Every time I Come Around Your City Bling Bling

Hey heeey heeeyy, here is two new pieces for the Financial Post. The illustration above is about how oil is the new gold. Investors infatuation with gold for almost half a decade could be over. Gold's price fumbles while Oil drives forward.More here.


The next piece was from the week before. The illustration was about how the recent Chinese inflation is really nothing to worry about.

The chain piece has a more developed line drawing than the Dragon piece. I would say a more realistic line drawing, but that sounds like I'm full of myself...SOOO I'll say developed. Anyways where was I...oh yeah (why am I typing this). It's not like I want to totally get rid of my cute fun characters, I'm just at that weird point where I wanna try to draw a different way. However I still love to do my fun whimsical style.



In other news Stephanie Glaros was kind enough to write a blogpost about me on the UTNE Arts section on my Twitter piece. Check it out here! I left my toolbar on the screenshot for fun, who can name all the icons?!

2011: I Wanna Stay Fly-y-y-y-y-y-y-y

Hey everyone, heres my first post of the New Year with an illustration from UTNE Reader and Financial Post!

The first image above is from UTNE Reader. The article was about how twitter moods reflect how the stock market is doing. So when Twitter optimism is high the stock market would ride high with it as well. I wanted to do a image that echoed the fail whale image when twitter is down. Thanks to Stephanie for the fun project!

Here is the image in print.

Above is the last illustration I did for FP in 2010. I was fortunate enough to illustrate for the front cover of Financial Post for before the New Year as well as the inside! The illustration was about riding fast into 2011. The left image was used for the front and the right for the inside. I was really excited, since this was the first time I illustrated the front of FP.

My last post I explained I'm trying to do a little more developed line work. I tried that more with the horse illustration and was really pleased how it turned out considering drawing horses was a big challenge for me. However I still love doing my fun cartoon style characters like the one with UTNE Reader. I thought the fun tone of the project needed that style of character. I'm always trying to find ways to merge things I have done and want to do in my work, and hopefully I'll discover new things this year.

More to come soon, 2010 has been a wild ride and I wish everyone an amazing 2011!