Wetlands Threat

This illustration was created for the cover of Lawrence.com. The story is about how the city of Lawrence plans on building a highway through the Baker Wetlands thus destroying the ecosystem and also some sacred Native American sites. There are several environmental and historical groups that are protesting the build, however the city seems very determined to see this thing built. I've been focusing more on keeping the message of my images as clear and simple as possible. I tried with this one to make a final image that could work as both a large, full color illustration, but also be easily reduced into a black and white spot. It helps me to think in these terms so that I keep things economical and don't get carried away with unnecessary details.

White Stripes

The second I saw the outfits worn by Jack and Meg on their new album "Icky Thump" I knew that I wanted to do an image of them. I went through a lot of different sketches to come up with the final design and finally decided on one that put Meg in the foreground. I think that Jack is a big enough symbol to read without much detail in the background. The image was drawn with pencil on bristol and then scanned and painted in photoshop. I also experimented with scanning in different paper textures to create a more old parchment feel to the final illustration.