Recent editorial illustration for Ascent Backcountry Snow Journal. This was for an article on the types of weather patterns that make for bad or even dangerous skiing. In it, the author fantasizes about founding a government agency that would spare no expense in making sure that winter mountains are brought to optimum skiing potential.
Recent illustration for Utah Adventure Journal. The article is about how most people who go to Utah for a job only plan on staying there for a few years before moving on. However, the ones who are into skiing usually end up staying for all the awesome skiing Utah has to offer.
Editorial illustration for an article in FORE Magazine waxing poetic on the greatness of golf.
Latest illustration for Ascent Magazine for an article on the various schools of thought as to what types of music qualify as mountain music.
Editorial illustration I did for Utah Adventure Journal for an article called Cotton Kills, about an avid outdoorsman who is super into wearing his high-tech outdoor gear, even in situations that don’t really require it.
This editorial illustration was for an article about a father, and avid outdoorsman, who felt intimidated by the impressive amount of scrapes and bruises his toddler was accumulating from his activities, while Dad had no such mementos of his own adventures. Was he playing it too safe? Had becoming a dad cost him his outdoorsy edge?
I’m not exactly sure a toddler is old enough to manage a Big Wheel, but I really liked the idea of a toddler dressed like a bad-ass biker.
This month’s Utah Adventure Journal article, Stay In Bed Or Go Mountain Biking, is about the age-old dilemma of wanting to stay in bed versus getting up and doing something productive, in this case, mountain biking with friends. I thought it would be fun to give my illustration a kind of Alice In Wonderland tumbling down the rabbit hole kind of feel. People often fantasize about having a bed that topples them out in the morning so they would be forced to wake up on time, but what if your bed could topple you out right where you needed to be, with all of your things that you needed?
Here’s the digital sketch I did for this illustration. Since I had a lot of items floating around, it was helpful to do my sketch digitally. That way, I could easily move things around and work out a nice flow for everything.
This is the inked version of my illustration. I do all my inking on paper, as I feel I have more control than with my Wacom tablet. Here you can see where I made changes to some of the things floating around, like the shoes and the mountain bike.
Editorial illustration for Utah Adventure Journal. For an article on the drastic changes in weather during late winter/early spring that make planning the appropriate outdoor activity difficult.
This was for an article about a skier whose wife pressures him into observing Dry January with her. If you are like me and have never heard of it before, Dry January was originated in England to challenge people to stop drinking for a month as a way to raise awareness about the health benefits of not drinking too much.
Got inspired to go for a retro video game theme for this one. The article is about an avid skier who “powers up” by eating Granny B’s Original Pink Cookies, and I couldn’t help but be reminded of Super Mario. This is my first attempt at creating pixel art, and I was surprised at how easy and fun it turned out to be.