tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16275936155235135212024-03-14T03:19:19.822-05:00er-hEr-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.comBlogger496125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-63385045796597334822018-11-06T11:35:00.000-06:002018-11-06T11:36:22.429-06:00Election Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I did this art for the alumni magazine at the University of Minnesota, art directed by Kristi Anderson. This is how it works. Patient, civil, public-spirited, honest, fair. Vote like your life depends on it because it does.Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-39150303670242351932018-10-09T16:27:00.000-05:002018-10-09T16:27:47.007-05:00Judicious IllustrationThe op-ed I was asked to illustrate in the LATimes was about how the Supreme Court was being endangered by extreme partisanship.<br />
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The trick with art like this is to avoid false equivalencies. I happen to think it's not a good idea to put hardline political operatives on the high court. I don't think it's wise to elevate an alleged sexual predator to the Supreme Court. I also think Americans might distrust a justice who has difficulties with telling the truth and seems skilled at hiding it. Call me old-fashioned...<br />
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So...here is the finished art. It isn't as sharp as I'd wanted to make it. False equivalency standards require both sides be pilloried or neither, which often tends to undermine the point. This art ended up blaming neither party for this episode. In my opinion the old American principle of "majority rules" was exercised by the Republican majority (to take a hypothetical example) as two men might force their wishes upon a 15 year-old girl in a locked bedroom.<br />
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Or is that too hypothetical? Certainly no self-respecting elephant would act that way.Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-64110641782364773832018-10-01T12:57:00.003-05:002018-10-01T13:01:27.768-05:00Another Visual Metaphor––When Is Something Really Something Else?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I watched a documentary recently called California Typewriter and found myself drawing typewriters for a few days afterwards. This was one of the ideas that popped up. I never owned a Selectric but always found the orb-shaped cartridge interesting. It seemed illogical (the gyrations required seemed overly elaborate)––but in use it proved very logical. It squeezed a complex sorting of letters into a very compact package, the most elegant of compact packages, the orb. It functioned in spite of itself. Sort of like the weird idea FedEx had of sending packages from New York to New Rochelle via Memphis. The central clearing house idea. It seemed cockeyed until it simplified the process.<br />
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Metaphors, likewise, emerge from concepts that seem odd or anomalous. Relations that seem remote that turn out to be direct. This is what analogies and similes are. Useful shorthand that forces the mind to make sense of something odd, a process which makes the idea seem absolutely right and commonplace. The obvious choice isn't always the best choice. (The shortest path between NY and New Rochelle might actually be Memphis.)<br />
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This is the key difference between direct representative illustration and metaphorical, idea-based illustration. A drawn metaphor works best if it remains simple, even blunt or crudely rendered. Not obvious or explicit. The more it looks like the image drawn the less likely it will suggest the idea or thing it's being compared to.<br />
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This drawing (above) would be a more successful metaphor if the Selectric orb were dropped into a planetary system, if it were revolving around the sun, for instance, or if it were being passed from player to player like a basketball. That said, I like the oddity of this running figure. I don't know what it means. That is what sketchbooks are for. For now I'm storing that drawing of the Selectric orb in this collage and may use it elsewhere someday.Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-76353988319553938722018-09-20T16:38:00.000-05:002018-09-20T16:38:28.012-05:00What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (And Love)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love how this cover turned out, with the quickly drawn figures in their isolation, except for the couple in the center, embracing in the middle of Times Square. I also thought two detached figures on bicycles added a subtle note of possibility.</div>
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ORbooks' Colin Robinson asked me to do this a few months ago, and, as happens with book publishing, I had forgotten the project until it arrived in the mail. Nothing is as thrilling as a book in the mail... Well almost nothing. It's especially exciting when it turns out to be something which I've had a part in. </div>
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Next possible moment of pleasure: when I see someone reading it in a café somewhere. </div>
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Media: ballpoint pen and paper + Photoshop. Simple materials. Portable in the first and second instance and nimble in the third.</div>
<br />Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-18823756179340966662017-12-13T11:49:00.000-06:002017-12-13T11:49:48.533-06:00Primrose Hill, London<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I was illustrating the covers for NYRB's Kingsley Amis titles I drew a lot more than what ended up being used. This, I believe, was for the collection of stories, but it might just as well have been meant for his novel Ending Up, because this is where Amis ended up: writing in the back garden of the house where he lived in Primrose Hill, London. A house belonging to his ex-wife (<a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/09/elizabeth-jane-howard-and-the-men-who-let-her-down/">Elizabeth Jane Howard</a>) and her new husband, a surprisingly congenial ending for a somewhat irascible character. Note the gin bottle and siphon placed next to his chair. Sara Kramer art directed this series.<br />
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This is the sort of drawing which I could imagine working very nicely as a print. I wouldn't mind having it on my own wall (if my own walls weren't so filled with bookcases.) I wouldn't mind writing my late novels in such a setting.<br />
<br />Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-4844005696640084802017-08-17T16:40:00.000-05:002017-08-17T16:42:41.992-05:00Art For The NYTimes-Nomadic TwentysomethingsI got a call from an old friend (an email, actually) who was designing a page for the New York Times. I'd last worked for Audrey Razgaitis on a spread for Condé Nast Traveler. This was the cover of the Real Estate section of the Times. The story was about twentysomethings living like nomads in the expensive NY real estate market. The picture that popped into my head was of city hipsters wandering with all their worldly goods on their heads. It worked out beautifully I think.<br />
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<br />Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-2665480717331353692017-03-28T11:59:00.000-05:002017-03-28T11:59:28.369-05:00More Green ThingsThere was a time in my youth when I enjoyed spending an afternoon in the woods identifying plant life. A sure sign of a pathetic, boring childhood. I was a Nature Boy. So I had to get back in touch with that part of me when the LATimes phoned for this story about garden plants and their uses. Here is where a person asks me if domestic plants are easier to draw than wild plants. Yes, they are better at sitting still so I can draw them.<br />
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The next question is Do I pronounce them "herbs" or "erbs"? Yes, I do. This page was art directed by Wesley Bausmith.Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-30446295038298366542017-03-27T12:06:00.000-05:002017-03-27T12:08:09.727-05:00Green MetaphorsI did some art a few years ago for a new think tank based in Chicago. The name was Greenhouse, so I set to work thinking of every green metaphor and every way I could incorporate greenness into illustrations of other things. Simplicity of line helps a lot. The simpler the drawing the more metaphor it can convey, because concrete art emphasizes the object and its qualities. Simpler art gets the viewers or readers to ask themselves: what else does this mean? Simple, unelaborated line can also suggest other things, other topics, other meanings. Is this simple to do? Not really. A simple drawing often reaches that nice evocative simplicity after pages and pages of other versions have wound up on the floor.<br />
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<br />Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-38974845659815989732017-03-24T08:40:00.001-05:002017-03-24T08:40:32.997-05:00A Hill Town In Italy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Architecture is a complex enough puzzle when it's looked at straight on, but that complexity increases when you are looking down a hill or along a street. This explains why those views are the most interesting to look at. Capturing that complexity as simply as possible is the trick. Using fewer colors is a start.Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-80350300322907754412017-03-21T12:39:00.000-05:002017-03-21T12:39:09.341-05:00Political EphemeraI am a close observer of events and politics and often go to bed with the latest outrage in my head. Sometimes I wake up in the night with an idea. Sometimes that idea doesn't take shape until I put pencil to paper the next day. But however quick my response is, the lifespan of a political metaphor can be very short. I send new drawings to my usual clients as soon as I draw them because the topic won't be relevant for long. Each outrage seems to be superseded by a new and greater outrage. I drew a lot of political art from 2000 to 2008, then No-Drama Obama calmed things for eight years, except as outrages were hurled at him by the Republicans. Now a strange outrage factory has moved into the White House and Congress. Here is a drawing I did as information emerged about Attorney General Jefferson Davis Beauregard Sessions and his flirtations with the Russians. New outrages have fallen like hard rain in the days since, making this drawing old news. The quote is adapted from an angry disavowal from the late 90s.<br />
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<br />Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-65253941092577765412017-03-07T10:04:00.000-06:002017-03-07T10:04:25.015-06:00Ravel's BirthdayI listen to music while I draw. A lot of Bill Evans and quieter, subtler jazz music like that, but also classical music. Among my favorite classical composers I put Maurice Ravel very near the top. Art requires nuance and Ravel is all nuance, subtle variations, nothing obvious or insistent or clichéd or overly sentimental. I've spent years removing these things from my art and listening to Ravel and others like him has helped. Here is a drawing I did from a photograph of Ravel.<br />
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Views like this appeal to me. The receding perspective isn't carried by handsome fronts of houses and boulevard elms, it's garages and garbage cans and telephone poles. This time of year there isn't any softening texture of foliage, it's all lines and planes and fissures.<br />
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I drew this for Tilka Design, art directed by Ingrid Noble.<br />
Having been a ski writer for 20 years I thought this was a perfect metaphor for what they wanted to say. (Be bold and don't look down.)<br />
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I did this drawing from an old photograph, adding the pipe. Sometimes I add a pipe, sometimes a bird perched on the top of the person's head. <br />
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<br />Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-83906406455882231772017-02-25T13:53:00.000-06:002017-02-25T13:53:11.684-06:00New Year's CardI did this New Year's card for Thebe&Co, a local design firm run by Beth Desnick and Thea Nelson. They are a pleasure to work with by the way.<br />
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The client for this was the Milken Institute, an investment think tank. The article was about managing funds in a balanced way so they don't become topheavy, and the risks of removing pieces from a complex structure.<br />
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I did this drawing a couple years ago for Macalester College. <br />
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Art directed by Julie Underdahl.Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-55364808728563395252017-02-21T16:31:00.001-06:002017-02-21T16:32:25.272-06:00Pet SoundsMaybe that's what I ought to listen to when I do these occasional assignments for Family Circle. I am getting pretty good at dogs and cats. Pigs are easy. I still have difficulty with horses. This feature was about service pets, which is pets who are helpful and kind to humans because they are paid to be. Art directed by Dana Einsidler and Lisa Kelsey.<br />
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<br />Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-1790021097152313732017-02-21T14:32:00.000-06:002017-02-21T14:36:58.597-06:00I Drew My Way Through SchoolThis is a drawing I did for an education magazine a year or two ago, and looking at it again reminded me how I experienced school. I did not take to it at first. Finally a teacher found she could get me to sit still and shut up by letting me draw. She asked me to draw portraits of the presidents while she taught the other students.* My parents were dubious about this but I accepted the deal with huge relief. We were all relieved. I was the kind of student that made teachers look like this teacher in the drawing. (By the way, I am working on a book about the presidents now. It was fated.)<br />
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*By the way, by focusing on drawing I actually listened better. My test scores improved. My grades climbed up into the A and B range. I suspect everybody's grades improved. I think it may have restored a few years to Mrs. Maggard's life.<br />
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A recent drawing, a collage of drawings really. I like the cat's cradle of lines I can get by overlapping the drawings this way in Photoshop. The colored dots help differentiate them. In a way it's like the montages from films of the 1930s. We'll see how many different ways I can use this.Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-10950375391287449482016-12-07T13:21:00.000-06:002016-12-07T13:21:39.243-06:00We Deserve GelatoIt's been a difficult month, so let's reward ourselves. I did these gelato delivery vehicles for an article about the logistics of gelato in Rome. Design by Pentagram/Austin. The art director was Julie Savasky.<br />
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Art directed by Thea Nelson of Thebe Street Design. This image is one of five panels I illustrated for a wall at Blue Cross's offices here in the Twin Cities.Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-3986618196840608132016-09-13T15:44:00.000-05:002016-09-13T15:45:43.830-05:00Pet Health (art for Family Circle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Art directed by Lisa Kelsey and Alison Fedele.Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-83489802220779180122016-07-13T09:00:00.000-05:002016-07-13T09:00:16.345-05:00Another Drawing for the New York Times Editorial Page<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been in the rotation this week doing some editorial illustrations for the Times. This editorial was about the secret rules that govern drone targeting and killing of terror suspects. Art director Sarah Williamson suggested the camouflage idea, and I thought of the idea of a curtain being drawn aside to reveal what is going on.<br />
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Drawing the drone and the hands and the missile were straightforward enough, but camouflage is harder than you think. It adds visual noise and pattern, and I tend to prefer simplicity, but keeping the palette narrow helped minimize the complexity. Making the hand match the brown tone in the pattern helped tie the image together.<br />
<br />Er-Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03445669839883214746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1627593615523513521.post-55524907614628308912016-07-12T12:05:00.000-05:002016-07-12T12:05:56.554-05:00A Drawing for the New York Times Opinion Page<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Times editorial was about how Hillary runs against an unconventional candidate like Trump in swing states like North Carolina where the outsider candidate has a certain appeal. I tried to think what Trump reminded me of. A lot of personality types came to mind but the one that stuck was the junior high malcontent, the bully, the kid in the back of the classroom who shows his contempt for school by disrupting everything. Trump is the kid throwing paper airplanes when someone else is trying to speak.<br />
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The Times needs an image to work both as a vertical and a horizontal for its print and online editions.<br />
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The first drawing I did showed Hillary from the side. Because the Times avoids likeness (and satirical caricature) I drew her hair and her outfit, which instantly identify her. In this version I shifted the Hillary figure into a gray tone.<br />
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