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.
Tag: Utah Adventure Journal
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Toddler Intimidation | Client: Utah Adventure Journal
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.
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Stay In Bed Or Go Mountain Biking? | Utah Adventure Journal
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.
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Don’t Rush The Seasons | Utah Adventure Journal
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.
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Dry January | Utah Adventure Journal
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.
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A Good Outdoor Dog | Utah Adventure Journal
Illustration for an article about the loss of the writer’s beloved outdoor companion. While I was looking up photo references for one of the hiking trails mentioned in the article (which I obviously ended up not using!), I happened across a photo of the author and his dog. My initial idea was to draw more of an “everydog” type of dog, but after seeing the photos of Jared and his fallen buddy, I thought it would be nice to recreate her likeness.
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Epic Sit
Latest illustration for Utah Adventure Journal about the joys of sitting for a beer after thoroughly exhausting oneself from adventurous outdoorsy activity.
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It Always Snows When I Leave Town
Did this spot illustration for Ascent Backcountry Snow Journal just before going on vacation, and realized I forgot to post it. This was for an article on a ski-lover’s knack for going out of town to do some other outdoor activity (biking, kayaking, etc.) and missing out on fresh snowfall on his hometown mountains where he loves to ski.
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Priorities, Powder, and Pee-pee
For an article on the challenge of balancing fatherhood with a love of skiing.
