Obama

Since I hadn't posted for a long while....here's another portrait! Been meaning to do an Obama Portrait for a while.

Doubt

Been a while since my last post. Here's a portrait of Meryl Streep from the movie Doubt. This film looks pretty intense. I'd like to do Philip Seymour Hoffman piece to go along with this one.

There Will Be Blood

Here's a portrait of Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview in the P.T. Anderson film There Will Be Blood.

The "If Only" Train

This is for an article about all the trains over a lifetime that you have missed by a only few seconds. Where might you be today if you caught one of those "if only trains", lets say, 10 or 15 years ago?

Battlegrounds

This an an illustration for the last in a series of articles about the battleground states Florida, Michigan, Virginia, and Colorado prior to the election. I drew the animals representing those states dressed in military regalia.
I would like to point out that Steven Heller, when asked what the future of illustration was, said the next big thing would be Anthropomorphism, the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human creatures and beings, natural and supernatural phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. "In hard times — and we can all agree the economy is not making life easy — people take refuge in fantasy and derive hope (or at least relief) from satire. These ingredients have historically resulted in anthropomorphic depiction in art and illustration"

Buy American...if you can afford it.

Warren Buffet wrote an Op-Ed piece for the NY Times last week. He discussed the financial crisis and felt that, since prices have hit rock bottom, it was the perfect time to invest in American stocks for long term investment. "Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful." Fine advice if you're already rich. Doesn't help us po' folk much though.

Ahmadinejad

Here's a political drawing of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Thought it would be pretty funny to portray the guy handling enriched uranium himself behind radioactive-proof glass.

Robo Love

Here's an Illustration I did for an article about there soon being a day when people fall in love with robots and want them for companions, friends, love objects and possibly even partners for sex and marriage.

Manny

No Need For Speed

Here's an illustration for an article about reducing the maximum speed of motor vehicles for the sake of safety.

Save the Environment: Drill, Baby, Drill

Here's an illustration I did for an article about offshore drilling and it's relationship to the environment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/opinion/15hahn.html

Think Blue

Here are some rejected comps for Jim Salvati's celebrity portraiture class "Notorious"

Process

I've been trying to be better about documenting my progress as I work. Here's, step by step,
a piece I did back in March.

Paper Meat

Been constructing various 3dimensional cuts of meat from Rives Bfk, FW acrylic inks, and styrofoam trays. I'm working on a large series of these. I'll next be constructing a meat grinder and hamburger, also from paper, for Rob Clayton's class.

San Diego Comic Con 2008 Table #F1

Just letting everybody know that I'll be exhibiting at Comic Con again with good friends Ken Garduno and Tom "Haubs". Look for us at table #F1 in the general exhibition hall.

Superheroes who didn't quite make the cut.

Here are a few pages from a zine I'm putting together with Ken Garduno and Tom Haubs for Comic Con...a zine about goofy bargain bin superheroes.