Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Illustration by Stephanie!

Life's a Beach..., (ink, acrylic on illustration board, 11X14). I've included this piece on the blog to show that I'm not the only person in my family who draws professionally. My wife, Stephanie, is an artist and art educator, and this piece shows she is a top-notch caricaturist as well. The subject is a retiring teacher who likes cats and the beach. I thought Steph did a great job on the cats, (especially the black one), and her color choices were perfect for this beach scene.

Friday, April 25, 2008

New Caricature Map

Black River Country, (ink on illustration board, 27X35). This is another one of my caricature maps. This one is for Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Whenever I receive the printed copies of the maps, the color never quite looks right, so I've started taking photos of the original artwork. I found out that when the printer receives the artwork, they cut it up into pieces and scan each one. So all of my original maps are destroyed in the process. I guess they just throw the pieces away. I always put my wife and dog and I in every map. In this one we're canoe-ing in the Black River

Two More Commissioned Illustrations


Dancing With Buzz, (ink on paper, 16X20). This piece was commissioned by Georgia Tech for a retiree gift. This fellow is an exceptional ballroom dancer, a chemist, loves to cook, and makes a mean puttanesca sauce. I think I got everything in there. Boating Couple, (ink on paper, 16X20) is another engagement/wedding illustration. The interesting thing about these two pieces is that I was working the Texas State Fair in Dallas when these jobs came in. I would work 10AM-10PM at the fair, drive back to where I was staying, work from 11PM-2AM on these projects, and then get up at 6AM and do the 10AM-10PM again at the Fair. So these were both "middle of the night" pieces.

Saturday, April 05, 2008

Team Tatsumi Illustration


Team Tatsumi, (16X20, ink on illustration board). This piece was commissioned by Tatsumi Intermodal (USA), Inc. in Gainesville, GA. It's a retiree gift for the fellow in the middle. They checked out the blog and liked what I did with the Marriott project, so this one ended up fairly similar to that one. Once again, the client submitted awesome close up photo reference of everybody, so it made my job alot easier.

Friday, April 04, 2008

Event Photos!




The photos from the following posts are all from an event I worked at Savannah State in March. It was great weather and I was outside. The students were awesome and many thanks is due to them for allowing me to snap their pictures and caricature their faces.

More Photos from Savannah State University






Even More Photos from Savannah State University