And I hear their pillows are micro-soft…
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Illustration Friday | Internet
My entry for this week’s Illustration Friday challenge is from a cover illustration I did for the Graphic Artists Guild newsletter. The title of the piece is Intertubes, and comes from Senator Ted Stevens’ infamous comment that the internet is a “series of tubes.”
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Snake
Here’s a little something I did initially for the 21 Day Drawing Challenge by Von Glitschka (Day 6: Get Cubistic). I recently picked up the Megapack set of Photoshop brushes from the awesome Kyle T. Webster, and thought this illustration would be a great opportunity for me to play around with them.
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For the Love of Sauna | Ascent
Recent work for Ascent Backcountry Snow Journal on the pleasure of relaxing in a sauna after a long day of backcountry skiing.
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Bigfoot
Awhile back, I attempted to take on the “21 Day Drawing Challenge“, from Lynda.com’s Von Glitschka. I started off quite impressively (You can see my Day 1 drawing here.) but very quickly found myself wanting to use this opportunity to experiment with color and brushes in Photoshop. Which meant that I was going to need to spend a little more time on them. I also had the good fortune of becoming pretty busy with actual paying work within just a few days of starting the challenge. In the end, I’ve decided to settle on turning it into “21 Inspirational Drawing Prompts That You Should Totally Do When You Have A Few Spare Moments.”
The illustrations below are from the day five challenge, which was to draw three different versions of a character (I chose Bigfoot), refining the design each time. Not sure if I “refined” so much as “completely redesigned,” but I had fun and I think at least the first two came out really well.
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TEDx Illustration
I recently had the honor of contributing an illustration to a TEDx talk given in Ireland by client and friend, Dr Cara Augustenborg. Her talk was on the need to shift our focus from dwelling on climate change as a problem to focusing instead on the positive climate action already being taken, and replicating that where we live. I had the task of coming up with a climate puzzle, with each piece representing one of six main areas where we need to take positive climate action. Each piece was then used in Dr Augustenborg’s slide show as an icon for each of these topics.
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You can watch Dr. Augustenborg’s talk here:
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Custom Skis
I recently did an illustration for an article that appeared in Utah Adventure Journal about an outdoor guy, Brian McKenna, with a larger-than-life personality who ended up becoming paralyzed in a bike accident. (You can read the article here.) I found myself moved by the friendship expressed in the article, and resolved to make my illustration live up to such a personality. After the article ran, one of Brian’s friends who was with him in the South American scene I illustrated, asked if he could pay me to use the art to have a custom pair of skis made in Brian’s honor. I was extremely flattered by the request. Not only that, but he was kind enough to share photos of the process of getting his custom skis made by the good folks over at Wagner Custom Skis.
Image is first applied to the wood. 
After cutting to size. 
Final skis with hardware added. 
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Columbusing
New work for Utah Adventure Journal on the art of “discovering” ski gear that everybody else has already been using for a long time and knows all about.
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Ascent Magazine: Visualize World Pow
Latest work for Ascent magazine. The article is about the correct way to pray to Ullr, the Norse god of snow, in order to have a good skiing season.
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Interview with Zooppa
Illustrator Scott DuBar I was recently interviewed by the good folks over at Zooppa.com for the recent work I did for Mike’s HARDER. Check out all the juicy tidbits here: http://blog.zooppa.com/zooppa-featured-member-scott-dubar/
