I was contacted yesterday by Juliet Litman at Grantland/McSweeney's to do a really quick turnaround illustration for this morning's front page of Grantland.com. The story is about french basketball player Evan Fournier and the declining number of Europeans in the NBA today.
Below are the rough sketches submitted before deciding on the final concept.
Flex Magazine
Home On The Range/McSweeney's Blog
The Hollywood Reporter
David Lynch/One Damn Fine Cup of Coffee Zine
The Spectator - Cyber Crime
Maison Neuve Magazine
Posters
A while back I was contacted to do another illustration for Grantland/McSweeney's. This time it was for a piece about the AFC/NFC championship games. It consisted of realtime emailing during the games between various writers for the site. There were a lot of components to illustrate but in the sketches I zeroed in a few. After taking one of the sketches to final they decided they wanted just Steven Tyler so I drew a bigger Stevie. After all this, unfortunately the piece was killed. These things happen sometimes and I at least now I have a grotesque Steven Tyler illustration to show you fine folks :)
This is as fun as it gets! Michael Bloomberg listed his top 10 reasons why films should shoot in NYC and I was lucky enough to get asked to illustrate the piece for The Hollywood Reporter. Below are my sketches too. I'm extremely happy that the Taxi Driver sketch was selected. Thanks Shanti for such an amazingly fun assignment!
I illustrated this portrait for Alexa Potter for her new blog dedicated to her great grandmother's cookbook Home On the Range. The book has recently been published by McSweeney's and presented by her cousin Elizabeth Gilbert(Eat Pray Love) Here's a link to the site containing my portrait of her great grandmother Margaret Potter(Gima)
Here's another fun assignment I just illustrated for art director Peter Curry at The Hollywood Reporter. It's of Reed Hastings, founder of Netflix. Below are all of the sketches I drew before we decided on the final concept and composition.
I recently illustrated this piece for Brant Louck at Flex Magazine. The article for the March issue is about occlusion training which involves tying bands around muscles to deprive them of blood flow while weight training. It's always fun working with Brant because he pushes me to take everything from muscles to expressions a step further.
Singer Zeb Malik from POPO for Philadelphia Weekly. I was pretty sick when I drew this but focusing on all this hair was a good distraction from feeling like death. Also notice the nod to Kurt Cobain and Daniel Johnston...not very subtle but worth mentioning.