fun with duotone
I got asked to do an illustration for a journal that the Shivas Iron Society does I think twice a year. The design agency in charge of this project had a whole section printed in duotone, which is always pretty rad.
The story was about golf having too many rules and regulations almost to the point of ridiculousness. Both the art director and myself felt that the illo shouldn't be too serious. I sent them the sketch which everyone liked the concept but felt the background should be a bit more abstract, so I came up with that first version...sort of this geometric golf course, which actually got sent back to me with instructions to simplify.....
Anyways, looking back I think the AD was probably right....geometric golf course?! pshhh
rawk
Album cover for this punk band called The Rituals. I initially had an idea to use the umbrellas and rain. The band wanted to have some sort of strange or dark imagery, so I think we came to somewhat of a comprimise. I tried to get the general feeling of the album and tried hard not to make another typical punk album cover ( lots of help from Nicolo, the lead singer).... The inside drawing (with lyrics) is of random people, the band member's portraits mixed in. p.s. ara once again saved me with awesome type skillz. and kerning. i learned to appreciate the subtle art of kerning
scientific notations
hello! welcome to the new frank, nathan and josh blog! I suppose we're going to be posting stuff that we're working on or other art related goodness. I'm starting this off by posting something I just finished for Entertainment Weekly's Forecast issue. i think it should be coming out on the newsstands in the next week or so. The art director gave me somewhat of a free reign to do whatever I wanted to do. So I came up with this idea of an observatory and scientists