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Hello! So I just realized I completely missed my blog post for last week. Sorry! I'll try to make it up at some point by posting some embarrassing reference or something along those lines.

This blog post features artwork I did for Kerri at MYBusiness magazine. I have been very fortunate to work with Kerri on many occasions, and it is always a pleasure. In this instance, Kerri was looking for some eye-catching artwork for their cover. It had not been decided which article was going to grace the cover, so we worked on ideas for the two possibilities. One feature was about Unions/Big Labor and the other is about the military heroes of Small Business. Here are the sketches:

The first sketch for the "small business soldier" was a very simple man-in-suit with stars on his lapels and a striped tie, looking heroic and patriotic. Although I enjoy the sketch as a drawing, I feel this was too subtle.

The second sketch has a better feel. Kerri wanted a superhero-type image similar to the Blue-collar football image I had done a few months back. I feel that a patriotic superhero costume has been perfected, so I alluded the the amazing Captain America.

The second article dealt with the effect of labor unions on small business owners. In today's tough economy, some already suffering businesses are on thin ice because of union-enforced regulations that may or may not relate to their business and employees. For the first, sketch I went with a laborer's gloved hand squeezing a small businessman.

My second sketch played off a "boxing in" phrase used in the article in reference to government and labor unions trying to make small businesses fit a generic mold of what all businesses should be and how they should perform, waht they should provide, etc.

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