This is a drawing from the afternoon with Liz Steel from Urban Sketchers and Veronica Lawlor from studio1482. I call this guy, (he doesn’t skate), Martini Man, because “he’s shaken, not stirred.” I drew him with consistent up and down sha ...
I spent some time at Ground Zero Friday. It’s an incredibly powerful place, I imagine unlike any other. The site has been transformed into a city of cranes and construction. I can’t help but think that this is exactly how it must have looked in t ...
Had I hesitated, when the moment struck, this would all be for naught. I would be stuck on the very page I have been staring at for too long. Constantly returning to continue, but finding I am never quite sure where I left off, so I begin all over ag ...
The Communication Arts Illustration Annual is out. I received my copy yesterday and as I reported a few months ago, my reportage series on Times Square has been recognized. I’ve always felt that CA is one of the best publications for illustrators a ...
I had the privilege of attending the Milton Glaser lecture last night at the Society of Illustrators in NY. What struck me most was that I and the members of Studio 1482 approach our work and careers with a very similar philosophy to Mr. Glaser. He s ...
By way of a friend, my wife Despina and I were granted access to reportage a performance at JAZZ at Lincoln Center. An opportunity like this doesn’t come along often so we really went for it. The performance by Wes “Warmdaddy” Anderson, Marc Ca ...
One day last April I took some time off from the Second Avenue Subway drawings (ok, I had lunch first, it was kinda cold out that week). As I sat in my favorite restaurant I got in a quick drawing from within Nicks on the upper east side before headi ...
Got a nice email from Ben over at The Launch Box the other day and realized I never posted this one here. It was the image of the day two weeks ago on Studio 1482s One Drawing A Day site that we started in June. Thanks to HOW for giving us a little m ...
It’s been a couple of months since I have been down to the construction site on Second Avenue and actually since I have been on the blog to see where I left off—promotions and schedules and all sorts of work related stuff. So of course I was surp ...
So, one hundred and one days ago I decided to make the trek down to Washington, DC. Not merely as a supporter but as an artist, reporting on the event. The idea struck me just before the election. This was going to be pretty historic no matter what h ...
I don’t know why I like that phrase so much, I guess it hits me the same way seeing someone who can actually draw does. The phrase obviously, not the hammer. That would just hurt. Which I wouldn’t like. But I do like all the analog connotations i ...
A few months back I was contracted to create preliminary drawings of 10 new spaces within the new home of the New York Mets, Citifield. This is the type of job that doesn’t come along very often. I was given a tour within the new stadium (a privil ...
Over the Thanksgiving weekend I was finally able to get out and do a bit of drawing. I live near the Meadowlands (home of Giants Stadium) and have often driven by the construction of the new stadium, which will open in 2009. Each trip past I was grip ...
Last week Veronica Lawlor and I went down to the Halloween Parade in the Village to make some drawings. We had a great time drawing together! My niece, Alison was also there with her friend, Trinka. It was one wild and crazy costume after anoth ...
As the summer passed and my days escaped me, I noticed that there was a different kind of daily routine to the reworking of the west side of Second Avenue. Having dug up and moved the utilities last fall and into the spring, and then moving to the ot ...
