Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Maisonneuve Issue 27- Spring 2008


Check out my illustration in the latest Maisonneuve Spring issue 27. Thanks to Anna the Art Director for making this an easy and successful illus.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Monday, April 14, 2008

Reader's Digest..May 2008-Naked Flight-pg.15


Check out the May 2008 issue of Reader's Digest on newsstands everywhere tomorrow. Article Naked Flight page 15 in the Here and Now Column..

It was great working with this client and look forward to continue working with them.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Meet Barry... Character profile for Feathertale


An illustration for a Feathertale "ezine". Barry was created for the character sketch" section.
Read the character profile on the bottom.. Will be illustrating another 4. Look out for them soon.

A CHARACTER SKETCH

. . . in which we meet Barry

By Graeme Millen

It was a warm September day, the kind that turns arm pits into leaky
faucets and forces the obese to replace regular conversation with
heaving panting when I first spotted Barry sitting across from me on
the south-bound #3. His legs were crossed tightly. His pin-striped
euro-chic dress shirt opened 3 buttons below the neck line, allowing
his curled black chest hair to dance along his collar with a pride not
common among most pale skinned men with portly bellies.

A 32-year old phone salesman, Barry labours over his finely plucked
eyebrows and tightly groomed fu Manchu each morning before indulging
in his favourite breakfast -- toast lathered with nutella and mashed
bananas.

He carefully tucks his neatly ironed shirt into his green cargo
shorts. The cargo pockets are full; what with, only Barry is sure, but
I suspect batteries, rubber bands, and Ho Hos. His loose fitting
striped tube socks wrinkle around his ankles as they descend into a
well-used pair of gray New Balance trainers; Velcro of course.

Barry is single. Not that he doesn't like women, it's just they don't
like him -- a fact which has proven problematic to his many sexual
advances since discovering women, along with his first nipple hair, at
age 11.

When not riding the bus, or hocking cell phones to teenage girls at
the local mall, Barry opts for the company of his 74-year old, 4
foot-tall Portuguese mother who, as a result of health problems
brought on from 32-years of packing a lunchbox for her adult son, can
only communicate through pointing and grunting. But Barry knows that
when she grunts and draws her finger across her throat in a slicing
manner, she isn't expressing a maniacal hatred, but telling him in her
own way that she loves him.

Like love itself, sweat-filled buses can sometimes stink. Some days
that stench is enough to repulse; driving you recklessly to the verge
of vomiting from your gut and your heart. But on that warm September
day, riding the #3 with Barry twirling his leg hair across from me, I
was nothing short of aroused.