January 21st, 2016 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
This was supposed to be the cover of a book about internet gambling. I did the art in December of 2000, and as far as I know it was never used. I’m not sure the author ever found a publisher for the book at all. A lot of book deals go down like that. An author wants to make a “pitch” to various publishers either with the concept and outline or a finished manuscript, and feels like the need a visual to go along with the pitch. I never work on spec, so I expect to be paid for the art whether the book sees… READ MORE
January 14th, 2016 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
This spot illustration is from the April 1998 issue of Golden State Warriors Magazine. It was for a kids page section and depicts then rookie player Adonal Foyle. This is a very early example of my fledgling digital illustration style. READ MORE
December 3rd, 2015 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Hoo boy, this is humbling. I came across this moldie oldie going through some of my mom’s old storage boxes. This was a tri-fold promo brochure I did as a project back in my last year of college, circa 1989. I updated it with my new address after my new bride The Lovely Anna and I moved to the Atlanta Georgia area to run a theme park caricature operation for Fasen Arts that summer… thus the Austell GA address. Here’s the back: I remember this as being the first piece of art I ever inked with real ink, as opposed to markers or pens. I… READ MORE
October 22nd, 2015 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Back in the late 1990’s/early 2000’s I did several illustrations for a radio syndicate called U.S. Radio Stations used in ads for their stations and packages. Some were for certain themed stations and some for specific hosts and their shows. Here are a few: READ MORE
September 10th, 2015 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
From the mid to late 90’s I did a fair amount of work for a publishing company out in the San Fransisco area that produced magazines for the local pro sports teams, including the San Fransisco Giants baseball team. I did quite a few spot illustrations to accompany short articles. Here’s a few done in traditional media from 1995 to 1999 or so. There are a few caricatures but mostly just generic ballplayers. I believe that’s Mike Piazza and Barry Bonds first and third from the left… READ MORE
August 6th, 2015 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
This piece was done in 1995 for Twin Cities Business Monthly, and accompanied a story about insurance fraud. The client wanted a 50’s comic book feel to it, so I naturally went with an E.C. look…especially given the title they wanted for the comic. This was done using the old “film pos/acetate overlay” technique that was used for coloring comic books for decades before the digital revolution. It involved taking the inks to a production house that put it on a stat camera and produced two prints of it on clear acetate. One was just the linework on the clear sheet, but adding registration marks… READ MORE
June 18th, 2015 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
Here’s an old caricature of Bill Cosby, updated for 2015. READ MORE
March 12th, 2015 | Posted in Illustration Throwback Thursday
The cover of Broadcasting and Cable magazine, Aug 1999. Airbrush and watercolor for a cover story on new syndicated talk shows. Depicted left to right: Martin Short, Richard Simmons, Tia Carrere, Louie Anderson, ??? and Queen Latifah. I have no clue who the blonde lady is with the microphone raised up in the center. She must have debuted a syndicated TV talk show in 1999, but as I have long lost the actual magazine (just have the cover tear sheet), I can’t remember who she was. This was sixteen years ago… that’s a lot of ink, paint, and scotch under the bridge. UPDATE: Two commenters… READ MORE
