Finished Sula Cover

Cover for Sula by Toni Morrison

Did the ink on a large piece of used vellum while standing in the kitchen waiting for delivery.






Don't know where this is going color-wise but it's off and running.

Sure Obama's more handsome, but I'm way more fascinated with McCain's mug. The wet brush/ink bleed approach I enjoy working in just seemed perfect for his complexion.

Three pieces I did for a proposed photo shoot for Guillermo de Zamacona .

Quick Bubba

UK

I came back from a trip to London and Ireland last week. I definitely feel a little guilty for not doing more on location drawing while I was there. My travel partners appealed to my lazier side and lured me to the pub more than I expected. Nonetheless, it was a great time and here is the ONLY drawing I did while overseas.

Dreams & Miracles

Gilgongo is back. They've finished up their second album "Dreams & Miracles" and once again I've been lucky enough to work on their cover. I had the idea of a parade for a while and pushed them towards this as a wraparound cover design. Their music is quite bouncy and their odd and abusrdist lyrics stay whimsical even when their talking about their darker sides. I wanted the parade to start off in the distance as something malevolent and sort of unintentionally build up into something over-the-top AWESOME!

Kudos to Amy and Sam for playing the carnival barker/emcees of the parade and Ryan for sitting with me and hand picking characters from their lyrics to join in.



The drawing was pieced together in photoshop from individual sketches and then transferred onto artists vellum. The orignal is roughly three feet long so the tracing paper transfer was a bit of a pain. But once everything was in it's right place, I inked it pretty quickly - over about 3 days.



The rest was pretty basic solid photoshop color with minimal layers. I never got to work in this way before and it's simplicity was made it so much fun.

Here's what the cover is going to look like...



Some details...