Complete Works

This is a small drawing running in today's Wall Street Journal. It accompanies an article about how aging musicians can feel constrained by a boxed set and all the finality that that implies. The article is about a specific anecdote from Elvis Costello, but this guy is just a stand in for older rockers in general.

Pretty quick turnaround -- about a day and a half from phone call to due date, but I still managed to get something I'm pretty happy with.

You can read the article on the WSJ's website here.

Big thanks to AD David Bamundo.

12/52 - San

San, from Princess Mononoke. Princess of the spirits of ghouls, beasts, and ancient Gods. My favorite movie.

11/52 - Batman

When I was a kid I wore Batman pajamas pretty much everywhere. Especially when riding around in the Batman wagon that my dad built. 

10/52 - Skull

I don't know what this guy is.

9/52 - Tifa

Tifa Lockhart, from Final Fantasy VII. Everyone's favorite love interest who DOESN'T get impaled on a nine foot sword.

And hey, I found out this thing got accepted into this year's Society of Illustrators annual as well. Neat!

8/52 - Solomon Grundy

Do you guys know that DC has its own version of the Hulk and he is a zombie who used to be a mobster? And he's named after a nursery rhyme? Yeah I don't know what's up with that either.

7/52 - Kuja

Kuja, from Final Fantasy IX. Of all the designs Yoshitaka Amano made his his lifetime, Kuja's is probably the most Yoshitaka Amano-y.

6/52 - Lizardman

Lizardman, from one of the many worlds in which Lizardmen exit.

5/52 - Link

Link, from the Zelda series. Man, just blazing through these things.

4/52 - Amarant

Amarant, from FF9. A character I liked but never used.

3/52 - Richter Belmont

Richter Belmont, from the Castlevania series.

2/52 - Ganon

Ganon, from the Zelda series.

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Also, I'm very pleased to announce that my Frog Kaiju drawing won the Silver medal in the Institutional category of this year's Society of Illustrators annual!

1/52 - Zidane

One out of a set of fifty-two small drawings that are going out to folks who were nice enough to buy the videogames print I posted about earlier. The majority of these things are videogame characters, since I needed to sorta turn the ol' brain off for a bit in order to crank these out quickly. Zidane is the protagonist of Final Fantasy 9.

6x9", sumi ink and ebony pencil on Strathmore cold press.

Brunch Date

I drew a few different little characters for this month's issue of San Francisco Magazine. Each of them is the type of a guy you can expect to find (and potentially date!) at some of the city's brunch destinations.

Sleep like Dead Men, Wake Up like Dead Men.

I was extremely happy to be asked to contribute to this year's edition of the Cloudy Collection. If you're unfamiliar, the Cloudy Collection is a set of themed letterpress prints curated by cartoonist and entrepreneur David Huyck. Artists are given a theme, size, and set of pantone colors and then left to their own devices. The prints are then sold as a set on the Cloudy Collection's website. This year's theme is Hanging with the Dead.

I'm excited to be included among this years amazing crop of talent, which includes David Huyck, Natasha Allegri, Emily Carroll, Michael DeForge, Michael Slack, and Steve Wolfhard. The work that these folks churned out is really unbelievable.

Videogames Print

Limited edition "Videogames" Giclée print on super heavy 100% Cotton rag, hot press, natural white 330 GSM paper. Edition of 50, signed and numbered! Never to be printed again! A sweet 24" on the long side. Each comes with some freebies, including a small original drawing (along the lines of these guys). $65, shipping included.

UPDATE: Annnnnd we are SOLD OUT! Thanks so much, everyone!

Screening Applicants

I recently completed a job for PLANSPONSOR about companies using social networking and internet resources to screen prospective job applicants. Seems a lot of companies aren't taking advantage of this useful tool, and might be accidentally hiring secret dinosaur men. Who knew?

AD SooJin Buzelli

I knocked the first sketch out in about ten minutes and then spent about a full day trying to figure out a couple more, only to have that first sketch chosen in the end. I coulda kicked myself. I am pretty happy with that glob man in the third sketch, though.

Another reject

This is another one of those drawings I got pretty far into before calling it quits. In this particular case, I realized that there were some things I could've done a lot better, and there was a smarter way of conveying the scene. I'll call this a very well-developed study and file it away. I'm almost done the revised drawing and I'm happy to say that it's significantly better.

This is for another one of those short stories.

Videogames Auction

Bidding is now OPEN for the one-of-a-kind, never-gonna-be-made-again skateboard with my Videogames design on it. Bidding closes in a couple days, and prices are still relatively low. Get it while the getting's good! All procedes from the auction go to AIGA Colorado to help fund the arts community in Denver.

BID BID BID

Advice to Young Associates

This is a piece I recently completed for the fall issue of Litigation magazine. It ran alongside the feature story on advice for young associates with dreams of becoming trial lawyers. Pretty much everything I know about law practices is culled from Phoenix Wright and Boston Legal, which I don't think are entirely accurate representations of the industry. A lot of the advice was applicable to most professions (distinguish yourself, gain specialized knowledge, etc), which made it easier for me to relate.

I did a couple spots for the article as well. The one below is about sampling.

AD Jill Tedhams

This is the debut issue of Litigation Magazine's redesign. My good buddy Luke Williams is a graphic design supertalent and worked on their rebranding. He was also good enough to use pieces from my portfolio as placeholders in his designs, which led directly to this job. Lesson: make friends.

On another note, I am on tumblr, tumbln the dumb drawings that don't even warrant a blog post over here.