Though this was not made with Valentines Day in mind, it can still hold its own on this day of heartache. Over at Latitude 53–Edmonton’s premiere artist run centre du jour–you can buy a membership as a gift for a loved one and they will receive this lovely image in limited edition print form. Better still, you, the buyer, will receive the other image / half of the series in limited edition print form as well. See below.
This month’s issue of Transworld Snowboarding has a big red man in it (see portfolio for full image) sweeping away the old generation of snowboarding culture and the folks who milk their glorious past for all it’s worth. Funny though, as in a few years that old lame thing known as the past will probably be the new thing that’s in style. Them’s the breaks.
The other concept for the illustration was an old washed up 90’s snowboarder — whatever that means — sucking on the ever giving teat of a cow (see, extremely crude sketch below). That would have been something else.
And on the completely opposite side of the style spectrum, when compared to the last post, we see the above for Baltimore Magazine out of, yup, you guessed it, Baltimore, MD. A fun and light hearted image about BNEC, the Baltimore Neighbourhood Energy Challenge–which, might I add, is something all cities should take part in! Like most jobs there were a few ideas floating around about the direction of the illustration, and some of them obviously didn’t make the cut. See the proposed images below–my personal favourite being the one with the giant, as it is generally a weirdy. Oh, and thanks to the friendly Kathryn Mychailyszyn from the mag for working with me on this one!
I was out of town for my nephew’s hilarious birthday and returned to a swamp of work, thus the recent lack of updates. If you’re in Toronto you can see the above slob as well as a few other spot characters, and a cover, for this week’s issue of Eye Weekly. It’s their Renew guide and Taylor Shute, their super-cool-nice-guy AD, trusted me enough to get back to my old Rapidograph roots for this one, which I felt suited the need for slobby characters, e.g. Wolverton / Crumb. I feel this style is definitely most true to my “heart”. Anyway.
Once that was completed I was slammed with a last minute illo for Transworld Snowboarding– for the last issue of the volume as well. *SNIFF*. I also took it through the recently admired Rapidograph filter. You should see in the coming months once it’s finally printed. I’ll miss working for them in the coming months up until it comes back into business late spring. Always silly times…
Some shopped dabblings from the sketchbook. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Knights are cool. Vittore Carpaccio’s Portrait of a Knight (left) looks a bit wimpy in the real painting, so I decided to buff him up a little bit here. Botticelli’s Athena and Centaur (right) is a graphic painting, like most of his works, and makes for good source material if you want to draw from some renaissance material.
A silly sampling of Van Der Weyden’s The Entombment (left) and one of the wisest of men–a rare sighting of a coloured person in the Renaissance–from Dürer’s The Adoration Of The Magi (right). Maybe it’s just me, but I always get caught off guard when I see one of Dürer’s paintings. I’ve always associated him as an engraver / draughtsman, as his body of work shows. But he’s proof that a brother’s gotta get paid, right Church?
Do note: all these samplings from old religious paintings are NOT a sign that I’m getting all holy on your asses. I just think they make for silly drawings. That is all.
The arcade in Calgary’s Greyhound Station is one of the only places where you can find the Metal Slug arcade game in Alberta. I whipped this quick spot off for FFWD Weekly in March of ‘09. The article was about the Greyhound Station’s general sense of skeeziness, and at one point focused beautifully on a dirty chap rocking an arcade game. Not sure if it was Super-Max-Turbo-Cat (see above) is a game or not, but hell, why not? I’m posting it here because it can’t be found on the main site. Why is that? Concentrated Facelift!
If you find your way to the main portfolio, you will now only find two illustration sections: Editorial and Music. The selection is limited, more to the point in a less-is-more sort of way. It should be easier to maintain this way and will keep the style beast homogeneous and at bay. Worry not, the Personal Work section remains pretty much untouched, so far. Perhaps one could see a new sketchbook added in coming days/months/eons.
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