Freelancing
November 13th, 2012 | Posted in Freelancing
. . . is that caricature illustrators like me no longer enjoy the increase in work we get drawing the various candidates amid the endless media coverage. I did the above quick spot for an internal promotion for a publicity company. In election years I do more high profile things like magazine covers and get jobs from publications and clients that ordinarily don’t use caricature illustration than in a non-election year. I believe I did one magazine cover, multiple interior illustration including one for MAD, and several smaller projects like the one above thanks to it being an election year…and this election year was a… READ MORE
October 25th, 2012 | Posted in Freelancing
These books didn’t make it past the editorial department of their prospective publishers . . . the authors names have been blocked out to protect the guilty: The above one is a little over the top. READ MORE
October 11th, 2012 | Posted in Freelancing
Here are a few more of my illustrations for The Bro Code for Parents book, now available on Amazon and in your local bookstore. They are all spoofs of well-known children’s books, songs, nursery rhymes and activities like the paper dolls… all as re-envisioned by “How I Met Your Mother”‘s Barney Stinson: Clicky to embiggen… Clicky to embiggen… Clicky to embiggen… You can see more of them from my post last week. Like I said in that post, this was an interesting project as I had to mimic either the style of art or the “look” of certain things to make the parody effective. Only… READ MORE
October 8th, 2012 | Posted in Freelancing
Clicky to Embiggen… The October issue of Sports illustrated Kids has a tw0 page illustration of mine in it (above), depicting various athletes in Halloween costumes they might wear. The athletes: Jeremy Lin, Mark Sanchez, Tim Tebow, Michael Phelps, Anthony Davis, and Bryce Harper. Here’s the initial pencil rough (obviously text is just for layout placement): Clicky to Embiggen… They decided it was too crowded so they took out Gabby Douglas (too bad, I liked that one best), and I had to do some moving around: Clicky to Embiggen… READ MORE
October 4th, 2012 | Posted in Freelancing
I received several emails and at least one comment asking about the process involved with going something like the Minnesota Twins team illustration above, so I thought I’d share a little about my approach to such a project . . . it is a little different than a typical crowd illustration. I’m a big proponent of doing all the drawing on a given illustration as one organic piece. In other words, I don’t like doing separate caricature study “heads” and then pasting them into a layout, trying to get them to work together. That always results in a “disconnect” for me, where the illustration as… READ MORE
October 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Freelancing
Some months back I eluded to a mysterious book project I was working on, which I could not reveal until it was actually published. Well, today is the official release date. It’s called The Bro Code for Parents, written by that awesome dude Barney Stinson, and some guy named Matt Kuhn, published by Simon and Schuster. For those who do not watch American TV, this is the latest in a series of books that stem from the sitcom “How I Met Your Mother”, the others being The Bro Code, The Playbook and Bro on the Go, none of which I illustrated. These books are ostensibly… READ MORE
October 1st, 2012 | Posted in Freelancing
Clicky to Embiggen… Back in the early-mid 2000’s I did an illustration of the entire Minnesota Twins baseball team roster each year, which was given away as a poster at the ballpark on the last home game of the season aka “Kid’s Appreciation Day”. I hadn’t done one since 2006, but this year the Twins hired me to do it again. The above is the result, given away at yesterday’s game. The ones I did in earlier years were ink and watercolor original paintings, which now hang in the Twin’s offices. This new one I did digitally. *EDIT– Due to popular request (and since no… READ MORE
September 18th, 2012 | Posted in Freelancing
A couple of weeks ago I posted a pencil sketch of this illustration, promising to post the final soon. Well, here it is: Clicky to Embiggen… Here are the inks: Clicky to Embiggen… I actually did the color on this piece while I was in Charlotte for the DNC, using my portable (sort of) Cintiq 12WX.¬¨‚Ć Far from my best work, but deadlines are deadlines. READ MORE
