Sorta "New" Illustration

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For the people who have followed my work for a while the above illustration will look familiar. This piece was based on the original sketches for my painting "Guilty Pleasures". When my style changed a lot of my favorite illustrations were edited out of my portfolio. This is my way of putting this one back in.
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C.S Lewis & Illustration: Part 6, The Apostate

I decided to go in a different direction starting with this illustration. In the last two illustrations I stayed close to the book's description of Heaven and Hell. With the characters I am going to be more conceptual in my approach to show more of the personality of the people from Hell.

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"Having allowed oneself to drift, unresisting, unpraying, accepting every half-conscious solicitation from our desires, we reached a point where we no longer believed the Faith."- C.S Lewis, The Great Divorce

In this illustration "The Fat Ghost" has a conversation with an old friend that reveals his true nature. We learn that he was once a religious scholar but after a long career of writing about religion and theology from different viewpoints for the applause of people he lost his faith. At this point he has a lot of knowledge but no real belief system of his own.

 

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C.S Lewis & Illustration Part: 5.5

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I decided to go in a different direction for the next illustration. It was nice carving the lino again.

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C.S Lewis & Illustration Part: 5

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In part 4 we left off at the beginning of the story in Hell. This illustration is of the traveler's arrival at the outskirts of Heaven.

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C.S Lewis & Illustration Part: 4

Its been awhile since my last post from the C.S Lewis & illustration series.  So as a reminder I'm doing a series of illustrations based on "The Great Divorce" by C.S Lewis The book is about a group of people from Hell who are given the opportunity to take a bus trip to Heaven and the option to stay there if they are willing to give up the one thing that caused them to go to Hell in the first place.

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This first illustration is from the beginning of the novel. Hell is described as a town where it is always raining and the residents are always irritated.

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Feature In The College for Creative Studies Viewbook

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Recently I was honored to be featured in the College for Creative  Studies Viewbook, a promotional item used for recruting new students. The feature included my piece "Caged Bird" illustration and pictures of my early work as an undergrad at the school and a photo of me in the book & poster that is included with it.
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Death Of A Hard Drive

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Soon after Steve Jobs (founder of Apple) died I started having major problems with my hard drive and eventually it just died, so while people were making "RIP Steve Jobs" posters and designs, I was looking for iMac parts. But I used that tragic event to upgrade my computer and learn a lot about repairing my iMac.

Anyways, the time has come for me to catch everyone up with the work I have been doing so I will be posting a lot more often for a while.

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