Occupy Wall Street for The Indypendent

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Not very Halloweeny, but I thought I'd let you ASOPers know I'm not dead. Or maybe I'm undead. Thanks to Frank Reynoso for Art Direction.

Summer of Love

Hey everyone, I'm new here. My name is Mike. I've seen a lot of your work, and I'm glad to finally contribute myself. Thanks to Chogrin for the invite.

Here's a recent drawing done in anticipation of the upcoming Phillies season. There's been a lot of hyperbole about how good four of their starting pitchers will be this year, so with a very good season potentially in the offing (despite some injuries since this drawing's completion), there are a lot of us who grew up with Mike Schmidt Starting Lineup action figures hoping for a Summer of Love in south Philadelphia. Enter the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, which served as a soundtrack for that summer of 1967, and whose cover served as the basis for this drawing.

I'm available at my website, my blog, and I goof on Twitter. Cheers.

Set of illustrations for Q magazine...

Cheers, hope you like them...:D! Best, Choper.

Spot for the Indypendent: "Value Added Teacher Evaluations"

Spot for the Indypendent/NYC Independent Media Center: "Value Added Teacher Evaluations", an article exploring the consequences of attributing falling test scores to individual educator performance

and the faulty protocol used to assess them.

 

Indypendent

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.

art for the indypendent

heres a spot illustration i did for the indypendent, the same issue tim did the cover for. this is for a book review about global warming, the writer wanted a image of a flower child hugging a nuclear power plant which i then drew.

Watch that last step..

11.75x12", graphite/digital

Hey guys. Just wanted to share a cover image I did for the Indypendent. It's been a while since I've done a piece for them, but it's hard to turn down the chance for a cover. The main focus in this issue is disillusionment with Obama's first year in office. They approached me looking for a Messianic portrayal of Obama, but a faulty one. I gave them a few options, but they went with Sketch 3 and asked me to make it a bit more dynamic. In any case, looking forward to seeing the piece in print. Enjoy!

Sketches

Sustainable During the Holidays

I have been very fortunate, to be doing some editorial illustration lately. Most recently, I did a piece for Art Director, Jamie Leary over at Philadelphia's very own, GRID Magazine. I remember before class during my senior year at the University of the Arts, going to last drop coffee house on 13th and pine, getting some joe, and grabbing this free magazine. It was a good way to start the morning to enlighten myself on different sustainablity issues that come to people who are more environmentally conscience.

When I got the email and accepted the job, the article was pretty clear. The author, wrote about being tempted to spend a lot of money during the holidays that put aside living sustainable. It acted as a reminder that the holidays weren't about spending a lot of money on gifts but the togetherness of the holiday.

There was a clear metaphor in the article in using a tire wheel as a 21st century version of a advent wreath, with candles and greens. Originally, peasants made Advent wreath's, during the medieval times using the front wheel of a wooden wheel barrel to wrap flowers, greens and candles. I thought a bike tire would be a better image since Philadelphia is a huge bike city and more symbolic of sustainable living. The problem that happens sometimes being an illustrator is getting a great idea to quickly. It seems to good to be true and you hesitate on coming up with other solutions to the visual problem. I pushed through and submitted other sketches that acted as a gradient from concrete idea's to more abstract idea's/artistically liberal approaches that could of loosily told the story of the article. Below were the sketches presented.

Jamie ended up choosing the advent wreath image, which was a relief. So I went out and started drawing the image...

Final Image

I want to thank, Jamie Leary for contacting me to create a piece of artwork for GRID magazine. It was truly a pleasure working for them. The free printed magazine hits stands/coffee shops Yesterday, and the digital copy is already online to view for free.

Tear Sheet

o-fishel.com

Naked City Illustrations.

To my pleasure, a rumor that has been circling for quite some time, has recently materialized. I now have a weekly illustration section in the paper's Naked City section. Every week around Thursday, all I receive is a word or a subject heading, and I am allowed to create what I want from that. I have decided that these illustrations should be more an exercise: Fast, loose, and varied. The writer seems to appreciate the collage style more, but its out of his hands. That is, unless he completely hates it. We all answer to someone eventually, I guess. These are the four I have done so far.

Please check my site for much more crap.

The Indypendent!

New illustration I did for the cover of the Indypendent's current issue, dealing with 'hydro-fracking' and how it might be polluting NYC's water. If you live in NYC, you can pick it up from a few places for free! They're listed on the website!

Hey guys!

Hey everyone, this is my first post on here! I felt a need to post because I've been working on my new illustration website for the past week and it is finally finished! Take a look here if you like. Anyway I just graduated from uarts in philly with a BFA in illustration, and for now I am waitressing and painting for fun, until i get real jobs! Here's some samples of my work! Keep up the good work everyone.

Along with doing work that could be categorized as editorial, I also enjoy painting and making custom toys!

Swine flu originates in corrupt Mexican city - innocent townspeople silently suffer

Hey dudes. This is an illo I just did for the Indy, illustrating an article about the origins of swine flu. Apparently some really corrupt stuff has been going on, and it's the innocent people in Mexico that are first to suffer.

Hope everyone is doing well, enjoying the warm coming on. I have been sick as a dog, myself.

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Published: The War Resisters League

This is a quick set up of the publication, of an illustration, for an article I did for the winter 2009 / vol. 26 of WIN magazine (The Magazine of the War Resisters League). The article talks about Capitalism's burning house and how we're getting hurt by it. I have to thank my brother Matt Cavanaugh for the heads up on this one. Also, check out the awesome cover by Daniel Fishel.

WWW.WARRESISTERS.ORG/WIN

To view the full illustration go to my black & White (editorial) section on my blog. I'm planning on retouching and editing parts of it for a more "final" look.

Cheers!

"Asia: The Coming Fury" Spot

10x14", Pencil, ink, & digital

Hi everybody. This is another spot for the Indypendent. The article was about how poor economics in our country are taking a tole on Asian countries whose economy is derived from the production and export of goods made for sale in the western world (ie, "made in china"). The article made mention of the strife that's happening as a result of these massive factory layoffs, and warned of more violence to come.

The idea came from the dragon closely defending and gripping onto the factory, with a threat of danger in its eye. I actually spent a day showing a progression of this piece to groups of elementary school students as a favor to a friend of mine who teachers computer science. The idea was to show the kids how I use the computer as a tool in my work, as a follow up to their recently completed assignments in the Gimp (which is like a freeware Photoshop?). It was a little odd to talk to kids about this kind of stuff, but their enthusiasm and questions were really fun to field. With the exception of the 8th grade. Yeah, they really didn't care.

PS- always fun to do dragons. The below are sketches for the piece.

Failing to Cool the Meltdown

He better get new shoes

Our good friend Matt Cavanaugh sent me an email asking if I wanted to take on a piece for WIN Magazine. He sent me the article, I read through it, and sent an email to Clare, their A.D./editor with a portfolio attachment. I got the go to work on sketchs, and was told that she was rushed for deadline since everything was due to go to print on february 2nd. I pretty much did the sketchs one day and went to final the following. It was a fun assignment.

The article I tackled dealt with how the government since 1945 went in and out of recessions and with each recession came casualties due to job loss, ect. I tried to show how the government failed or was so disorganized in the way it operated that it needed to come back and see it was just hurting itself. She chose the second sketch since, they print black and white and it fits the article the strongest. Below are the sketchs I sent.

Enlarged Sketches

Spot for the Indypendent

4x6", red pencil and digital

Hey guys. I got the chance to work with the Indypendent on an article called Obama and Executive Power. The main point was that Obama is taking on an office that has seen a vast expansion of its powers and asked how he will handle it- whether to use them or return the executive branch to its former status. It was a quick little job that was fun to do, so here's hoping I get another chance to do so.

Initial Sketches

The Miami Herald

Here's the finished illustration for the Herald. There's going to be a headline or some text on the large bubble in the front, which their designer with add to the piece.

The Miami Herald

I usually don't post thumbnails, but here's what I've been working on for The Miami Herald. It's a spot illustration for their business section, which is about some of the problems in the economy right now. I'll post the finish in a few days.

New Editorial Work

10 Portraits for Penton Media. Larger versions will be available at http://www.chris-whetzel.com/ next week.

Enjoy the Day,

Chris

Recent work from Chris Whetzel (www.chris-whetzel.com)

Chris is a freelance illustrator working in two styles to offer flexibility and unlimited creativity. Below are samples of artwork commissioned in May and June of 2008.

Crisis Magazine editorial about sexism in the hip-hop industry:

Bloomberg Markets editorial about Asian stock market regulators:


Cleveland SCENE editorial calendar week's "Sexiest Bull Rider," an event involving a lady's night, open bar, and a mechanical bull:
Promotional Non-commissioned Artwork:If you would like to see more, please check out www.chris-whetzel.com. As always, commissions, thoughts, and comments are appreciated. Thank you.

Enjoy the Day,
Chris