Totoro Forest Update

You can now place an online bid on my Totoro Forest Project drawing. Here are instructions on how to bid. My picture is on Page 3 of the gallery (middle, top row).

My previous post about this piece included some sketches and thumbnails, if you're interested.

charcoal 1

Obama 08

Giving Good Face

Michael Phelps Collab Illustration!

This is about Michael Phelps and the dismal state of the athlete recruitment programme in the US. For ESPN.

So Sam helped me with this one a bit, so I thought it was only fair to credit him in the mag. Our first co-credit! I couldn't decide which background was best, so I sent the AD (Siung Tjia) all three. I sometimes do that and let the AD decide... I can't tell if they like that or not. I don't think they mind too much. They went with the darker rose background (above).

Sci-Lit

Here's a new one for SEED Magazine. It's about literature for kids with a science angle. A slightly bigger, better version is here.

Sea of Gymnasts

ANOTHER sports related project. A rejected sketch that might get filed in the "to-do" folder...

Michael Phelps Diet

It's Phelpsmania here, Stateside. The NBC featurette of his 12,000-calorie diet has touched off an unfortunate rash of journalists attempting to "recreate" his daily intake. We get it. It's a Herculean task. Please stop now.



P.S. Interesting interpretation of "Ham and Cheese Sandwiches", England!

Sports in Brooklyn: 6

Football drills yesterday. Since I've moved to America, I've learned that Football = Fall. Which is most welcome.

Melancholy Mood

Olympix!

For the Boston Globe, AD Brian Gross.

Channel 6 Comics

Monsters

Unfinished Dancers

The watercolourist, who shall not be named, copped out on this one.

Book Review illustration

Here's an illustration that'll be in this weekend's Washington Post BookWorld section. Book reviews, I think, are the most fun editorial jobs because you get to delve into a narrative and not worry about conveying every idea in the article.

I am attempting to pull back a bit and bring my work back to a "clearer" line. The thing with that technique is that it requires extremely careful colour-picking, which can be a bit laborious. Then, um, the art director (the lovely Beth Broadwater) informed me it was actually supposed to be black and white. Whoops. Read your emails carefully, kids.