Posts Tagged ‘78 magazine’

  • skin

    “Skin”

    There’s a somewhat long and slightly interesting story behind this image. Interesting if you’re me, that is. It is a redo of an illustration I had done years prior for a magazine I was the art director of, 78 Magazine. The original image was a black-and-white graphite drawing for the cover of an issue that focused on skin (dubbed “The Skin Issue”) and its importance in culture, medicine, etc. At the time I was merely [...]

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    August 19th, 2006 | Posted in Art Comments, Illustration, Illustration Comments, Prints | No Comments

  • 78_urban

    “Urban Legends”

    This was an illustration featured in 78 Magazine’s big comeback issue for a story about urban legends. It was actually somewhat difficult to think of an urban legend to illustrate, but I eventually settled on this iconic one. But even then, I remember going through several sketches representing the story of the woman with the maniac killer in her back seat. Trying to convey the moment of him reaching up with the knife with the [...]

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    March 3rd, 2006 | Posted in Illustration, Illustration Comments | No Comments

  • 78_authority_cover

    “Question Authority”

    A cover image for 78 Magazine, done back when I was merely a staff illustrator. The theme of the issue was “Question Authority,” and I came up with a number of sketches that explored that concept. This one was everyone’s favorite, and we even put up extra money so that we could have the color red for printing (it was a black and white publication). Like most every other hip artist on the planet, I’ve [...]

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    October 19th, 2004 | Posted in Illustration, Illustration Comments | No Comments