A sneak peek of a detail of an illustration finished this week for my favorite Scottish art director, Christine Morrison over at Stocks & Commodities Magazine. I’ll post the full illustration and process story once the issue sees print. And yes, I served as my own model for this one.

So, I’m pretty late to the game here with an Andrew Wyeth tribute, but I’ve been thinking about his work constantly since his passing on January 16th. I had literally been talking to my students about his work just hours before he died.
I didn’t care for Andrew Wyeth’s work at first. His subject [...]

For me, my favorite part of an illustration commission is going to the local Borders or Barnes & Noble and seeing the work on the stands. There’s something very gratifying about knowing that your work is communicating on a mass level. It occurred to me today on the way to Westmont that my cover for [...]

Can’t show the full illustration since it won’t print for another two months, but here’s a detail of a job I turned around on a tight deadline last week for Christine Morrison over at Stocks and Commodities Magazine. Always a pleasure to work with Christine. Since the deadline for this one was unusually short, there [...]

Just a quick post to give a big thumbs-up review to the new J.C. Leyendecker book. Good biographical information, well-edited, and most importantly, filled with top-notch reproductions of Leyendecker’s work. I’ve been waiting for a book like this for a long time, and it’s gratifying to see that they got it right. Go buy it [...]

Ok, so things have finally calmed down enough for me to finally post again. Time to make good on my promise and do a nice thorough process post.
The assignment was a poster image for Westmont College, for their upcoming Christmas Festival concert. I was given the sub-theme of “Lo How a Rose” and told to [...]

Man, I am pathetic at keeping this blog updated with regularity. I promise to do better from here on out.
Working on a fun illustration project right now, and I’m carefully documenting all kinds of stages of it for a nice long process post. But as it’s still in process, I’ll just post a teaser for [...]

Can’t believe I let two weeks slip by without posting. I blame the Olympics. Thanks for destroying my work output for a solid week, Michael Phelps.
Since friend and illustrator Scott Bakal called me out in the comments section of my last post over the fact that I’m not exactly doing sketches per se in my [...]

After months of procrastinating and being occupied with other things, I finally finished my latest entry in the Dialogue sketchbook that I’m passing back and forth with Peter Cusack. Sorry this took me so long, man. I’ll be quicker about it with future entries, I promise!
For those just tuning in, Dialogue is a pretentiously-titled moleskine [...]

This is going to be a massive post, as I’ve just come back from a full and amazing week at the Illustration Academy, hosted by the Ringling School of Art & Design. Robin and I got to work with an amazing group of students, and had the added help of the one and only Anita [...]