The Weely Standard- RNC edition

I got the opportunity to do a Weekly Standard cover! I'd heard their deadlines were kinda bonkers and this was indeed brief, but considering I got to draw elephants on a beach, it felt relatively painless.  The AD, Philip Chalk, wanted to mimic a vintage tourism postcard retrofitted for the recent RNC in Tampa, complete with hurricane warnings.
   
Big thanks to Philip for the fun gig, and equally big thanks to Chris Whetzel for helping a brother out and sketching the the convention crowd for me when I was running low on time.

The Jersey Devil

 My good friends, theater trio The Berserker Residents, asked me to produce a set piece for their camp-horror-sideshow "The Jersey Devil."  They needed an arch to frame their stage that kept the tone of the show. That tone being funny, yet dark and oddly entertaining.

The first handful of ideas ran the gamut of very literal scenes from the show to tragic takes on classic fairy tales, to scenes depicting the terrorized denizens of the Garden State.  The final illustrations of doomed circus performers seemed to capture the tone best.

Thanks for reading!
SB

Unlucky Mariners

This was a great assignment for Amanda Wilson at Seattle Business.  Apparently, the Seattle Mariners are the unluckiest team in the major league. And, by the way, their mascot is a moose. Due to my severe lack of sports knowledge, both these bits of info were completely new to me, as was the proper stance for a batter.  Cat silhouettes, however, I could do from my head.

Here are a couple of the runner up ideas for the image (my personal fave being the moose drinking his troubles away)...

A Doubletake

Another peek into my ongoing project.

To the moons, NASA

Fun assignment from Michael Mrak at Scientific American to illustrate the funding cuts in NASA's planetary exploration programs.

I was initially worried that the probe wouldn't read clearly, so i sent a couple other options. These two other sketches were well received but Mrak really dug the original idea.

Waking Prince continued....

A follow-up/addition to/companion of The Waking Prince is in the works. This time as a very cool app for the ipad.  Here are a some peeks into the new artwork that will be included...

 More to show soon. -Scott

Clark Gable sketch