Sorrow and The River of Life. I think I may do a series of pages on biblical paradoxes... or as Tim Keller calls them, apparent contradictions.
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Sorrow and The River of Life. I think I may do a series of pages on biblical paradoxes... or as Tim Keller calls them, apparent contradictions.
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A new drawing from church - a few Sundays back, just finished it.
... and a drawing of two esteemed fellow illustration professors at Wash U. Meetings are amazing!
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Sorrow and The River of Life. I think I may do a series of pages on biblical paradoxes... or as Tim Keller calls them, apparent contradictions.
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... and a drawing of two esteemed fellow illustration professors at Wash U. Meetings are amazing!
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This package was for the amazing magazine, Scientific American, about the Nobel Prize winners in Physics. I've worked with them several times and have loved the abstract challenge of the assignments, in this case, how to draw quantum mechanics and astrophysics!
Instead of focusing on the non visual concepts like the Higgs Boson Particle and other phrases I'd only use to sound smarter than other dummies, I turned to the idea of discovery or uncovering the hidden. "Seeing" is an easier visual concept than quantum chromodynamics.
Each section header got a half page banner to introduce the categories of discovery.
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For this project, I built a shallow relief diorama and tried to shoot it with a camera, but couldn't get enough sharpness and the color correction was tough. I ended up scanning these and adjusting... though I do like the deeper shadows on the one I photographed, below. Will keep fooling around with this and call Red Nose Studio for advice.
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on 5/7/2012
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 David Saylor, from Scholastic, contacted me to be a part of a collaborative children's book that follows the song America the Beautiful. 15 artists were asked to do one spread, each given a stanza of the song along with a famous presidential quotation. My image is the closing to the book and the final stanza, ...from sea to shining sea. Also on the page is George H.W. Bush's famous quote This is America, a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. Other artists in the book include Raul Colon, Mary GrandPre (of Harry Potter Fame) Jon J. Muth and many others. Really fun to be included in this round up. Won't be out till next year, but don't worry, I'll remind you to buy it in bulk when it comes out.
 
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After a few edits, here is the final version of the Dangerous Waters cover. The author pointed out that the fourth smoke stack on the Titanic was entirely decorative! So, no smoke could have come out of it. So a little photoshop surgery was all it needed. Plus, they wanted the skull removed from the moon, too scary! Next stop, bookstores everywhere.
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on 4/24/2012
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 The amazing kid lit blog 7 Impossible Things Before Breakfast has a long profile on my work, go check it out here. A small sample of the kind of information you might learn there:  * * * The Pivot Questionnaire * * * Jules: What is your favorite word? John: Phonetically: “Sequoia” or “Ticonderoga.” Conceptually: “Agape.” Jules: What is your least favorite word? John: “Moist.” Jules: What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? John: I like sitting in churches during the daytime — to enjoy the stained glass windows. Jules: What turns you off? John: Left-over clear tape on glass and people who see everything through a political lens (of either party). Jules: What is your favorite curse word? (optional) John: I take the Fifth. Jules: What sound or noise do you love? John: Coins jingling in a pocket. Jules: What sound or noise do you hate? John: Fingernail-clipping while riding the subway. Jules: What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? John: DRUMMER IN A WEEZER COVER BAND! Jules: What profession would you not like to do? John: Anything that would require me to get up before 7 a.m. Jules: If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? John: “Well done, good and faithful servant.” 
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on 4/18/2012
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 Just finished up my Easter drawing (on top of some xerox transfers I had done with my seniors in my sketchbook class the week before). I've never been able to get an Easter drawing I'm happy with. This one was fun. 
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on 4/12/2012
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 After my cover on autopsies from January, I got another call from the great folks at the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association. They gave me a simple one word prompt for this image. Want to take a guess at what this concept is about? Offer some ideas and, lets see how well I did my job. I'll post the answer and some other images from the process tomorrow.
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on 4/5/2012
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 Three images have been selected to appear in American Illustration 31, including two images from my sketchbook. Always love to have those featured. Many thanks to the Mark Heflin and the illustrious jury!   
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on 4/3/2012
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Simon and Schuster commissioned me to illustrate the book jacket of an upcoming trilogy of young adult fantasy books called, of all things, Bad Unicorn. To say this was a dream job is to underestimate the disbelief I had when the art director herself suggested that I "impale a squirrel on the horn of Princess, the man-eating unicorn" Yeah. No problem.
   These were my first three concepts, they went with A, but needed less "Rambo" in the unicorn. They mixed and matched the back cover from C.  A tight sketch and a few color comps.
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 Got a stellar job which gave me the opportunity to draw the Titanic for the young adult novel Dangerous Waters, by Gregory Mone. (This year is the 100th anniversary of the famous disaster). Once again, my MFA seminar on disasters found me another job as I've become the first call for turning epic tragedies into slightly whimsical ruminations.   I sent these two ideas, the first using the classic image of how the Titanic went down, and tried an unusual point of view for B, from above with dramatic forced perspective.   Going from the rough sketch was going to be tricky without some great reference, so I decided to order a model kit of the Titanic. I put it together with my son on a Saturday. My wife Andrea said "How exactly does this help you make a better drawing?" I was starting to think the same thing while gluing microscopic portholes on this thing. But, handling something in physical space makes it so much easier to construct that object in 2D on paper. Drawing from life cannot be replaced by shoddy pictures from Google. Remember this students!  ...my final sketch with the new reference.
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 A new drawing for Peter Sagal's upcoming column "Road Scholar" in Runner's World. Peter's touching piece is about running in the neighborhood where he grew up, and the memories he encounters on his, literal, jog down memory lane. As a kid, he imagines he never would have seen himself as a passionate athletic runner in adult life. So, I had the enjoyable pleasure of drawing a dorky kid in the 70's (see below).  A few of my other concepts before we settled on him jogging by himself and his house.    
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 Roaring Brook Press asked me to work on the cover of a new young adult fiction book, by Nan Marino, called Hiding Out at the Pancake Palace, about a talented tween-pop-icon-in-training named Elvis Ruby, who flops on national television and escapes the spotlight by taking refuge in this rundown diner in the desolate pine-lands of New Jersey.
 Rough thumbnails focused on giant signage dwarfing Elvis, showing him who's in charge now. These super rough gestural drawings, are turned into tighter comps for the art director.  Some of my diner signage reference. Great fun looking for this stuff.   <
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 A drawing for Adam Davidson's column (he's know for NPR's Planet Money show) from next week's New York Times Magazine about the growth of 'artisanal' economies. Vast amounts of research to find hipster produced products was the highlight of this assignment.  
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  Outside of the minor criticism about my figures, "for my taste, John Hendrix's illustrations of London succeed better than his figures" the review is very positive and features one of my images... which happens to include figures. Pretty amazing. Here is a readable image, thanks to blogger new image settings.  
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 Peter Sagal, the host of NPR's quiz show, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! writes a monthly column for Runner's World, and I've been asked to illustrate it this month. When Peter travels on tour with his show, he often calls local running clubs to see if he can join a morning run with some other folks... often getting rides from total strangers in the middle of the night. This of course makes him think about being murdered by some psychopathic marathon runner...   Had an initial idea for the color that worked in theory, but not in form. Wanted to make it spooky and unify the group in blue shadowy colors... but you lose the fun of seeing all the props. In fact, some of the characters need local color (as opposed to analogous colors) to help identify who they are. So, I came up with another color idea, which worked better.   
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on 11/22/2011
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 Here are some of my silly Post it Notes for the Mark Todd's annual show at Giant Robot. Get'em at the opening for ten bucks each. Always wish I had time to do more each year.   
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What a great project! You are a master.