Ohhhh...bama!

Kessels Kramer has started a big project involving many illustrators from around the world. The project consists of creating a Tapestry which will tell the tale of the current events of our time. The Tapestry consists of black and white illustrations from many different artists depicting a week of the year. This is based off the Bayeux Tapestry which tells the story of the major news events of 1066. I will make a lengthy detailed post about the story and project later on, but I wanted to show you guys the piece! Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize during the week I was illustrating (Week 41) so hurray for getting something important! I have more to write about this later, so stay tuned! (or not, but seriously stay tuned)

This is the first intended original image, until I found out that the format was horizontal not vertical!

For more about the project visit the site here!

Picky,Picky,Picky

This weeks investing feature!: The third quarter earnings in the market are doing great and delivering better than what was expected for investors. Even showing some of the growth that investors were craving but they are not satisfied anymore. They want more, and to top it off they're picky on what they want.

I haven't really done fun characters in awhile, I used to include them all the time in School pieces but strayed away from them to try something new. It was nice to come back and have fun with a character again. The deadline for this was shorter than the last one, in total with the idea it took about 6hrs to crank out. I think sometimes handling things under pressure is a great thing. For me at least I seem to second guess myself less and commit to ideas and decisions better under pressure. Of course though I'd still prefer having a lot of time to do an illustration!

On a side note who saw the Machida vs. Shogun fight? ROBBERY!!!

Buying Bonds, James Bonds.

Here is this weeks Financial Post Investing Feature! There is a current high risk of buying Bonds. Prices for Bonds are really high and interest rates are low. There is a mountain to climb for investors if they really want to invest in bonds.

Lesson of the week: What is a Bond? Bonds are kind of like an IOU. So an investor agrees to loan money to a company. But that money is agreed at a certain interest rate to payback. So with interest rates being low and Bond Prices being high, it's a big risk banking on interest rates to rise.

I'm still exploring a sort of fusion style in my work, which I find actually looks better in print. The turnaround time for this piece was pretty fast, I had to crank this out in less than 4hrs. Although I'd rather spend time on pieces, it's a big learning experience figuring out what you can and can't do in a small amount of time.

Ohger!

I'm happy to announce i'll be apart of the Ohger community! Ohger is run by the same people from Illoz and Drawger. It's a new community site featuring students and recently graduated students.

see my page here!

Sooo that means i'll be also posting on that blog as well. I think I'll be posting more indepth posts on Ohger though!

Features Are Back!: Australia Still Soaring

So after a brief hiatus, the investing illustrations are back! yay! This weekends article is about Australia markets; There has been an amazing record of 17 years of economic growth and still going In Australia. They also have even been able to avoid the latest recession. Comparably China's markets have been strong but really unstable. Australia find themselves jumping past the Chinese and the rest of the emerging Asian markets. The turnaround for this was about a day so it was nice to get right at it!

Here is the illustration in print. I feel really stupid because I never knew about photomerge in photoshop and Nimit had to explain it to me. Wow the power of computers these days, we truly are in the 21st Century!

Area Zinc

I was recently featured in Area Zinc an online magazine. Along with many great photographers, graphic artists, illustrators and Yuta (haha). Thanks to Andres Vargas and the Area Zinc crew!

On a side note I sprained my knee, how do I stretch it??