I’m excited to announce a fantastic new client: Bookmarks Magazine.  It is a book-review magazine that comes out bi-monthly and is available in Barnes & Noble and Borders across the U.S.

 This was a really challenging piece for me as I worked to push a more ‘handmade’ quality yet still create everything in vector so that it is resizable.  Also daunting was the cast of characters.  There are about 25 full characters and then a smattering of 1/2 characters.  Just trying to make that many people unique yet consistent in the same composition was a huge challenge.  The original underdrawing took nearly 8 hours. (I admit I had to do it twice because I’m a perfectionist.

The best part of all was that Bookmarks previous to this piece had only used stock illustration!  It was a big risk on their part to begin working with an illustrator to step out of their comfort zone but they were ecstatic about the results!  They were great to work with and I look forward to doing future pieces for them.

You can see the piece here.