Past the halfway point in the large book project I’m currently working on (and unfortunately am unable to share on the blog until next year sometime), but am taking a break in the middle of this week to work on a few other assignments that are coming due at about the same time. The Red Thread cover I started yesterday and will be hopefully finishing up this afternoon (looking pretty good so far), but this morning I had a few scratchboard assignments to finish up, which I’ll post for today’s blog entry. The above illustration was one for the Chronicle. A rather tricky assignment for which I didn’t feel all that confident of my concept sketches, but the editors seemed to find one that fit the bill (below is one of the alternate ideas, which I personally preferred, and if I end up with any free time later, might finish up just for fun).

I also had an assignment for US Catholic, which I also finished up today (you can click on the image to see a larger version). I guess I’m out of touch with what altar boys are wearing these days, because my original sketch had the old black and white style outfits that I grew up with, but the editors wanted them to look like the sort of things they are wearing these days (which to me look like druid cloaks or possibly Jawas outfits from ‘Star Wars’).

I’ll post the Red Thread cover tomorrow when I finish it up.