freshen up!

i have redesigned my portfolio site.

it's (mostly) finished.

click on the pic above to check it out.

Teens In Trouble

...no, not that kind of trouble.

we're talking about working peril, the hazards of on-the-job.

here's a couple of spot illos from a series i did for a teen magazine.


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my mug

i hired a shutterbug--her name is May-Ying, she is a UT student--to take some fancy pants author type shots for me for book publicity and junk.



she did a bang-up job.

hunchback. steve, the hunchback.

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a sketch from a gonzo long winded blog i wrote.

as suggested by chalker.

by request

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Don Imus. A Top Turkey 2007, so says the Fort Worth Star Telegram.

good call, K9.

Top Turkeys of 2007

for the last three years i have illustrated the Fort Worth Star Telegram's Top Turkeys feature.

it's pretty much what it sounds like. they feature the boneheads of the year previous.

on average it's 9-11 illustrations, most of them caricatures, and with a short time, a couple of days to turn them around.

here's a few of 2007's Top Turkeys.

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Britney Spears


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she was the Top Turkey of the year, taking the grand prize.

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Michael Vick


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Larry Craig


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you remember this guy. the senator who got busted in the bathroom for solicitation.

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Fifty Cent


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Fitty was pretty sore when Kanye beat his record sales. didn't quit like he said he was gonna.

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Miss Lohan


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...and while this mostly looks like Lindsey, this illo illustrates the perils of caricature. sometimes it's nailed in the rough comp stage, but loses something in color.

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here's a recently completed editorial illustration.

apparently there are "kid friendly" video websites where kids create all the content.*

in the roughs stage i provided them with an option for the kid diving out of the computer.



this is another one of those illo on the fringes of my "normal" style. (like the steampunk helicopter.)

*i loathe the death of the CRT. flat panel monitors aren't as fun to draw and because of their thinness don't offer as much interactivity opportunities.

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also, i've just completed illustrations for my first international client (i have one in Canada, but, you know, that's still in the Americas), and my first card game.

Haim Shafir is an Israeli game designer. he's been at it for a while and has notoriety in Europe, in his home country, and among the boardgame community.

he loves what he's doing. that's the best kind of client. it made him a pleasure to work with.

(like most of what i am working on, this one's under an NDA, so i can't show you my work just yet. though you might run into him if you're at this month's Toy Fair in NYC. here's his website. here's an interview with him.)