2 new illossssss
Monday, December 08, 2008
this is the cover for the business section of American Medical News. It's about doctors that are keen on adopting new technology and like spreading the word and good vibes to others.
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City Pages
Friday, November 14, 2008
this was for the minnisota city pages A-list weekly calendar. this one is about a green gifts fair for the holidays where the merchandise is all earth friendly and cuts down on carbon footprints and all that jazz. I thought of giving and green and gifts and thought of that old shel silverstein story "the giving tree" and used that as inspiration. you can see here that his is full of life and engergetic linework and mine is stale and too polished. Next to his mine looked like hot garbage. I am sorry Shel.
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My First chinese job
Thursday, November 13, 2008
This was for Timeout Beijing Chinese edition. the english and chinese editions are 2 separate offices and have totally different content. it was great working with the editor and art director that didn't speak any english. nice guys. the art director added some snow, shadows, and other modifications after i submitted the final artwork but i think its ok because it looks ok. I was going to do the cover as well but what frequently happens is that illustration gets canned and they are forced to use another crap photo by their marketing team.
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Boy's Life Magazine
Monday, November 10, 2008
I got a great assignment doing 3 illustrations for boys life magazine (the magazine of the boyscouts) this summer. They are way ahead of schedule because this is finally coming out this month. it was a fiction story about a boy's 3 wishes. it is a moral tale of laziness and taking shortcuts resulting in a hard learned lesson.
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Another Moto ad
Friday, October 17, 2008
another mock ad for the Motorola ROKR phone
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Runner's World Spot
Monday, October 06, 2008
I finally got to do runner's world. Just a spot though. it is for an article about beating the post race blues. It's in the October issue
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Motorola Ad Sample
Saturday, October 04, 2008
I made this motorola advertising sample for my portfolio. actually i was inspired by this wish tree that i saw in shanghai. you write your wishes on these cards and hang them on the tree. I also have been inspired by what i've seen in beijing so i wanted to combine them somehow. I subbed the phone in for one of the wish cards for my personal work. this took quite some time. all of those ornaments are on their own separate layer.
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Drawing party drawings
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
i had a drawing party and these are the best ones of mine.
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Notre Dame Magazine
I did 4 watercolor/sketchbook style illustrations for notre dame magazine a while back. Here are 2 of them. the art director requested this style of mine and i was happy to do it. now and then art directors say they really love the stuff in my sketchbook section but this is the first time i've actually been able to do this style for a job.
one of the shorts was about JFK
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Mock Tiger Beer Ad
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
I did this as an advertising sample. used some of the chinese influences i've seen in Beijing. such as the silk goldfish i bought and the yellow tiger toy.
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C. Coles Phillips Homage
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
my homage to c. coles phillips, an old school illustrator who made famous the "fade-away girl". My goal is to one day own a real c. coles phillips painting.
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Kim Jong Il
this was sitting around for at least over a year. i finally got the chance to finish it. i read somewhere recently that Kim Jong Il is not in good health. I also read there are rumors that he has been dead for 5 years.
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Westchester Magazine
Monday, September 08, 2008
an article about buying houses where crimes, notably violent crimes occured in the past.
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Strategic Finance Magazine
for strategic finance magazine. it was a dense article filled with industry words that i could not comprehend. luckily the art director felt my pain and realized this. it was about employees having unauthorized access to data. more or less.
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Cleveland magazine
this was an article about republicans and democrats in cleveland fighting over the voting system and i guess one side to a stance that the other side usually takes and vice versa.
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Jazz Times
Monday, August 25, 2008
this was for jazz times magazine. it was for an article about how to prepare an admissions application (for jazz schools) and how not to make the admissions guys toss their audition cds out the window.
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Wall St. Journal
This was for Saturday's wall st. journal. it was for an article about two guys getting big bucks plugging products. Jerry Seinfeld for Microsoft and Micheal Phelps for Kellogg's.
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Ninjas and Tigers
This is a self promo piece. i intended it to be for the young readers book cover market. I have been tossing these characters around for a while and i finally got a chance to finish this.
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Sketches from China
Thursday, August 14, 2008
It's been a long while since I added any posts to my illustration blog because I've just been having too much fun here in Beijing. Here are some sketches from the other side of the world.
bob on our airchina flight to china. we sat on the runway sweating for over an hour with no air conditioning. This would just be a primer for the amount of sweating we would be doing all month in china.
girl DJ at the Black Sun Bar
Bob fiddling with his ipod mini
old chinese woman sitting by lake houhai
illustration/graphic design buddy QQ. also some old guy at a restaurant.
dumb looking japanese guy in the airport on our way to japan.
Carrey/Carrie...spelled differently than normal. She has a gallery in the 798 gallery district in Beijing
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Paper I bought in Japan
Sunday, August 03, 2008
More Paper I got in Japan. also detail shots of the large pieces i got. Inspiration a plenty here. The detail shots have patterns that are all taken from Kimonos from some era in the old days.
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