huge Bulldog

dear blog,

Walking around in Williamsburg I stumbled upon this HUGE (American?) Bulldog. The owner said that this dog was about 30 lbs. bigger than they are supposed to get.

Merry Christmas!

Dear blog,

Here is my first annual Christmas Card! The idea was to get a bunch of the RIT illustration kids to make a christmas card/portfolio piece and send it around. It turned out to be a lot of fun. This was just what I needed to get motivated...A DEADLINE!!!
Everyone I sent cards to got their own individual drawings inside.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

The downside to Product Illustration

Dear blog,

I was standing in line at the food co-op today and noticed these cans of pet food.
Everything seems fine until you look closely at the animals' faces.

Egads! Is it just me, or is there something eerily human about that dog's eye. Or in the elongation of the cat's nose and the shape of its jaw. Getting proportions just right is tough, especially with cats.
It reminds me of the covers of the Animorphs books, right around the last shade of the person becoming the creature.

couch doodling 2

Locked out

Dear blog,

Here are some things I drew tonight when I was locked out until Katie rescued me. I get locked out enough that I think the drawings I do while in said situation warrant their own tag. So here's vol 1 of Locked Out.

couch doodling

dear blog,

Here ya go

Paris Hilton Sketch

Dear blog,

Here's another sketch from the cover of Nylon. This one is of the doe-eyed Paris Hilton. she's actually a lot of fun to draw. The best part is getting to subtley suggest her air-headedness through her blank and vaguely cross-eyed stare.

I'm sure she's a nice girl though...

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I went home this weekend

Huge English Mastiff

Dear blog,

I was leaving work today in SoHo and laying on the ground in front of the building was easily the biggest dog I've ever seen. It's an English Mastiff.

To give you a little more perspective, the guy who's standing with the dog was probably like 5"10

Sole gig poster

Dear blog,

Oh how I miss doing posters for the Bug Jar. Cameron is always happy with what I give him and I've often given him some pretty twisted stuff. I like gig posters because the point is to sell the band, but more importantly to get people's attention and look really cool. There are many many means to justify those ends, blog. This drawing took me about 20 minutes because of the deadline constraints I was under.

Check out SOLE. He's a sweet rapper on the experimental hip-hop label Anticon.