This message is to the small base of readers that still read my blog regularly (hi Mom and Dad!). Yes, I am still alive. Yes, I am buried under enormous piles of work and have been neglecting my poor poor blog.
I'll start you guys off light. I feel that since I haven't blogged anything in a really long time, I need to ease everyone back in....little by little. Drawings for Outdoor Life. These are three different stories submitted by readers of the magazine, generally life and death struggles, outdoors. Anyways, this was really fun and felt like a departure for me since I'm quickly becoming known as the tiny people drawer.
Sketches, some rejected, some chosen. This was particularly hard for me because of the amount of drama and action that was needed to go with the stories. This first log illustration was a challenge because of the specifics the writer included in his short story. From the way he lifted the log to free himself in the rapids to the thickness of the log itself. I tried to chicken out and draw the scene in the airplane (shown in the sketch below) but thankfully, the art director wouldn't let me do it.
This one about being stuck on a ledge, above roaring rapids. Fairly self explanatory.
Last one was my favorite. Two hunters accidentally stumbling upon an enormous grizzly. I took a few liberties with this one.
On a side note, I'm happy to post links to my awesome new studiomates. At the Pencil Factory in Brooklyn. Huzzah!
*Also, check out the portoflio section of this site for some new work I haven't gotten around to talking about. Namely new pieces for the fantastic magazine, Beautiful/ Decay. And finally a long overdue, "Hollah" to all nice students I met both in RISD and at SooJin's class at SVA.
