Born in Detroit and youngest of four artistic boys for whom many a creative ruckus were attributed. Moves to Pittsburgh in his youth and finds it a cool town. Attends Syracuse University and studies illustration. Lives in Vermont for a few years doing freelance illustration and lots and lots of snowboarding. Moves to New York City and begins doing illustration and interactive design work for the Wall Street Journal Online. Lives in NYC for 10 years during which time he meets the ever-amazing Kristina. In the spring of 2009 they drive across the country with two cats in the backseat to relocate in Sacramento and enjoy the awesomeness of nothern California.
I’ve justed turned in this illo which will be promoting the Village Voice’s ‘Best of New York’ issue which comes out in October. My main concern at the moment is whether the lower portion of the art is printing too dark – darker and more saturated than on my monitor anyway… I may have to tweak that. The architecture is mostly a blend of Chinatown, Soho, Lower east side, the East and West Village. Here’s a few details:
Recent sketching from the subway, on an airplane, east river park and robert moses beach.
It is both my personal and professional opinion that the snowboard may be mankind’s greatest invention. My brother Phil owned a Snurfer back in the mid-eighties and we used to bomb the woods behind my parents house when there were 2 inches of snow on the ground. So as a tribute to the snurfer, the new INVISIBLE MAN redesign (thanks Jon) and my ongoing obsession with sharks and waves… I present the graphics I would put on a snowboard if someone were to hire me to do such a thing.
A few icons whupped up for the Gelf Magazine gang. Gelf contributor Keith Huang recently had a good write-up about the comedy troupe The Hollow Men.
I’ve proposed these designs to the folks at the Voice for this year’s SirenFest t-shirt art. I’m not sure if they’ll end up going with these colors but it would be cool to see something along these lines. They’ll be sold at the festival and on the Voice’s site afterward.
The subway is still one of my favorite spots to draw people. Though as Kerry O’Neil has mentioned – you often end up with images of people sleeping and reading. Also pictured is an acrylic fingerpainting from the moleskine sketchbook – which reminds me of similarly colored painting my brother Stephen did when he was 3.
I made these drawing/paintings for my niece and nephew (Ella and Jack) who live in Pittsburgh. The poses are from characters in the siren drawing.
Also viewed some great work at the Greater New York 2005 show at PS1 this weekend.
Playing around with some logos… the fat cats at Invisible Man HQ are always clamoring for brand identification.
In an unrelated note, the Diane Arbus show at the Met comes highly recommended from those aforementioned honchos.
I made this illo for my cousin Ethan’s wedding invitation. The reflection in the water is drawn from a photo they’d sent me of them as snuggling 5 year olds. They live in Colorado and Libby is related to Mark Hamill — you read that right – Luke Skywalker himself. It’s high time an Antonson wed into intergalactic royalty.
Yes! I’ve beaten Jon Keegan to the post (I’ve garnered information that he’s finished an illo and will also be posting). Anyway – here’s the illo for this years Siren Music Festival. click the image for a larger view.
I was full of dread the whole time I worked on this… never felt like it was going to work out. Luckily the radio program ‘This American Life’ kept me going – truly an outstanding show… Check it: