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Yup. It’s been a while. So to make up for it I want to begift you. More specifically, one of you. Or better even, the first of you. Playing off of the idea of the monthly contest day found on Raymond Biesingers The Daily Sentry (hands down one of the best illustrator blogs out there), I will mail out a copy of both falklands EPs, which I’ve created minor packaging for, to the first person to comment on this post. Easy as that! So you if you enjoy good local Edmonton rock and leaving comments on blogs, you can expect to see their two CD EPs, one of them fresh off the boat, in the mail!

Currently on the table keeping me busy: Some work for the Globe and Mail, due out tomorrow (you can see Genevieve’s today!). Once again, a few illustrations in the making for Euroman out in Denmark, and of course, working on chapter 2 of We Hate This Place Here; It’s Our Home.

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.