New Years Eve - a new website and blog is born.
This blog will not be updated anymore. Thank you everyone who's been following this blog! With the new redesign, I've decided to host the blog on my own server rather than Blogger. The posts will remain here unless I am able to properly transfer everything over.
Click on over to the new blog!
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Goodbye Internets
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Phoenix New Times Cover
Published today in Phoenix is my cover for the Phoenix New Times.
This was the first time working with the paper/magazine. It's quite an honor for them to choose me right out of the bag to do a cover for them and working with Peter Storch, the Art Director was easy and wonderful.
Below is a few sketch ideas I was thinking about and there's at least 10 more that I didn't add here. I didn't show the art director all of them - only about eight. I was just sort of free forming the ideas I had that I thought would conceptually work but also look pretty powerful on a cover of a magazine. Eventually, I had to chose which one's I thought were the strongest.




The images below is what I initially sent in and they went with the maze image. Before I went to final, I did three different versions of the maze piece to see which one would look better for the cover. Peter and I decided that the second one is the best version to use.
Below that is the mock up with my sketch in place.


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Monday, December 5, 2011
Post It Show 7 at Giant Robot
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Society of Illustrators 54 Acceptance!

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Sketchbook Post #24
I hope everyone is doing well and see you out there in the world!

"Feet" - I am sure anyone with a sketchbook has drawn something like this in their books. I probably have about 20 variations of this view.

'The Loop" - This is actually a quote from a record producer I heard and I loved it. When I thought about it, I think it is pretty much a good description of doing an illustration job.
"Dark Matter" - I was listening to NPR yesterday and was listening to the description of what Dark Matter is, how it functions (as they know it) and how to relate it to our existence. Pretty cool stuff.
"Choke" - Hanging out with Rick Berry every now and again, we do some live drawing sessions and this model decided to choke herself as a pose. I don't know what else to say.
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
Lectures in Chicago and New Hampshire
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Saturday, October 15, 2011
Art Tails Vol. 1-3
Art Tails is an iPhone art-book app you can download which has loads of artists, including myself to help support Japan after their horrible natural disasters. It is a great project and honored that I am part of it.
You can buy the app here.
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Friday, September 9, 2011
Bad Things Happen To Good Trees
Ro2 Art Uptown
3699 McKinney Avenue
Dallas, TX 75204
September 4-23, 2011
Reception: Thursday, September 8, 2011 6 - 10pm
Inquiries: Jordan Roth - 214-803-9575
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Monday, July 11, 2011
Inspiration

Updated the Inspiration 2011 (Under BIO) of my site today with some views of life I've seen the last couple of months. Enjoy!
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Saturday, July 2, 2011
AEP Distinguished Achievement Award

My 'The Only One' illustration was selected to be given the AEP Distinguished Achievement Award for Periodical Illustration in the Adult Category.
This is pretty wonderful because extremely talented companies compete for the Association of Educational Publishers Distinguished Awards (National Geographic for Kids, Scholastic, Nickelodeon Magazine, etc.) I am very honored to be given this nod. Also, a big thank you to the folks at Teaching Tolerance Magazine who have been entering the work I do for them in various competitions.
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