Last minute...literally...cover illustration

I got a call last night from Art Director Tim Gough at Philadelphia Weekly asking if I could turn around a quick cover illustration. The article deals with the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster. Tim is one of my favorite art directors to work with so I didn't mind staying up until the wee hours of the night putting this together. After lots of concept sketches and wasted ink I settled on this. There are some things I wish I could change but for starting at 10pm last night and emailing it at 5am this morning I don't think it's too bad.

Fur is Social Suicide......

Here is a new Illustration for Social Affairs Magazine about the taboo of wearing fur in a green world. I usually don't post sketches because they are always a mess but this sketch came together pretty cleanly.

LSD and Ecstasy Causes Baby Sightings

Here's another First Time I Got High illustration for Phawker.com. This week it's about a guy who dropped acid and took ecstasy at the same time and started seeing baby heads grow out of his friend's cheek. He also saw his other friend's head float away like a balloon among other various hallucinations.

Metal Beard!!!!

Here are 2 versions of an illustration for next week's Philly Weekly. The article is about the 1 year anniversary of a metal night at Johnny Brenda's called Metal Beard. I know this concept is obvious but I like drawing hair so I couldn't pass it up. I'm not sure why I made the guy bald but the beard more than makes up for it.

Freedom Food

This is for an article in Miami based Social Affairs Magazine about the comeback of French food in the U.S..

Father of the Year

Illustration for article about Joe Jackson and his persuasive parenting skills. I also added a drawing I did to practice his facial features. I think I'd rather be poor than have a father like him.

Yep....