

Sport Illustrated Kids has quickly become one of my regular clients, much to my delight. That publication was always one of those I’d wanted to do work for, and after doing a project for them back in March I am already working on my third job for the magazine. The current issue just came out with some art I did for an article on funny “trophy mishaps”, infamous stories about how various sports trophies have been dropped, broken or in one case run over by a bus. Here are a few of the spot illustrations I did for the article:

The Real Madrid team drops their Kings cup under the bus…

Maria Sharapova double faulted here…

This cup runneth over…

Tom Watson bogeys this one…

You can see some of these on video here.

This week’s subject, east coast rapper Jay Z.

I’m currently working on the last parts of my book on drawing caricatures and a new episode segment for “MAD” on the Cartoon Network, which is all keeping me pretty busy. I should be able to share work from MAD #509, a few magazine jobs including a cover illustration and some other goodies this month.

In the meantime, here is my latest workplace poster job for The Marlin Company:

The pencil sketch

The final artwork

It’s rare that I don’t do any posting on The MAD Blog on any day but Saturday, but yesterday I was completely swamped after an all-nighter sunday night/Monday morning and some furious painting on a magazine cover illustration due yesterday afternoon. Then I passed out. Still recovering but on two two other jobs due ASAP, having just finished up a bunch of jobs in the last three weeks since getting back from vacation. Here’s what I’ve done since Feb 22th:

• NCS Reuben Weekend Illustration- See here
• 6 page MAD TV parody for #509- Another fun one of another popular show
• Illustration for the Food Network- Unknown if I can ever share this, it was for some in-house project
• Workplace Poster illustration- My usual assignment
• Sculpture turnaround design- For promo item for “I Want Your Money” film
• Magazine cover for Utne Reader- On news stands in April, will share when appropriate

Here’s what I’ve still got on the board right now:

• Jeff Dunham illustrations- Pencil revisions on two images today and finishing one final tonight
• Bobble Rep caricatures- A few of the 105 heads of new congress members for the iPhone app, due this week
• Workplace poster- Yep, already have my new assignment there.

I need another vacation.

Here’s some of the images from the above completed jobs I can share:

Workplace Poster Illustration- Click for a closer look…

Kinda busy right now… here’s a couple of recent jobs:

Penthouse spot illustration for Dave Navarro column:

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Workplace poster illustration- pencils, inks and final:

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Kind of on the quiet side for a change…

• Illustration for Sports Illustrated for Kids- A two page feature with assorted athlete caricatures. SI for Kids is one of the publications I’ve always wanted to do work for, so this is exciting.
• 100 plus new caricatures for the “Bobble Rep” app- The updated app with the 112th congress should be available sometime in Feb… unless Apple bans it of course.
• Marlin Workplace poster- My usual monthly assignment
• Jeff Dunham Project- I have some final art to wrap up on this

That’s pretty much it, other than some overdue personal work for a few people. The good news is that the light workload has allowed me to (finally) finish the next “How to Draw Caricatures” tutorial on drawing mouths, which I will post on Thursday… so don’t forget to come back and check that out.

The MAD show on Cartoon Network is still in reruns but as I’ve done some work on a few new segments there will be new shows on soon. In the meantime, I see the CN website has a series of parody posters for the various shows/movies they’ve lampooned available for download, including a bunch based on my artwork:

You can find the full set of high resolution posters for download here.

The Holidays through me for a loop, so I am very busy playing catch up on several projects right now:

• Cover illustration for Reason Magazine
• finishing 6 page TV show parody for MAD
• Over 100 new congressional faces for the “Bobble Rep” app
• finishes of illustrations for comedian/entertainer who can’t be named
• January Marlin poster illustration

Speaking of Marlin workplace posters, here is last month’s illustration (click any image for a closer look)-

Final artwork

Pencil rough

Finished inks

Penthouse Magazine assigned me a series of illustrations to use as a “header” (pun not intended) for a new monthly feature column by musician/celebrity Dave Navarro. These spot illustrations will accompany Dave’s articles in each issue. The one above is in the latest issue, and I have two more “in the can” as they say in the biz for future issues.