40's and 50's illustration goldmine!!!!
Friday, February 23, 2007
I recently have been getting into 40's and 50's animation and art and have been looking at guys like jim flora, mary blair(disney), and recently saw dumbo and alice in wonderland. I stumbled upon this guys blog and flickr account to find that he worked as an inhouse story board artist at an ad agency and met an older guy that had amassed a huge collection of newspaper and magazine clippings of classic illustration. When he passed away his sister let this guy keep all the illustration files. He has scanned a huge chunk of them at hi res and keeps scanning new ones daily. There are ton's of great guys like Jim Flora, Al Parker, JC Leyendecker, Bob Mcginnis and tons more
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leifpeng/
on the flickr account you can click the illustraion, then click on the all sizes magnifying glass icon and click on original size for the hi res version!
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Jim Flora Books!
I just got both Jim Flora books in the mail today. the 2nd book just came out but the first one of was out of print or something and i had ordered it from amazon 6 months ago and the order kept getting pushed back but i recieved both books today by some miracle! They are awesome and I really envy Jim Flora's style. If you can only buy one of these try to get your hands on the first book (black cover), it has all his record album covers in it. The second book has a lot of his editorial work in it. This is the original! guy that influenced guys like Tim Biskup, Shag.
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Slate.com illo
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
This was for an article about former mayor rudy guliani. I guess they say that he was a better leader than manager and was kind of fascist, but this one sentence is all i had to go with. I made some sketches that were "too fascist" with fists pumped in the air so they wanted to calmed down. Also it doesnt really look like guliani, which really really irks me because like all of slate's illustrations it had to be done in just a few hrs so i didnt have time to try to nail it on a second try. Curses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh yea it's also hard cuz he looks so much like rumsfeld.
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Jazz Times Full page Illo
This is for the jazztimes jazz and blues festival guide 2007. pretty straightforward. they wanted jazz and wanted to incorporate a tent and crowd sort of thing. i dont know if i pulled off the tent or not but it made an ok divider at least. I spent a whole day messing around with different color schemes seriously spasming and pulling my hair out finally to end up going with the color scheme i did in 5 minutes the day before. How many times does spontinaety do the trick instead of cold calculated time consuming labor? I'm never gonna learn.
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Cleveland Scene Cover
this was about black on black crime in the cleveland area construction world where black contractors are used just as fronts to get around affirmative action laws so that white owned firms can work. So the bossman black contractor gets rich by doing nothing but being a front and his crew gets shafted with no work. I made this yellow version but the wanted to go with the grey one in the end
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Valentines Day Card
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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