Grand Central Station: Gawker spotted while sketching at Grand Central. This makes me laugh.
New York City, 2005
Grand Central Station: Gawker spotted while sketching at Grand Central. This makes me laugh.
New York City, 2005
Met Costume Institute: Animal Fashion. It was a lot of fun to draw at this show… if only to hear the comments people made as they passed through the exhibit. There was an amazing array of color and texture, both natural and unnatural. Who knew you could do so much with rodent tails and feathers?
New York City, 2005
Marker Sketch: Guy enjoying his music in Union Square
New York City, 2005
Roaming. Soho, Central Park during Christo’s Gates installation, Columbus Circle.
New York City, 2005
Great Wall, the Chinese takeaway in my neighborhood. Alongside this sketch I scrawled: “Very depressing — everything is greyish, even the downtrodden girl behind the counter. Only the plastic bag is happy…”
New York City, 2005
Marker Sketch: Men on benches, Union Square
New York City, 2005
Lazy afternoon. People hanging out in Union Square on a nice afternoon. Unfinished.
New York City, 2005
Girl in Pink, 13th Street
New York City, 2005
Observations, Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
New York City, 2005
Playing with character ideas and computer illustration:
Originally made for Moji, where is his profile revealed the following:
Name: Scabbit
Series: Manhattanimals
Birthday: Not even his mother remembers
Hometown: New York, NY (Ft. Tryon Park, represent)
Likes: Slightly rotten produce, the smell of a rain-soaked urban wasteland, sharpening his claws on the sides of moving subway trains, and old black and white films (though he’d never admit the last one)
Dislikes: You
Super Powers: The telepathic ability to make people itch
Personality: Total bastard. Will scratch, claw, kick and spit at random. Was born with a genetic defect that makes his tongue to long for his mouth, therefore it always hangs out. Not even children are fooled into thinking this is your ordinary fluffy bunny — he gives off a vibe that can only be described as ornery. Born under a downtown pier, he fled uptown after a particularly brutal rabbit adolescence and has taken refuge in a northern Manhattan park that has lots of dark underpasses and rank hedgerows. Claim to fame: lashing out at Bette Midler with his claws when she and her cleanup crew tried to recycle his favorite can.
2006
Playing with character ideas and computer illustration:
Originally made for Moji, where is his profile revealed the following:
Name: Orson Snout III
Series: Manhattanimals
Hometown: A tiny ancestral farm on a Manhattan rooftop
Likes: Hot dogs (cannibalistic thrill), rain, the complexity of subway dirt
Dislikes: Rats, urbanistas on the hunt for trendy pets
Super Powers: Invisibility (when covered in mud)
Personality: Surprisingly sweet and lovable for a New York pig. Just wants to hang out and see what’s going on.
2006
Enlisted by a buddy to help sign people in during opera auditions, I had lots of time to doodle. Experiencing people wearing full-on black tie is just plain weird before noon. Definite types emerged throughout the day: nervous mezzos, overripe sopranos, puckish tenors, vampire baritones…
2006
