↑ The New York Times Sunday Book Review "Summer Fiction" edition's cover story: a review of Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen.
↑ Unused Sketch. Snowy New England features prominently in novel. After my first set of sketches was received, I was informed that this was the Summer Fiction edition and asked to remove the snow and add the headline.
Art Direction: Joele Cuyler
↑ Cover of the New York Times Book review feature a scene from Richard Price's novel, "the Whites."
↑ The cover layout.
↑ Unused sketches. ↓
↑ The title, The Whites "alludes to the cases that haunt detectives through careers and post-careers. The white whales. The ones that got away."
Art Direction: Nicholas Blechman.
↑ Cover to The New York Times Book Review. Without access to the narrative details of the unreleased novel, I aimed for a broad, allegorical approach.
↑ Spot illustration: detective Cormoran Strike ↓
↑ Unused sketch: J.K. Rowling in disguise.
↑ Another unused sketch.
Art direction: Nicholas Blechman, Catherine Gilmore-Barnes
↑ Philip Roth and Norman Mailer for the New York Times Sunday Book Review. ↓
↑ Unused sketch with an early headline which was ultimately scrapped.
↑ Columnists for the New York Times Sunday Book Review's new weekly series, "Bookends."↓
Art Direction: Nicholas Blechman
↑ Henry David Thoreau and his small cabin at Walden Pond.
↑ Two separate articles reviewing books on climate change. Art Director Nicholas Blechman proposed two illustrations that combine to suggest a single narrative.
↑ Again, neighboring articles share a diptych illustration.
A recent commission from the New York Times. I always really enjoy tackling classic illustration subjects, especially the action-adventure variety. Below is another pirate-themed piece for the Sunday Book Review.
Art Direction: Nicholas Blechman
