Here is a recent assignment for one of my favorite and oldest clients – a feature opener for a story about medical practices making their websites accessible for people with disabilities:
Here is one of the runners-up that I also liked and wanted to share:
Thanks to Jef and Jennifer!
I have a long line of spots queued up for posting so here goes…
This first one was for a Golf Digest column about how you should wait until the off season to make big changes in your swing. The writer refers to those changes as “major surgery” and the editors wanted to focus on that for the art. Here is the final:
And here are a few of the leftovers:
This was for the ESPN column I’ve been illustrating since August. It was about the oldest Turkey Trot going, 120 plus years:
This was for the NYTimes Science Times about grasshoppers that need to change their mating call to be heard over traffic noise:
And finally this fun little o-meter for a short piece in AARP The Magazine about going out to dinner with an ex, and the spectrum of innocent to steamy:
Thanks to Doug, Martin, Peter and Joanna!
ESPN is no stranger to illustrators, sports fans or not. Every issue of the magazine is filled with great design and illustration. I was so excited to get a call from them back in August to create a small icon that would run regularly with a column about sporting events related to the whole Mayan calendar, end of the world hoo-ha. The original idea was simply to mix Mayan imagery with sports imagery and this is how it ran for one or two weeks:
But then it turns out, according to their fact checkers, this is more Aztec than Mayan, so I redid it based on a specific Mayan calendar they sent me:
And then, after another week or so, the whole Mayan sports calendar idea went out the window. We went back to the drawing board to create something that said sports and end of the world and the idea that the column is a list of events to see before the apocalypse, that sort of thing. Here are some of the sketches that didn’t make the cut:
And here is the final:
And then after another week or so, this spot and the whole recurring image idea got canned. Now we do a different spot for each column – here is one for a college football rivalry called the “cocktail party” game:
Here are some of the leftovers for a column about a marathon in Antarctica:
And here is the final:
I would like to add that everyone at ESPN could not be nicer or easier to work with. To everyone that has been in on this – Martin, John, Linda, Meaghan and Marne – thanks so much, it’s been a lot of fun! AND, more of these coming soon!
Here is a roundup of some recent spot assignments…
This was for a wine magazine from Canada called Wine Access. Each year they publish their 25 Killer Wines list and this article was explaining the meaning of the label “Killer”. Illustrators avoid using words like the plague but what do you do when the article is about one word specifically? Here are some of the sketches:
And here is the final:
I have two spots in the November issue of Golf Digest. First, for The Basics section, why the perfect putting motion is like a pendulum:
And then a smaller spot for an advice column on matching your attention to your intention:
This next one was a quarter-page for Rhode Island Monthly for an article about the debate surrounding legalized gambling. Here are the rejects:
And here is the final (but don’t be surprised if those dice make an appearance somewhere down the road, too):
Here are the NYTimes Business Day spots from the past month – Drive or fly; in-flight entertainment in the aisles; more on in-flight movies; the writer leaves a fancy cruise ship hotel because they don’t have wi-fi service:
Here are two Science Times spots from September – A wasp that hunts redback spiders and the discovery of one of the earliest examples of prehistoric dentistry (check out the Drawing Science blog to see all the sketches and a weekly post from the Science Times archive):
Thanks to Teresa, Doug, Carolyn, Joe and Peter!
July and August were very busy months over here so I’ll be playing catch-up over the next few weeks…
This was for The Washington Post for an article about hospitals providing their own insurance for patients:
I’ve been regularly illustrating a couple of columns for Golf Digest this year which has been great. This one was about playing in the moment and not letting past bad shots interfere with your game:
This two-panel piece was for Remodeling Magazine for an article about how to reward your employees without using cash:
Here is a spot from the NYTimes Science Times about a study that used smells to discover we can learn in our sleep:
I don’t post all the Science Times illustrations here anymore but you can always visit the Drawing Science blog to see the spots, the sketches and more each week.
Here was a quick sidebar spot for AARP The Magazine about retirement calculators (I have a soft spot for this little guy):
And here is a roundup of the past few NYTimes Business Day spots – international flights shrinking as business travel season begins, movie entertainment on long-haul flights, and rants from business travelers:
Thanks to Marianne, Doug, Allison, Peter, Lesley, Joe and Phyllis!
Here is a quick roundup of some recent editorial work…
This was my first assignment for Worth, a magazine that been on my top 10 for some time (in fact, I’ve crossed a few names off that list this summer). The article was about how to handle your kids’ allowances:
The article was asking if they should work for the money or if contributing to the household is just part of being in a family. But, for the final, they work hard for the money:
This little series accompanied a back page piece for New Jersey Monthly about one day in traffic court:
Here is the page:
This spot for Golf Digest was for the Basics column. It talked about hitting down hard on the ball to pop it up:
This was the first illustration I’ve done for Macworld in a couple years and it was good to get back in there. The article was about Mission Control, the new desktop clutter manager for Macs:
Here is a recent spot for Science Times about how hummingbirds alter their flight in rain (you read more about this spot and other from Science here):
Here are the past four weeks of the Business Day spots for the NYTimes – more airline fees, complaints from hotel customers, and two for consecutive columns on the mess over who is sitting where on planes:
And finally, one outside my usual slot in Science Times for some how-to spots for arthritis sufferers:
This month I will be making some much needed updates to the site, so I apologize now if the galleries are a little mixed up over the next couple weeks.
Thanks for looking, and thanks to all the ADs here – Pam, Greg, Doug, Rob, Peter, Joe and Phyllis!
I love the NYT Book Review. I love that I feel like I can try something simple and narrative and draw the whole thing in pencil and have it be OK. This was just in Sunday’s paper for a book called Beautiful Ruins:
This was a spot for Corporate Knights magazine, art directed by the inimitable Pete Ryan. I was so pleased to do this and be a part of the all-star illustrator lineup in this (and every) issue. The article was about preparedness, unpreparedness and resiliency with the effects of climate change. Here is the final and a few leftovers:
This was a quickie for The Wall Street Journal about executives who refuse to leave their post even when most of the board is voting against them:
Here is a tiny spot for Hanley Wood about sales reps acting as project managers:
This opener for American Medical News was about considering the office culture when hiring new staff:
Here is a half-page for Seattle Magazine for an article about genetically modified foods. The test tube image was what they chose and I also finished up one of the rejects just because I liked it:
And here are the past few weeks of NYTimes Biz Day columns – Business travelers want upgrades from crowded coach seats, the follow-up to upgrades column, air rage, and the debate about what to do when a family or couple asks you to move so they can sit together:
Here is a Science Times illustration from a few weeks ago about how cockroaches can fling themselves under a ledge so quickly that they seem to disappear:
You can see all the Science Times illustrations, the rejected sketches and spots from the 8 year archive at drawingscience.wordpress.com.
Thanks to Nicholas, Pete and Jack, Dan, Allison, Jennifer, Sue, Joe and Phyllis, and Peter!
Here are a few recent editorial assignments…
This was for the back page of the NYTimes Book Review. It was an essay about Erich Segal’s novel “The Class” and other books on Harvard culture. At the top of the assignment I was told it would be best to not have books in the art but this just worked, so I sent it, and they picked it:
Here is the runner-up:
This quarter-page for AARP was for a Q&A about a son who wants his father to stop driving. The dad feels he is cured after his cataract surgery but his driving tells a different story:
Here are two ideas from the scrap heap worth sharing:
This little spot was for a column in the New York Observer about a guy who discovers what he loves about nature – that it doesn’t give a crap about mankind. It was totally irreverent and a lot of fun to work on:
Here are two that got away:
This was a small spot for Golf Digest about “thumping” the ball in a sand bunker:
And here are a few recent spots for On the Road in the NYTimes – A young woman talks about aspiring to be a flight attendant in spite of all the drawbacks; passengers are still bringing concealed weapons onto airplanes; United Airlines is testing a new policy of checking bags (and charging passengers) for oversized bags in the overhead bins:
I just added some new posts to the DrawingScience blog which you can check out here. This spot for Science Times this week about how men’s offices are crawling with bacteria (just a tip in case you don’t read the article, I wouldn’t touch the chair or the phone):
And finally before I head off to ICON next week, I wanted to share that one (or more) of my submissions to I Love Charts has been selected for the book. It’s a fun blog with a lot of great contributors and I recommend checking it out on Tumblr, and buying the book.
I didn’t receive my copy yet but here are a couple of my favorites that I hope made it in:
Thanks to Jason, Cody, Joe, Peter, Scott, Doug, Joanna, Dian, and Nicholas!