Yeremyan Brothers
Here are some portraits I illustrated for Atlanta Magazine earlier this year. Each pairing is of brothers in the Atlanta area who work together in the restaurant business in some capacity.
Connerty Brothers
Jakob Brothers
Fox Brothers
Atlanta Magazine spread
Here are two sets of complementary colored portraits. The guys on the left were drawn for Outdoor Life and the blue guys on the right were for Indianapolis Monthly. I’ve really enjoyed adding circular shapes with watercolor washes in them behind the heads recently – they make for a nice and simple background.
Faces of the Fair
These gents were drawn for Seattle Met‘s great new issue celebrating the 50th anniversary of the World’s Fair in Seattle in 1962. They were somehow involved in the fair, whether they worked there, exhibited there or attended the fair.
I was encouraged by the art director to try a different direction with the portraits and I found some inspiration in illustrated portraits from the 1950s. Instead of illustrating the shoulders for these guys, I illustrated just their collars and ties and filled the backgrounds with a solid yellow.
If you’re in Seattle you should really check out this issue. There are four beautiful covers to choose from and some fantastic design and classic photos on the interior. You can check out a couple of the spreads on Seattle Met’s Flickr account.
Andrey Ternovskiy, founder of Chatroulette
On the cover of Inc. Magazine
I am very excited about this month’s issue of Inc. Magazine that features one of my portraits on their cover. The little black and green portrait is of Andrey Ternovskiy, the founder of Chatroulette.
This was a pretty quick turnaround. I got the job at about 6pm and it was due the next morning. I work the portraits pretty small, between 3 to 3.5 inches for the size of the face. I have a bunch of new portraits in the works and I will be posting a bit more about the process soon. For more of portraits, visit my website.
Hope you’re enjoying your summer so far!
Portraits for Toronto Life - BBQ Masters
Cuts of Meat - Toronto Life
These tasty illustrations were drawn for a BBQ poster project for Toronto Life magazine’s summer BBQ issue. It was a nice big project and a lot of fun to put together. I love drawing icons and images like these so it was a nice challenge to do so many. Big thanks to John at Toronto Life for the great assignment.
What’s great about illustration projects like this is that I also learn a lot. I sort of know my cuts of meat a bit better now and it actually came in handy at the store the other day (You know how your recipe says to use a specific cut of meat but the store never has it? Knowing which cut is similar or which cuts go by different names is quite useful).
Steer, Fish and Chicken Leg - Toronto Life
The steer/cow/whatever it’s called above was used to show which parts of the animal the meat cuts came from, and the fish and chicken leg were part of a piece about using a smoker to add flavor to your meals.
BBQ icons - Toronto Life
These illustrations (above) are a bit mixed up, but were done as step-by-step icons for a couple instructional pieces. They accompanied pieces about making the perfect patty (I find the tough part is making it firm enough to not just fall through the grill, the easy part is to always add onions – like mom used to make), propane versus charcoal, and how to set up a smoker with wood chips in your BBQ.
Lamb and Pig Roast - Toronto Life
Thanks for reading! Check out the current issue of Toronto Life for more BBQ tips, my illustrations, and other good stuff. Hope you enjoy a summer of delicious BBQ-ing.
Boston Globe - Innovators
These portraits were done for the Boston Globe‘s Globe 100 issue, a special annual magazine about Boston’s innovators and visionaries.
I have been doing a lot of portraits lately and you can find some of them on my portrait page on my website.
I illustrated this charming couple for Barron’s last month. These folks are involved in some kind of fraudulent activity in Russia. As is often the case, these portraits were drawn with the help of reference photos the size of a postage stamp. It’s always a nice challenge to grab all the details I can find in there to make a face that looks like it’s supposed to.
My little portraits appeared in the same issue as a Milton Glaser illustration, how cool is that?
NBA All-Stars : East (Blue) and West (Red)
The NBA All-Star game was in Los Angeles on Sunday night and I had the amazing opportunity to illustrate portraits of the starters for the East and West squads for the Los Angeles Times [click the image to view larger].
I also painted a couple extra guys for the West including dunk contest winner and car jumper Blake Griffin and Pau Gasol of the Lakers.
Being a huge NBA fan, it’s always nice to have the chance to paint NBA players, including my favorite player of the group Derrick Rose (first portrait) of the Chicago Bulls. And Durant, and Stoudemire and Griffin. And LeBron. They’re all awesome.
I have some ideas for new NBA related illustrations, so be on the lookout for those in the next little while.
This project for Boston Magazine required me to paint 40 portraits of 40 women (only 24 shown here) who made the list as some of Boston’s 50 most powerful women. Please click the image to view it larger.
These are in the current issue of Boston magazine, so if you’re in the area, pick it up!
People Who Died - Philadelphia City Paper
I had the opportunity recently to illustrate 10 portraits for Philadelphia City Paper‘s annual ‘People Who Died’ issue. I was asked to create a cover illustration and 10 portraits of people with ties to Philadelphia who died in 2010. Here they are:
Szebolcs Prem and Dora Schwendtner and Manute Bol
Hiroshi Iwasaki and Polly Plummer Mackie
John 'Acid Squid' Weir and Prince Chunk
Solomon Burke and Trudy Pitts
Teddy Pendergrass and Sabina Rose O'Donnell
I worked on these portraits over Christmas and worked on some of the drawings while watching the Christmas day basketball games. That makes for a great Christmas – drawing and basketball. I was also asked to do the type on the banners. I’ve done a couple assignments where I’ve done hand-drawn type and it’s always a lot of fun. It was a bit tricky to fit some of the longer names in there but I’m happy with all of them.
Head on over to Philadelphia City Paper’s website to read about who these people are if you’re unfamiliar with them.
I hope you all had a great 2010 and have an even better 2011. Happy New Year!
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