↑ Hulk vs. Superman
Art direction: Linda Pouder.
Time Magazine: The Economy Goes Pop!
↑ Art director April Bell commissioned this Roy Lichtenstein-inspired feature for Time magazine.
↑ The housing market comes back from the dead. ↓
↑ Early sketch.
"The Birth of the Filet-O-Fish" and Other Magazine Comics...
↑ "The Birth of the Filet-O-Fish." Script: Mental Floss Magazine. Lent, 2013.
↑ Unused red version. Art direction: Winslow Taft.
↑ a 2011 feature in Myself Magazine. Art Direction: Caroline Caesar.
↑ Men's health, 2011. Art Direction: Mike Smith ↓
Some Prefer Nettles
I had the honor of creating the cover art for a new English edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's 1929 classic, Some Prefer Nettles.
↑ This edition is part of Random House's new Modern Japanese Classics series. The entire line shares the same title treatment designed by John Gall.
↑ Bunraku, Japanese puppet theater, is central to the novel's theme.
↑ Unused sketches. ↓
Art direction: John Gall
A Million First Dates
↑ Atlantic Monthly feature on online dating.
↑ The Opener
↑ Ink drawing detail.
↑ Finished spot illustrations. ↓
↑ Unused digital sketch of a fly fishing date described in the article.
Art Direction: Darhil Crooks
The Sport of Politics
Feature illustrations for ESPN Magazine...
↑ Our newly reelected left-handed president.
↑ I'll probably never draw this guy again. ESPN Magazine.
Art Direction: Jason Lancaster
Elon Musk, Man Of Tomorrow!
Feature Illustration for Bloomberg Businessweek.
The article included 3 small spots imagining some of Musk's future innovations. I was thinking a lot about Wally Wood as I worked on these.
An early sketch.
Art direction: Robert Vargas
Martin Amis at the Republican National Convention
A feature by British novelist Martin Amis for Newsweek. I had less than a 48-hour deadline for this one: a day for sketches and a day for the final.
Art Direction: Vanessa Saba
"The Proxy Marriage"
I recently had the pleasure of working on an illustration to accompany a lovely short fiction by Maile Meloy in the New Yorker.
The editor, Chris Curry, sent me the layout above and suggested a dyptic with two separate scenes.
I typically sketch until I have two or three decent concepts or until the sun is rising and I can't keep my eyes open. The three sketches above begun as very loose pencil sketches which I scanned and further developed in photoshop with a wacom tablet. After submitting these concepts, Chris suggested trying an eight-panel composition...
Sketch approved! One minor tweak to the first panel...
I usually do a quick digital color study before I jump into the final.
At this point, I turn the black lines of my color sketch faint yellow and print out the sketch on a tabloid sized piece of bristol board. The yellow ink, barley visible in the photo above, serves as my "pencils." I still use traditional media for inking: real brushes, nibs, and India ink. As you can see above, a fair amount of editing takes place during this stage as well.
Next, the color gets added back in digitally, and, presto.
Print Magazine
Illustration for a Print article about graphic designers who self-publish. Special thanks to Stephen Savage whose incisive metaphorical illustrations inspired this one (I draw the comparison at my own peril!).
Art Direction: Ben King
Time Magazine
Feature illustration based on the classic "Charles Atlas" comic book ad.
Art Direction: Chrissy Dunleavy