Roosterfish

My friend Dana loves, and I mean LOVES, fly fishing.  He tried teaching me, it was a disaster.   He's been after me to draw fish, specifically ones he likes and wants to catch.  So after many many months of his requests, here is the rooster fish that he is so eager to get on the end of his line. More fish to come in the near future, Dana and I have plans for these illustrations.

  

Food Safety

Here's a project I was working on in May while I was in Tanzania.  It was for Good Eggs, a farm-to-fork type grocery store, kind of like Fresh Direct.  They have 4 hubs, and Brooklyn is the office with which I was working.  It was a fun spot illustration gig and I was bummed to find out the project was cancelled. I went ahead and added the captions which weren't part of the original drawings.

New York City Skyline

Today I got out of work early due to a barely functioning AC, which in turn made the office too hot to work in comfortably or sanely.  So instead of heading home to a cool place, I went to the Jersey City waterfront at Exchange Place and sketched downtown Manhattan.  I was aiming to have the drawing fit on one 11x14 sheet of bristol, but ended up using three.  Pictured above are the buildings south of the Goldman Sachs building.  The Freedom Tower is in there; a bit too short and incomplete.  I made a separate drawing of the Freedom Tower on the left which I'll finish and add into the final drawing.   I will probably redraw all this on one large sheet at some point in the near future.  It was a super relaxing, albeit HOT, drawing session.  There was a breeze that made the heat more bearable, but an annoying fly that has made multiple red, itchy marks on my legs.  

Casa Enrique

Back in mid September I was contacted again by Jesus Diaz, associate art director for The Village Voice.  He wanted a spot illustration for a Robert Sietsema article about a restaurant called Casa Enrique in Brooklyn.  The restaurant's logo is a shaggy dog wearing a sombrero and Jesus wanted the dog incorporated into the illustration.  After reading the article I was practically drooling all over the place because the dishes sounded so tasty.  These are the final illustration and the sketches.  Personally I loved the cooking ones and so did Jesus, but the team at The Village Voice didn't quite like the idea of a dog cooking.

A Drawing A Day 49-70B

I seem to have dropped the ball with updating my blog.  Oops.  All for good reason: I've been living life and doing things.  Hooray!  This post will bring you up to speed with my A Drawing A Day project, which, so far, has been coming along pretty well despite some minor bouts of forgetfulness.  Here are Drawings 49-70B.

A Drawing A Day #34-48

#40A

#40B

 

A Drawing A Day #32-33

Backlog of A Drawing A Days #2

Finally all caught up on the missed ADADs.  Hopefully from today onwards, I'll be back on track with truly doing one a day.