Valentines Day Card
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
This was the valentines day card I made, pretty gruesome huh? So it's made up of a bunch of illustrations that i had previously done but it's the thought that counts right? I still had to put it all together!
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Slate.com illustration
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
This was for a valentines day special section that had some "sexually charged" poems so they wanted a shakespeare looking at a dirty magazine.
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getting there
Friday, February 09, 2007
No jobs this week so i've been slowly working on these sasquatch and yeti characters. I dont know if you can tell they are bigfoot and yet or if they are playing rock paper scissors or not becasause they're stupid and they always throw rock every time. their bodies are weirdly proportioned two so i cant put their other hands underneath their rock hand like some rock paper scissors players do so this is a tough one. bear with me this will get finished enventually.
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Big foot
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
I'm trying to work on sasquatch and yeti characters, I guess they would look identical accept for their colors. do you think it will work?
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Adoptive Families final layout
Friday, February 02, 2007
This is the final and layout the art director showed me for the Adoptive families illustration.
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Adoptive Families magazine
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Oh man this is for a full page illo in Adoptive Families magazine. its about how families can get along when everyone has a different temperment. I was really hoping that the art director would like the one of the family riding on their spirit animals, and he did! But! the editors did not! so tonight i have to go back to the drawing board. too bad that might have been the most funnest illustration i ever done did. I will update next week and you will see what they picked out. (oh yea this post is like my dirty laundry hanging on the line, as you can tell i am at the level of an 11 yr old artist at translating things in my head onto paper. Now you know!)
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Backbone magazine
Monday, January 22, 2007
This is a full page illustration for backbone magazine (Canadian). My first international job! Canadian money is worth less though but it still ok. the article is about Weblo, and one of those online virtual worlds where people can buy cities or countries or states or even landmarks like the CN Tower in Toronto pictured here. Tons of real world money is exchanging for virtual real estate. The concept was that normal people can stake their claim on virtual property like king kong and the empire state building. Then i thought it would look better with him beating his chest like originally planned. but now i dont know. oh well, who knows what they will pick.
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Sacramento New and Review Cover
This is the cover annnnnnd double page spread for the Sacramento News and review. It's about Joe Carnahan, a director that did "narc" and "smoking aces" that is coming out really soon.
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Slate.com again
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
----Update!------
Art director said that the editors wanted to take the writer totally out and just have the tv and hands. Too bad.
This is for a blog on the site that this guy is running about american idol the tv show. I was lucky that this one was an over nighter not same day turn around, but those are lurking around the corner!
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Smile Faucet Video magazine spot
Monday, January 15, 2007
this was a personal fun project for SmileFaucet. its a video magazine that gives out a theme every 6 months i think it is and motion graphics guys, sound designers, illustrators, etc... can create short videos based on that theme. They come up with some cool stuff. I worked with 3 motion graphics buddies and 1 sound design guy on our 30 second spot. Here is a look at my portion. I will post up the video clip after the "premiere night" of every teams videos. The theme this time around was "Air". our idea was doing a commercial for a ficticious oxygen drink. the bear represents smog and the sumo represents the oxygen drink, 03one. The guy screaming is Stubbz.
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Fanta Commercial Pitch
This was a Pitch for Fanta Soda (coca-cola). You know it's that orange soda! It was commisioned by the SuperFad agency. The concept was that this one kid would spread the word of Fanta and everything that Fanta came in contact with would change from black and white to color by the end of the commercials. I think there were going to be a couple 30 second spots and one 15 second spot. It was supposed to be a Fanta Re-branding so it would have been big if they liked our pitch.
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Entrepreneur magazine illo
Sunday, January 14, 2007
This was for an article about video blogging and using funny and wacky video clips to promote your business. I have a feeling they were not too keen on the fade away look so i think they might go with the version where his suit is totally visible. Too bad, i really wanted to start doing fade away illustrations again, strike 1 for jason
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Slate magazine illustration
This was for slate magazine, which is actually an online new magazine that publishes daily. So that means the craziest deadlines i've ever heard of. They said this time we're taking it easy on you but just so you know in the future we will need the sketch a few hrs after we call you and then a finish a few hrs after that. !!!!!!!!! This was about jobs that americans are starting not to do. if you feel like reading the article: http://www.slate.com/id/2157483/
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Cat Commision
Saturday, January 06, 2007
I was commissioned by my pal stubbz (www.stubbzilla.com) to create this cat illustration of his brothers cats for a wedding present.
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Illustration swag!
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Check out the swag I recieved in the mail for christmas from Jazz Times Magazine. I have done a bunch of illustrations for them over the past 7 months and they sent me these custom Jazz Times emblazoned Claves (latin preccusion instruments)! My first spoils of war of my freelance career! Thank you Jazz Times, my brother can't stand these things being clacked all day long.
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the Daily Bob
every year during the holidays i do my best to keep up a regiment of daily bobs. That is draw at least one sketch of my brother, Bob per day that i am in his company. Much to the annoyment of bob I have created a large number of bob sketches over the years, the best of which are showcased in the "book of b.o.b." in the sketchbook section of my website. Here are my book of bob sketches from this holiday season so far, luckily i will have another week with bob, so james, esther, diana, jack, and others, you all will have a shot at bob maybe friday night drink and draw? i took a break from drawing bob long enough to draw my cousin jared
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City Pages A-list illustration
This is going to be the A-list illustration for new year's week. it's about a this new years party somewhere in Minnesota where the theme is heaven and a little bit of hell. There are going to be ballet type dancers and partying and dancing and stuff.
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Sacramento News and Review Illo
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Spot illo for the sac-town news and review. The art director really wanted to hammer home this general james jones character and I agree. He has been quoted basically saying "WE WILL NOT LOSE!!" and i thought that would be a fitting pictoral of the general. They didnt know if it was gonna be in color or black and white, newspaper guys, go figure. I kinda like the grey better actually, lot of good 3 hrs of coloring did guy.
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Boston Pheonix spot illo
This is for an article about the passing of 2006 and the deaths that is brought, including lou rawls, jack palance, billy preston, don knotts, the american dollar, the american motor industry, augusto pinochette, GOP power, and the chance that bush might go down in history as the worst pres ever. You might be thinking hey none of thoese guys looks like the guy! Well wat do you expect for little money and shorty deadline when they want 10 figures?I did the best i could under the not so good circumstances. This is wat you get! Bam!
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Ed Soyka Revisited
Ed Soyka revisited is a chilling thought but here he is again! they wanted him with bigger grey hair and a red tie, so here he is in all his glory.
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