The New Republic

I recently had the opportunity to work with the always wonderful Christine Car at The New Republic on this illustration for an article about the problem with the new full body security scanners. Aside from being an invasion of personal privacy, they don't always pick up concealed explosives.

Politics and the Oscars

8x13", graphite, ink, and digital

Hey guys. This is a spot illustration for an article about how the Academy nominated movies this year are movies with reduce the political to the personal, and drain out the greater contexts of the stories of history.

I tried out a lot of new things I've been looking at in this piece, and it felt like "shoot from the hip" art. I'm wavering about how much I like it. I think that it's a good and effective illustration, but I don't know if this way of working is a good fit for me.

Initial sketches