Trawling For Bargains

"Trawling For Bargains"

Financial Post:April 24th 2010

This weeks illustration for the Financial Post Investing Feature. With the global rally of stocks in the past year. Some stocks have become overpriced, however there are still many bargains to be found that have been ignored.

In Print!

This week I had the pleasure to see the 09/10' Sheridan Illustration graduate show in Toronto. It was really cool to be a "graduate" and see all the great work that was up. It made me think, wow..it's been a year already since I have been out of school. There is that old cheesy saying that time fly's, and it always holds true. I started thinking since a year has passed what have I learned? This year has been such a roller coaster that I never really thought what I learned from it. I'll post one thing a week because I don't want the post to be extremely long. Also keep in mind these are things I'm learning and will always be throughout my life.

#1) Never Give Up: One thing that I know but often do not tell myself is "you can do it". More often then not, there were times this year where I would truly feel like giving up. Sometimes you put hard work into something and many times you get nothing back in return. We feel cheated that we put in all this effort only to be letdown. But thats just life, it owes you nothing. True success is not how many times you succeed, but how many times you climb back up from failure. I assure anyone, hard work and determination will always prevail in the end. If you truly love something you will stick with it. Dreams do come true, but only if you work to make it true. You only have to tell yourself that "you can do it".

More to come next week!...

Catch Up

"Catch Up"

Financial Post:April 10th 2010

First off I want to start by saying I really do hope at least one Toronto sports team makes the playoffs...cough cough Raptors. Secondly, the weather outside today was so beautiful that I bought a new book to read and soak up the sun! "The Midwich Cuckoos" by John Wyndham. Brian Cronin illustrated the set of Wyndham's novels, and they are really quite eerily beautiful. You can see them all in his site here under the category books.

Ooooo mystery.

This week's illustration for Financial Post is about Mexico. No it's not about Spring Break unfortunately, but equally exciting is it's Market value! hurray? Mexico lately has been receiving a new flow of wealth rebounding with the U.S in the post-recession period. That is a great thing considering all the violence that has been plaguing Mexico this past year.

I really liked the layout.

I went back to using a pen for line work just to try it out again and really had fun with it. I used my Pilot Pens for the line work on vellum and digital for coloring. I really am pleased on how it turned out.

Lastly! If anyone is interested in doing a mailer/print trade email me at contact@juansolon.com and we can arrange something! I really want to fill my wall with everyones wonderful work.