NEW ILLUSTRATION UPDATES

This is a full page illustration for Military Officer Magazine. The image was done for the magazine's Essay Contest Feature. I decided to focus on one of the essays that talked about American citizens taking their "freedom" for granted and having little to no intentions of giving back to their country. While my personal point of view differs on so many levels, I thought it would be fun to draw Uncle Sam. Referencing the famous Uncle Sam poster, I had him reaching out to the viewer rather than pointing at the viewer.

These were the initial sketches I submitted. I was hoping for the sketch in the mirror, but the editors thought otherwise. I usually have a scribbled write up of my idea underneath each sketch that I submit, so don't mind the poor font choice or the obnoxious capitalized fonts. This was for ESPN Magazine. Upon completion of these three illustrations, the project was killed. I still had a blast working on these, so I thought I'd share them. It was for a new section of the magazine titled Advice Squad. Essentially, it is a more fleshed out versions of a Q&A section within the magazine. I picked discussions that focused around how geeky guys can get the girl and choosing healthy fast food.

Lastly, I will have a full page in the upcoming WORKBOOK. :D

Thanks for visiting,

-Tin

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, MY LOVE!

It's been a year since we "met". My beautiful beba girl. Happy anniversary to my lovely and gorgeous fiance Ameenah! :)

Our memory box! From me to you! :)

Very First edition of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (to my beba):

And the most awesomest red, vroom-vroom in the world from my beba:

LUCK OF THE DRAW II OPENING RECEPTION

Hello Friends! Here are a few photos from last nights opening reception of the LUCK OF THE DRAW II exhibition.

enjoy! :)

CREATIVE QUARTERLY ( CQ21 ) WINNER!

Hello again everyone! I received an e-mail today from Jessica Quiñones,the Production Assistant & Show Coordinator of Creative Quarterly, The Journal of Art & Design. I was announced as one of the winners of the professional illustrators section. Not only that, but two more pieces, one of them being a photograph, were runner ups and will be exhibited in the runner up gallery. The winning entry, which you can see below, will be exhibited in Issue 21 coming out in December 2010.

This is the WINNING piece:

These are the two runner ups:

The photograph above was taken in Tokyo, Japan the summer of 2008. It was a scene from Jackie Chan's latest movie: Shinjuku Incident. Those of you that have seen the movie will recognize this scene immediately. It is towards the end of the film where the the detective is running after the injured Jackie as he enters the sewers.

Thanks for visiting!

-Tin

LUCK OF THE DRAW II Exhibition

Hello everyone. My apologies for the lack of updates. I am swamped with work and have not been able to format my images for the web yet. Between working on several illustrations for a flash animation, a graphic novel for scholastic, my long terms project The Spark and several editorials per week, it becomes difficult to stay consistent with my blog updates. :)

In other news, I will have several sketchbook pieces in the LUCK OF THE DRAW II exhibition this Thursday at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. Other participating artists include Pam Anderson, Robert Meganck, Louis Poole, Diego Sanchez and Noah Scalin.

LUCK OF THE DRAW II

A success in October 2009, Luck of the Draw II returns September 23 to once again combine opportunity and art in a fun game of chance while raising funds to support the Center. The event costs nothing to attend, but every ticket holder wins an unframed work on paper that has been donated by a local artist. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the “drawing” starts at 7:00 p.m. with Harry Kollatz Jr. serving as MC. The “luck of the draw” determines the order in which each ticket holder ($100 per drawing) will have a turn to select his or her piece. Two-dimensional works will span the gamut from drawings to photographs to collages, but you won’t know who did what, because each work will be signed only on the back.

I hope to see you guys there! :)

I found a bit of time to scan in a few of my sketchbook drawings that I did in between the projects; enjoy!

And here is the very first page of THE SPARK. This is a shot of Sarajevo in the early 1900's. This will be the last page I will publicly share for a while until most of it is finished.

Thanks for visiting!!

-Tin