After a month hiking in the John Muir Wilderness in California, I’m back at the drawing board and catching up with work. Above is a scene from our adventures (with my brother in law John in the foreground), this was along the Pacific Crest Trail around day 6 of our hike, heading for our first hotel reservation and resupply stop. It was a wonderful time and I’m already missing the scenery (but not the mosquitos).

Below is an illustration I did this week for the American Bar Association. Both of my ‘book projects’ are temporarily in a holding pattern, and I’m clearing the late August calendar early in anticipation of a coming busy period.

As promised, here’s the rest of the project for the ABA for their special Reprint issue of Litigation Magazine (along with the ‘Dogs in Court’ illustration from the previous post). This was a fun one, with a wide variety of subjects and scenarios, and all tied together with a scratchboard style and sepia spot colors just to keep things interesting. I was also given the chance to do the cover for the same issue (pictured at the very bottom with a bit more color added).

 

Posted above is one of several illustrations I’m doing for the American Bar Association for a special issue of Litigation Magazine. I’ll be posting the rest of the illustrations for this project next week, but I just finished this one up this morning, and besides being a lot of fun, I was pretty tickled with how it turned out. Had a pretty slow March, but this client came to the rescue with the perfect assignment for the available time frame, and pretty much saved my bacon this month (so a big thanks to Jill at ABA!). I’m still in a holding pattern on the upcoming Dan Rather Graphic Novel, but I’ve been assured by the publisher that work will begin at the start of April.

 

 

Here’s a rough sketch of a job that I’ll likely be finishing up today and over the weekend for the American Bar Association. (I’ve been working with the ABA since 1997)