Op-Ed piece I did on Friday.
I wanted to post after I got back from the SI editorial show but couldn't get to it. I am always so blown away and humbled when I'm standing before such great illustrations, whether it be Tim Obrien's guy with the hat in the rain, or Chris Buzelli's birds ( I know Chris, not your favorite) but stunning to the rest of us, Adam's stamps etc etc. So I'm thinking the whole time that man I gotta stop doing crap and really step it up, vow not to let art directors and more importantly editors push the work somewhere that I don't want it to go. Some of you may do the same thing, once in a while say okay time to re-focus, seek inspiration, make every piece interesting, and fight, refuse to compromise on bad direction, "no I'm not making that change", "not comfortable with that". In the end it is not possible to make every piece a great piece, compromises are made and sometimes you just have to take away a lesson from a less than stellar piece or one that didn't turn out as planned.
With that said, here are a few from the past few weeks, no unreasonable compromises made on these as all the art directors here let me do what we do. Thanks to Patricia, Orly, Leanne and others not represented here. And thanks to all you stellar illustrators who inspire me strive to be among your ranks.
