Planes and Parachutes

Below is an assignment I did for The Pittsburgh City Paper a while back in early October. It's basically about airlines and union problems. Not exactly the most interesting topic but I am pretty satisfied with the illustration. Lisa (the art director) did the layout and I'm happy to see the image printed so large.

Here is the most recent assignment I've done. It was a cover for the Pittsburgh City Paper.


here's the final cover


here's the article


here's the sketch

Cover

Just finished working on a cover yesterday for the Pittsburgh City Paper. My original illustration of step-by-step how to draw a poor art student was used as part of a larger composition created by the art director.

Today I hope to start working on some new promo pieces to send out and put on my website. But before I do that, I need to get some more art supplies, namely pen nibs. All the ones I have are either clogged, rusted, or bent and completely useless. I wish I could buy them in bulk from somewhere.

Here's my most recent published illustration from the Pittsburgh City Paper. I posted a large image so you can read the article as well. It's pretty interesting.

Things have been busy around here lately. The past couple weeks I have been occupied doing illustration work for various publications. I was contacted by Baltimore Magazine to do a color spot for the April Issue. Then a few days later I was contacted by Pittsburgh City Paper to do a b&w spot, and then the following day I received another assignment (a 6"x6" color illustration) , this time from Hyphen Magazine who I had contacted earlier in January. I successfully finished all the work yesterday, although at one point it got slightly confusing about dates since the order in which I received the assignments was not the order in which they were due. Thank god for post-it notes.