Cover for The Classical Magazine's all-wrestling issue, titled, "Work". I was initially thinking to do a closeup of a face getting smashed into the turnbuckle and make it all sweaty/bloody/visceral but then I remembered one of my favorite wrestlers from when I was a kid: George "The Animal" Steele! Akzidenz Grotesk seemed to complement the drawing appropriately, and David Roth wanted to use the 8-bit logo I designed for the "Games" issue.
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Pencil sketch in 7"x9" moleskine.
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Sliced and roughed digitally for better angle and to accomodate 3 different crops needed for landscape/portrait iPad and iPhone screens.
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Digital pencils. Drawn in Photoshop using Frenden blue pencil custom brush.
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Traditional inks over printed blue lines. Pitt pen, Pilot V5 extra fine, and Pentel pocket brush pen on bristol, 11"x14".
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Finished piece, uncropped.
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Experiment to see if I could add a little motion to the turnbuckle filling. First time I've tried animating one of my illustrations.
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iPad (landscape crop)
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iPad (portrait crop)
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iPhone crop