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Santa Fe Reporter covers on SPD.org

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

My client, Angela Moore, at Santa Fe Reporter was featured in ‘Great covers from the Santa Fe Reporter‘ on the Society of Publication Designers website. Thanks to Angela for including my cover for the magazine in her feature – it feels great to be mentioned in the same breath as some of the other illustrators who have done covers for the magazine.

Please stop by Angela’s website to check out her design and art work!

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Ideosphere – Black hole transmissions album cover

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Did this for the band Ideosphere for their album Black Hole Transmissions. The image is based on the idea of the ideosphere (look it up on Wikipedia).  The album, which has some fantastic sounding nu-metal progressive rock licks, is currently available for download on Bandcamp.

Tags:album cover art, ideosphere, music
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Best Health – New Year Resolutions

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

These were done for Best Health magazine for their New Year Resolutions article. From the top: taking up a dance class, getting a bra fitting (yes there is such a thing), and putting on sunscreen.

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Penthouse, erotic fiction illustration

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

penthouse dec 2009

penthouse dec 2009

This is probably my favorite piece of work this year. A fullpage and spot for Penthouse, for their erotic fiction section. The piece was about a lady who enjoys diddling herself on planes. She gets found out by her hunky seat-neighbor, who proceeds to literally give her a helping hand. Perhaps not the most intelligent of stories, but certainly one of the more entertaining things for an illustrator to work on!

Tags:Illustration, Illustrator, penthouse, photoshop, Work
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Noisy orcas, Seattle Metropolitan

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

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An illustration of a couple of noisy orcas or killer whales for Seattle Metropolitan. Fun as the pic was, the article was highlighting some serious problems about noise pollution that are affecting the whales. You can read the article here.

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Acco laptop skins illustration

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

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acco2

These were done earlier in the year for Acco Brands. A bunch of illustrators were asked to create designs for laptop skins, and these were the two I made. I’m not sure if they are available for sale yet, but if they are I’ll make an announcement!

Tags:acco, Illustration, Illustrator, laptop skin, photoshop, Work
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New work – Seattle Metropolitan

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
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The final days of free money

This was a fun little piece that was rushed out over a weekend. The article for Seattle Metropolitan was titled ‘The final days of free money‘ and it was about some financial incentives that were about to run out.  I just went with the concept the art director had as the time was very tight; we decided on Cinderella theme for the piece.

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Santa Fe Reporter ‘Sweat’ cover

Monday, September 28th, 2009
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Santa Fe Reporter cover

Did this recently for Santa Fe Reporter, for their 2009 ‘Sweat’ issue. The art director wanted a kickboxing girl (since that is a feature article), and it so happened that I already had a girl in a kickboxing pose from an old illustration. I showed it to her and she was happy with reusing it, with some new elements in the background.

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santa fe reporter, cover sketch

So this was the sketch for the cover. I was asked to do something dynamic, with Chinese dragons, so I came up with the dragon and various lines and elements behind the girl to make her look cooler. I asked for the masthead so that I could work the design around the main elements on the page.

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This was the final art, without the masthead.

Tags:Illustration, Illustrator, kickboxing, photoshop, santa fe reporter
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OWL Halloween

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

owl-cover

Here’s the latest cover for OWL Kids. Halloween this year features Mummies thanks to the upcoming King Tut exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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Here’s a better look at the cover.

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mummysketch2

These were some of the sketches that didn’t make the cut. Originally I was planning to have a more Egyptian theme but it was decided that the issue didn’t have enough Egypt-mummy content to warrant the history lesson!

Also in this issue (I think) is a how-to spread on how to make your own headless man costume. The illustrations were actually done last year for the previous Halloween issue. However, at the time, an incident in Canada made the article seem to be in poor taste and the magazine decided to keep the article for this year instead. Will try to take some pics of this when I get the magazine.

Tags:halloween, Illustration, Illustrator, owl, photoshop, Sketches
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Twitter elections

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

final-lores

Little spot I did a while back for Seattle Metropolitan. They had a reporter covering a local election completely by Twitter, so the art director asked for a Twitter-esque bird to be pecking on a Blackberry.

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