L.A. Boyzz

First off, this is something that I just finished for Wired Magazine. I got a call Wednesday evening for a rush job. Basically sketches due the next day and a finish due the day after that. For some reason I always enjoy the rush jobs way more than the long drawn out assignments. I think there is something nice about finishing an assignment in a short amount of time. The article to accompany this illustration was on the website, sellaband.com .

Basically it's for new bands to get people who visit the site to sponser them. Everyone can chip in 10 dollars and if the band raises $50,000 they get to record an album with a top notch producer with state of the art equipment. If the band makes it big, everyone gets some sort of dividend (though theres some weird catch to this in the contract). I really liked the idea of people contributing to something larger and came up with this concept. The second sketch is something crazy that the art department thought of on the fly, and I also thought might make a good visual but thankfully was rejected.

I had a lot of fun working on this one and I felt like I won a small victory that I didn't have to do the usual cliché that would normally go with a "concept illustration".




This is something totally unrelated. Apparently a couple of nights ago my studiomate Kunche heard these guys chasing another dude down the street. He was attempting to break into their car and I guess they caught him in the act and took a bat to him. Our neighbor said he saw them slam this guy's body into the curb WWF style....Everything in these photos is probably 5 feet in front of our studio door.

anyways, here's a little taste of L.A.

Sketchbook New York

Hello,

I just switched coasts about a week ago and now am living in Brooklyn, New York. A couple of weeks before that I came out here to look for apartments. While looking around I filled up several sketchbook pages' worth of drawings, even started a new one. I've taken an interest in drawing locations more recently, especially because New York has so many interesting things to look at. many of these drawings were done with a Hunt 101 quill pen nib dipped into Sennelier inda ink, "the blackest" according to the jovial old guy who helped me at New York Central Art Supply. It's a real challenge to draw on location with quill pens, but the drawings are worth it. Expect ink spills.

Tear-Stained Introspective Comics

Much thanks to Brian Rea and Sam Weber at the New York Times OpEd for asking me to join the Summerscapes series (which previously showcased comics by Hope Larson and Vanessa Davis). It was definitely nice to put my thoughts into comic form with my experiences in Japan still fresh in my mind. This piece ran on Labor Day.