5 editorial spot illustrations and their initial sketches, for an article on nurturing healthy kids mentally & physically from the very beginning!

Some spots for a Teaching Tolerance Magazine article on the myth that school uniforms are good for kids and their school environment.

Need to catch up on posting some recent work, here is a job for the Improper Bostonian about a young persons experience on a cruise. I've never been on a cruise, so I learned about many cruise things. Like those towel animal things. And that you can buy a book on how to make those animals, but its only for sale on the ship!  Below is a spot that shows those creepy little towel animal things.

Still recovering from the PA One Book tour. Lots of amazing memories and photos to sort through. Also, just gettting back into the swing of working in the studio. This is a detail for a job for Cottage Life about Pet Mishaps on your family vacation.

Some spots for Baltimore Magazine an article on the Best jobs and careers to have in this crappy economy.  (L to R) Hair Stylist, Advertising Exec, Personal Trainer, Programmer, Lawyer, and CEO Not exactly surprising is it? Wait a minnit?! I'm none of these!

What?! Your kid doesn't speak Mandarin?! New piece for the Nov ish of Philly Mag. Check out the article here. First person to correctly guess/translate what this little girls is asking gets a prize...yeah I know, another contest.

I submitted these three sketches and I was kind of hoping they would go for the top one. They loved the playground theme and the horse was a good link to the Catcher cover but they were afraid that the Wimpy Kid connection was lost. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is partly written and part cartoon with some very styled stick figurish people. They wanted something that looked more like the Wimpy Kid style so it was back to the drawing board. It is very strange to copy someone elses style of drawing and I struggled to figure out a way of integrating everything. Finally the solution was making the Wimpy Kid exactly like he is in the book and not integrating him with the background at all. Kind of like a sticker stuck on an old book. A challenging assignment but a fun outcome.

 Here are a couple preliminary sketches.