An illustration for Plansponsor about how healthcare providers are "holding the line" in their employee policies. Basically, they are not making too many changes despite huge changes happening in government policy.
So I came up with the idea for a cowboy doctor holding his ground moments before a CRAZY LIFE THREATENING DUEL!!!!
This is an imaginary life story I created about editor, Peter Ludgren. For this assignment, I was given an interview with the editor, and then told to create the most fantastical, out-there, life story I could think of. And this was the result.
A piece for the LA Times Book Review this past Sunday. The book is called "Orange Is the New Black" by Piper Kerman, a middle class white woman who ended up in jail for a crime she committed long ago. The book chronicles her experience in a minimum security prison - and how it wasn't all that bad!
I was asked by the folks at Extrapool to create this piece for a promotional flyer they would be sending out. The only requirement was that it be two colors. I really enjoyed working with this restriction and playing around with textures that were both additive and subtractive. It's something I definitely want to experiment with more.
This small illustration appears today in the NY Times OP-ED section! It accompanies letters that are in response to an article concerning the growing college wait list. Some letters took the side of the students while others defended the university while others suggested applying to less prestigious schools. But the overall theme of these letters was one of anxiety - and that is what I focused on in this illustration.
Illustrations to be published alongside a short story about a woman and a man who travel the country selling steroids. The woman takes the steroids herself and looks kinda like a body builder as a result...leaving the guy to look and feel wimpy. Ch Ch Check it out!