The Year That Was
Happy New Year! A look back into the year of 2006. Entertainment Weekly asked me to create 3 spreads as openers to sections in the magazine. I had an idea to draw a race that would link the spreads together, but ultimately I was asked to stick a little closer to the initial concepts. Some of my earlier doodles...
After a bunch of frustrated drawings, I found some old children's books and I re-watched Tron that really inspired me in a way. I'm not really sure how it helped directly, but it really jolted me out of a rut I felt like I was in earlier.
+++The Year That Was+++
+++The Entertainers+++
+++The Best And The Worst+++
p.s. I think the actual print versions of these are slightly different colors...more pink to tie in with the magazine format. Might still be on newsstands this week. And I still like the looser sketch on this last one better than the final. I think maybe I lost a little energy when I went to finish this.
After a bunch of frustrated drawings, I found some old children's books and I re-watched Tron that really inspired me in a way. I'm not really sure how it helped directly, but it really jolted me out of a rut I felt like I was in earlier.
+++The Year That Was+++
+++The Entertainers+++
+++The Best And The Worst+++
p.s. I think the actual print versions of these are slightly different colors...more pink to tie in with the magazine format. Might still be on newsstands this week. And I still like the looser sketch on this last one better than the final. I think maybe I lost a little energy when I went to finish this.
Posted at 9:38 AM
14 Comments:
wow these are awesome....very inspiring
NIce stuff as always. Very engaging.
Great work Josh!
I really like that first sketch you put up with the dinosaurs.
It makes me think of when I was a kid for some reason. It's almost as if I've seen that image before.
Keep up the good work!
Hey Josh
Very cool and thanks for the sketches. I actually have that issue of the magazine still sitting on my desk and open to one of your illustrations. I'm curious how big the original sketches are; are they of comparable to the finished sketch size?
--Trish
The first image is great! love the composition.
How do you make the pencil so dark?
thanks for the comments! Oskar - I think the first sketches weren't chosen mainly because they didn't really go with the sections that followed. If you ever get a chance to see the magazine you'll see what I mean. Trish - the original sketches are rather small I think no larger than 7" and the final linework I draw a bit larger than reproduction I think I drew around 18" or 19"....I like to draw my sketches smaller because it's a bit easier for me to work out my compositional ideas at that scale. Manuel - I use a softer pencil for the larger dark areas and basically just adjust the levels in photoshop once I scan in the linework. Also, sometimes you can double up the layer to increase the "blackness"
I love the happy kid front left of the entertainers!
And what a sexy bicycle!
Hey Josh, just wondering if you were a fan of the work of Taiyo Matsumoto ( Black & White, Blue Spring, No. 5 ) ? If you're not already familiar with his work I think you'd really dig it.
Your work is awesome, those sketches are.. woao.. you know how to draw... any secret? I like very much the way you do the blog, showing all the process envolved, is cool to see layouts and roughs that were lost in the limbo of discarded proposals..
so thanx !!
I like the clock one the best ... very fitting. It was cool to see your stuff in EW.
Very good your works. Excellent, your style is very good. I admire to you. Greetings!
;-)
I like those tiny boxers by the crashed bikes - nice.
Do you have an XL scanner, scan your art in separate sections, or photograph it? I struggle with the small flatbed scanner - so I'm curious.
Awesome Josh,
I always like how i get to see the sketches then get amazed by the final.
psst, do you notice the similarity to pietari posti? simultaneous influence, or did one come first?
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