New Observer Piece....MOAR

Well, I've been a busy boy. Just did a quick one day turn around for the NYObserver again...this time concerning the exploits of one of their contributing writers. Nate Freeman was arrested when he entered the subway through those all-too-easy emergency exits. He had to spend the night in holding, and ended up having a fun time. Here's the link to the story in full: http://www.observer.com/2012/01/the-wee-hours-a-reporter-goes-from-soft-openings-to-hard-time/

and here's the art:

CSO Magazine

Just got a new assignment for a group of 4 spots for CSO Magazine. The article chronicles a number of famous liars throughout history, and will be featured in the Feb 2012 issue. Here are the finals:

Charles Ponzi


Victor Lustig


Bernie Madoff


The Devil

New Year, new Capital Business illustration.

Recently received a ring from the wonderful AD over at Washington Post's Capital Business section, for a really quick turnaround of a cover. This time the story was really encompassing a few different stories, so the focus had to fit with all of them. It mainly detailed the business of working out, yoga supplies, and new years resolutions in general, so it was a lot of fun rolling all of those into one.

Of course, the first thing you'll probably say if you know me personally is "wait---why did you make the character look almost EXACTLY like you?" The answer is, yes--it kind of looks like me, no--I didn't mean for that to happen.

So here is the final piece:


And here is the layout for print:


You can also view it online here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/capital_business

New Observer Piece

Just recently got another request from the NYObserver to do a rush job to accompany more of a narrative, than an article. It was a nice change of pace--and actually I was pleasantly surprised that NYO published articles like this, as I really enjoy illustrating more narrative work. This one was about the exploits of one of their Staff Writers, and his discovery that his trainer was an "ex and future con."



and here's the link to the article so you can read it!

http://www.observer.com/2011/11/body-by-rikers-getting-to-know-my-trainer-the-ex-and-future-con/

UPDATES!

So...I know it's been awhile since my last post, but I've been very indisposed for the last month working on a very detailed, large project for a client; more on that later....

But for now, I'd like to introduce you to my new baby.


And for size reference, here's another pic of it next to my 17" MBP:


Yes, that's a 21" Wacom Cintiq 21UX.

It's been a very intense new addition to my workstation, and as you might imagine, very intimidating. However, I decided to finally use one of my days off to really start fooling around and get my hands dirty. This is the result:



It is a portrait of Martin Starr in his role as Roman in Stars' short lived drama "Party Down." You probably remember Martin mainly from "Freaks and Geeks," but I've been on a major Party Down binge recently, and he's got such great character to him.

Stay tuned for more tablet madness!

New York Observer

Just finished a rush job for The Observer yesterday, regarding John Gutfreund and the 1%. It was a challenge to try some new palette choices, but the AD and I really like how it turned out.

New York Observer

Got an email to do another inside illustration for the Observer, this time about Paul Ceglia. For those of you who don't know him, Ceglia is a convicted drug con (among other things) and claims to be one of the founding benefactors of Facebook. He apparently has an email from 2003 between himself and facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, in which they discuss how Ceglia asked for too much ownership of the company, and Zuckerberg could only let him own 50%.

Below, I wanted to include the initial sketch with my original idea in addition to how it turned out in the end.