Entrepreneur Magazine Illo
Monday, March 19, 2007
This is for an article about being innovative and taking it to the next level. I couldn't decide which color 
scheme was better. I'm pretty happy with this one.
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Motion Graphics and Animation Screening party!
Sunday, March 18, 2007
That little motion graphics/animation thing i worked on with the guys from comedy central is going to be shown at the "Smile Faucet" screening party next thursday. Every 4 months or so Smile Faucet gives out a theme and any motiongraphics/animators/etc... can make a short 30,60, or 90 seconds clip based on the theme. Theres gonna be a bunch of other teams of peoples' clips being shown.
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folio weekly final cover
Thursday, March 15, 2007
this is the cover that folio weekly printed this week.
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slate.com illo
this is for an article about this guy who was in prison and wrote a book on slang. One of the slang terms in prison if someone is protesting and refuses to take showers is that he is going "viking". So thats that. I wish it wasnt due over night because this one could have been so awesome. How often do you get to do a viking illustration? probably never again in my life.
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quick painting
Monday, March 12, 2007
I have been sketching these geometric animals on the train for the past two weeks and plan on painting some of them. this was a quick experiment to see if it would be a cool worthwhile project, so i think it looks like it would be cool if i spent more than 10 mintues on it and more than just left over paint on the pallete. only thing is these don't really look like my style so im working on a way to incorporate that
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Scratch magazine illustration
Friday, March 09, 2007
This is a spot illo for scratch magazine (a hip hop mag published by XXL) it's for a joke article because ultra popular producer timbaland has lost so much weight they are wondering what if Timbaland and 80's fitness guru Richard Simmons did a fitness album collaboration to help others lose weight?
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Cleveland magazine 2/3 page illo
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
This article was about 4 people who had really bad salaries in state positions and now have really good salaries working in the private sector so the art directors idea was they're springing/jumping to higher salary levels.
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Chico news and review cover again
Friday, March 02, 2007
the cover for next weeks chico news and review. so many little revisions! its about this school board member that is cocky and shrewd and duped the board into getting rid of people he didn't like. the book on the table is the prince by machiavelli, one of the first books about manipulating people, thats why he's in royal italian machiavelli- like clothing also.
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Art show, theme: protest signs
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Me and Diana both have 1 piece each in an art show called "everybody! Make some Noise"with a protest sign theme. It's gonna be at the white room in williamsburg brooklyn. the pieces all had to be around 30"x 40" inches so it's pretty huge. Each piece will be mounted on a stick just like a real protest sign! there are 25 designers, illustrators, painters, artists, weirdos, etc... in the show and theres gonna be live punk band performances and who know's what else. down side is it's $7 but come out if you can make it.
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Cover for Folio Weekly
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
This is the cover for next weeks folio weekly. its for an article about noise pollution. They wanted it to look pretty much like the butthole surfer's electrecladyland album cover with the bloody pencil coming out of the guys ear, same composition and everything they wanted! I have drawn myself and taylor so many times that everyone i draw either looks like him or me. I had good reference of some guy i found online but ended up drawing this creature that looks like me and thaler morphed together. Gross huh?
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Riverfront Times calander half page illo
This is for the river front times calender page of events for the week. The art director said the most exciting thing happening that week was a microbrewery was having a "micro fiction" contest so they wanted some kind of micro authors concept. I had to go way out of my comfort bubble for this one and the results are a little soggy i have to say.
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We're Having a Party This saturday!!!!!!!!!
Friday, February 23, 2007
Hey yall me and my old roomate Thaler are having a combo feburary birthday bash Saturday the 24th at Happy Ending Lounge on 302 broome st. btwn eldridge and forcyth at 10:00 til who knows when, it always runs very late. It's gonna a crazy fun time as usual. Any and all are invited! It is going to be equivalent to one of or "Viva La Everything" parties so come on out and shake it loose! Click on the image for a larger view
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40's and 50's illustration goldmine!!!!
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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