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Work Showcase: Barry Orkin
WORK SHOWCASE: Barry Orkin This week, the Directory of Illustration highlights work from Barry Orkin, represented by António Adrião Artist Representative (AAARep). THE WORK Illustrator: Barry Orkin Client: Our Gal Productions LLC Name of the Book: Stoker and Wells Agent: AAA Rep ABOUT THE WORK: This is the back cover for a graphic novel that Barry co-created with writer Steven Peros called Stoker and Wells. Stoker and Wells is the “true” story of how Bram Stoker and H.G. Wells met in London is 1890. [...]
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Bubbles and Wormholes
I've seen enough science fiction to know that time travel energy is always blue. More like science FACT. A couple recent examples, for Scholastic's Storyworks: A time traveler meets the inventor of [...]
Delicacy
Boom. Another week, another challenge met.
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
Much as I enjoy drawing pretty people, grotesques are so fun to do. Best of both worlds in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story illustrated for SCOPE Magazine. Youth is apparently wasted [...]
a new year in monster drawing
I spent the holiday break thinking of ways to incorporate more monsters into artwork for 2012. This is one!
vampire dreams
A couple weeks ago, I had a dream about vampires employed as corporate assassins. It was pretty neat. In it, I met this little girl and we had a deep [...]
ceremony
This was featured at a pop-up gallery in LA as part of promotion for Universal's Snow White & The Huntsman movie. It's sort of a stream of consciousness piece. You [...]
ceremony
This was featured at a pop-up gallery in LA as part of promotion for Universal's Snow White & The Huntsman movie. It's sort of a stream of consciousness piece. You [...]
The Spirit of Vengeance and Hirsute I & II, sketches
A seed that had been planted earlier in the year finally came to fruition and I moved on down to LA a few weeks ago. It's probably the newness of [...]
Hirsute I, painted.
Been awhile! Here's the first of a few things I've been working on lately.
Spectrum 20
This year's Spectrum judges deemed this image worthy of inclusion. Pretty awesome to be included again, looking forward to seeing the book! ...and the book is available here {ahem} https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-waking-prince/id582084676?mt=8
More leaked zombie pics
Hitting crunch time on this, here are a couple newly finished illustrations for A Brain Is For Eating. Enjoy!-S
Illustration Friday- Egg
You've got to be careful about which eggs you pick to paint!
Scientific American’s Skeptic column
Scientific American has a great skeptic column, usually dedicated to the various ways the human brain can malfunction and create one effect or another. There are great illustrations that go [...]
Illustration Friday- Eye Glasses
The most excellent Captain Thaddeus Lorgne (owner of the largest spectacles on the seven seas) for Illustration Friday. Also as a reminder, the children's book app series 3 Red Birds [...]
3 Red Birds- Free for a limited time!
Big news everyone! For a limited time only, the children's book app 3 Red Birds is available for free on the itunes app store! So if you were wondering what [...]
Illustration Friday- Yesterday
I do really love the style of the 1920's- interesting fashion, all that delicious art deco and of course, cute hats.
Illustration Friday- Talent
True Bremen Talent! Also testing out a new way of doing things for Illustration Friday- ink and watercolor sketchbook illustrations. Because as much as I favor my usual method of [...]
Don’t Text and Drive poster
A redo of an earlier "No texting while driving" poster of mine. The illustration was given a retro feel to it.The car in the rear windscreen is a Triumph Herald, [...]
On the Mediterranean in a Riva boat.
I love the look of Riva boats, and wanted to illustrate one in a Mediterranean setting on a late warm August afternoon.
Needles and Artifice: More Reviews!
Some more lovely reviews have come in for the delightful knitting book Needles and Artifice (created by the Ladies of Mischief, of which I was the main illustrator). There's one [...]