Monday, August 31, 2009

Leaper

Notebook #10 is out!



Notebook #10 

That's right, it's out, and my work is both on the front and back cover, and inside, amongst Edmonton's finest visual art, poetry and short stories.  Show Steven Teeuwsen and the local art community some support by picking up a copy at any of Edmonton's finer magazine vendors.
Here's a link to the Notebook site, but there isn't much there to ogle at. You gotta pick up a copy for that.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Doodling

I was just letting my pencil wander. This is what came out.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Vue cover!

Here's my Vue cover. It's for a story by Fawnda Mithrush, featured in this weeks Vue, their annual Fringe issue.

So far everything has been working out, note for note, according to my evil master plan. It's always been in the back of my mind. If I can get the cover of Vue Weekly, then it's official: my career as an illustrator has begun. Special thanks to Pete, Vue's art director, for giving me the opportunity, and for doing a beautiful job on the headers. He made it look way better than I thought it could.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

I Accidentally the whole Cover!

The Media gatekeepers over at FFWD were brazen enough to hire a yahoo such as myself to do the illustration for the cover, and the cover story. Titled "Mass Exodus", it was written by Julia Bevin and Anthea Black, the article discusses what is needed to build the Calgary Arts community, and the revolving door of artists who leave and return to Calgary once or more throughout their careers. Straight off the bat, I only had a rough description of the subject. I was asked to emphasize the themes of building, community, and people leaving. So I got to work Sketching, and sent them this:


You know, making it, I was thinking: Fuck yeah, they're building a giant red cow, but that guy is stealing bricks as he exodizes off to some other city. This is going to be the most awesome illustration ever! But no, the idea was rejected. The cow was too cheesy, the image was too busy, and it didn't quite fit with the story. In hindsight, they were right, and I was wrong. So I sent them a bunch more sketches, and they ultimatelysettled on this one:
So I cleaned it up a bit, and gave them the Rough draft:
They seemed happy with it, so I got busy with the Ball point pen, on a sheet of 11x17 bond paper, and whipped out this:
All coloured up, it came out like this. Fiddling with the colours ends up taking alot longer than you think it should.

I erased some of the bushes, lassooed the cloud and slid it over, and got this:
This is what it looks like, all said nd done, on newstands throughout Calgary:
And as an added bonus I threw in a drawing for the inside (beats me as to whether they ran it or not, I can't find it at the FFWD website):