{"id":250,"date":"2006-06-07T21:27:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T21:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=250"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:22:58","slug":"illo-for-the-new-york-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2006\/06\/illo-for-the-new-york-times-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Illo for The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/archives\/Keegan_vacation-FINAL.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/archives\/Keegan_vacation-FINAL.html','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"long_vacation_detail.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/archives\/long_vacation_detail.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Click above to see the full image)<br \/>\nJust finished this drawing for The New York Times&#8217; Thursday Styles Section (June 8, 2006). The story was about how younger workers in their 20&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s are often passing on the standard two week vacations, in favor of longer vacations, in-between their frequent job-hopping.<br \/>\nRead on to see my sketch and my reference photo.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"VACATION_REF.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/archives\/VACATION_REF.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"492\" \/> <br clear=\"all\" \/>You can see I had to make some serious modifications to my photo&#8230;They specifically asked for him to be &#8216;cooler&#8217; than the frumpy guy in my sketch&#8230;so I had to do some Johnny Drama-style calf implants and restore my youthful thick hair.<br \/>\nBelow is my original sketch. All-in-all a really fun job to work on, right up my alley. I had tons of <a href=\"http:\/\/jonkeegan.com\/pix\/asia\/southeast_asia-frset.html\" target=\"new\">great reference<\/a> to use for the Thailand-through-the-portal part&#8230;I really enjoyed spending time in the scene&#8230;I think that is a crucial&#8230;you need to love the place you are going to be spending so many hours in&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"longVacation_sketch-500.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/archives\/longVacation_sketch-500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click above to see the full image) Just finished this drawing for The New York Times&#8217; Thursday Styles Section (June 8, 2006). The story was about how younger workers in their 20&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s are often passing on the standard two week vacations, in favor of longer vacations, in-between their frequent job-hopping. Read on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}