Magazine Design/Illustration: Owner's Interest

For the last six months or so I have been doing illustration and layout for Showboats magazine. The column that I am responsible for is entitled "Owner's Interest." Each month I supply the magazine with a new illustration of the "Owner" character (as seen here). I am working with a Wacom tablet to push this illustrative style further each month. It is now starting to get very close to how I want it to look. Click the image to take a closer look.

Magazine Design: July 2013

 I liked the dynamic nature of this picture. It really helped sell the issue's "Tenders and Toys" cover line.

Magazine Design: March Cover

I went nuts with this picture on the cover of the March issue of Dockwalk. Originally, it ended just south of the flag's tip. So I had to go into Photoshop, cut out all the clouds, replace them with a blue background and then add a new tip of the flag. All in a day's work for the Main Man!

Magazine Design: Love Me Tender

Sorry. Couldn't help the title. It's one my editors love and use every time a tender feature rears its head. Apparently, I'm no better. Blog header aside, though, I really like the marriage of type with photo that I used in designing this spread.

Magazine Design: Divine Diving

I found some pretty pictures for this feature's opening spread. Cool fish. So cool I couldn't help but pop some of them out in front of the title.

Illustration: Accountant at Work

I drew this little guy for a magazine column about a clueless accountant. I based his doodle-filled notebook on the one I'm currently resting my forearm upon.

Magazine Design: Molecular Manipulation

When you find a cool picture of a molecular strand, you've just got to make it the opener of your feature. At least, that's how I've always felt about it.

Illustration: No Thanks

Mean, skinny, French lady rejecting cake? Yeah. I can draw that.

Magazine Design: February Cover

Here's the cover I designed for the February issue of Dockwalk. You've got to love a Captain in a kilt.

Magazine Design: Onboard Entertainment

I like the type treatment and design I used on this spread. Thought I'd throw it up on the blog here for future reference.

Magazine Design/Illustration: Boxers

No art? No problem. That's what I tell my editor's these days. They presented me with this feature about who is really in charge on a yacht: the owner or the captain. I sketched up about six ideas, but was glad they went with this first one, as I am a big fan of boxers. And I think that shines through in my savagely cartoonish illustrations.

Magazine Design: Refit

A surprising amount of path cutting to get this image to look right. But worth it. I like how "The Snowball Effect" sits behind all the scaffolding.

Illustration: Shih Tzu's Delight

Here's an illustration that I did for a story about a woman who ends up getting covered in strawberry smoothie after her Shih Tzu knocks it out of her server's hand.

Ad: The World Superyacht Awards

In addition to layout and illustration, I also spend a lot of time designing ads. This is one such advertisement for the World Superyacht Awards in London.

Magazine Design/Illustration: Taxman

I feel like every time I turn around, my editors have got me working on some tax-related article. Which is always a nightmare because the magazine is international.  And that means I can't exclusively use dollar graphics. Nor can I exclusively use  euro graphics. So this art deco-inspired illustration was just what the doctor ordered.

Illustration: Bee

Here's a swarm of friendly bees. One of them will be used used by a client on their new business card.

Magazine Design: January Cover

Here's my design for the January issue of Dockwalk.

Magazine Design/Illustration: Prejudice

No photographs could do this story about prejudice in the yachting industry justice. That's where my illustrations come in.

Illustration: A Fine Performance

I like the gesture I gave to this engineer singing into his toothbrush for the security camera. What I didn't like? Having to draw the engine room in the background. So many parts...

Magazine Redesign: Table of Contents

I tried to keep the redesigned Table of Contents as light and airy as possible.