Travel Poster

Art Deco Savannah travel poster

I was asked to submit an idea for the cover of Connect Savannah's "Best of Savannah" issue. I'm not sure where it came from, but I had this idea to try to mimic or pay homage to art deco travel posters. I've always been a big fan of Joseph Binder, an Austrian poster artist from the 30s and 40s. More recently I've really been digging the work of Tavis Coburn. The Connect decided to go a different direction, but I kept working on the idea because it's kind of a new direction for me and taught me a lot of new techniques. You can see the results above.

Human Surveillance

So, I've been here for a little over a month now. The rest of my junk arrived a few days ago from Savannah. Now I can get settled in a little better. Now that the weather is nice, I'm biking around and getting to know the city. Should have an illustration of the University of Texas Tower done pretty soon to post. In the meantime, check out Human Survey. My friends Bob and Skip are doing a sort of anthropological photography project, taking hundreds of portraits of random people on the street (including yours truly, see above).

John Muir

John Muir portrait vector

For the past couple days I've been watching the Ken Burns documentary "The National Parks: America's Best Idea." A lot of time is spent on 19th Century naturalist John Muir, who lived an absolutely fascinating life. He also had a pretty interesting look, so I got inspired to do a portrait, continuing the hairy/brush tool trend.

Hair apparent.

Another project to keep myself busy during downtime at home. Many months ago Eric Prine of world famous Attic Fire Photography took a few pictures of me with his super-hi-res-I'm-a-real-professional camera. I've been fascinated with how detailed the images are, seeing every individual hair and pore (if I had known, I would've shaved properly). I've also been interested in translating that detail into an illustration. So, voila. Self portrait.

Keeping Busy

Yesterday I took a drive out to Austin's Pennybacker Bridge to take photos because I knew it would make a great illustration. People often ask me how long it takes to do one of these. Usually I don't know what to say because I work on them in shifts, shelving them for weeks and coming back to them when the mood strikes me. Well what you're looking at here took me exactly five hours. I know that because I literally did nothing else when I got home from taking the pictures (no internet at home makes Jeff a bored boy). Here's a zoom: