Here is a cover I did for a food Magazine called Tomato. The idea was to capture the Gerneral Revelry at xmas (again, or Christmas).

Here are a few pieces from a little while back. The first is the full-page feature followed by the two spots. The story was about the tough decisions parents, and kids, are facing when picking a high school. With with a plethora of choices, it can can be a daunting place to be.

A couple of years back, the now Toronto Mayor (Rob Ford) said  ”Roads were built for buses, cars and trucks. Not for bikes.” Below is an illustration I did for OnEarth magazine article that covers this very issue. The reality is, is that there are a growing number of cyclists in cities worldwide choosing to pedal their way into work and around the city. The illustration below was for an article about the situation in New York and how cyclists there are learning to coexist with cars.

Here are a few older drawings I did awhile back. These were done as a part of a series I did exploring a character for a client. I put them on here because I quite enjoy the process of developing characters. Especially the little demonic ones. The ones with the shifty eyes and gnarly smiles.

How far will lawyers go to protect their clients in dodgy financial transactions. Well, the government is, once again, trying to change this.

An illustration for Time out Chicago. What it was like in the lunch room at the break during the trial of Rod Blagojevich. Rod, his wife, the lawyer, and those who cook the food. See the article here.

A few weeks ago I produced two illustrations for an article in the Harvard Business Review. Here are the spot and feature for this article, which you can see here “The Paradox of Excellence”.

For these two illustrations the art director wanted to keep the palate simple. In the feature we went with a simple flat colour, like in much of my work. For the spot, we kept the background white so the text could be wrapped around it. To bring bit more impact to it I put a flat colour in the bullseye and a touch of a red wash in her face.

Here is the Feature I did for this article.

Here are a couple of images from a figure drawing session a couple of weeks ago. The fellow we were drawing was really great. He was thin and sort of bony. I am not entirely sure what it is that appeals to me about this, but I much prefer this, over someone who has a perfectly toned and proportionate figure. I guess maybe, it is that I don’t ever really see things as perfect. And if they are close to perfect, I find it hard to attach myself to them in this way.

I  am profoundly drawn to what others may find unappealing.

It seems a little more realistic to me somehow.

Here is the rest of what you might have already seen in my e-promo. As I said, I used only a small part of the illustration so that you could get a better idea as to the drawing quality of some of my work. This tends to get lost when I am limited to showing smaller pieces in the emails.

Also. Here is a bit of blurb from the story. This may have been the one thing that somehow inspired me to end up where I did with this drawing.

“But tomorrow, all eyes would be on Morgenstern and his success — or failure — at managing first impressions would set the stage for the rest of his time at Lurelco. There was nothing tangible Morgenstern could offer Lurelco’s staff. He had no authority to award retention bonuses. Yet, he had to find a way to convince them to stay and be helpful to their new colleagues.”