Sunday, May 09, 2010

5 Hour turn around for The Weekly Standard!



Another crazy-quick deadline that I did for The Weekly Standard this past Friday! I was called around 1:00 P.M. and asked to do something loose and sketchy . . . which is a good thing considering the final was due by 5:00 P.M. that same day. It was a lot of fun to do, I love drawing and sketching, and wish I had more time for it. There's something very therapeutic about sketching, something freeing about it that I really enjoy . . . it also helps when your subject has a fantastic face to work with, so thank you Martha Minow!




Close up . . . I wasn't going for an ultra tight rendered look, in fact, I wanted the opposite, loose and alive . . . a quick way to draw.




This is a quick thumbnail sketch I did to explore shape and design.

15 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Great job!

2:01 PM  
Blogger Toby Kinread said...

Great picture Jason, well done:)

2:29 PM  
Blogger Aaron Wilkin said...

Nice!!! Awesome job on the eyes and mouth!!! As well as everything else!!

2:48 PM  
Anonymous Duane Stockton said...

Great drawing. I think I saw the photo you used as a reference. I really did not know what she looked like. Really nice caricature of her. You really nailed it!

4:34 PM  
Blogger Jonathan said...

Love your line work, your draftsmanship is impeccable!

11:37 PM  
Blogger Thierry COQUELET said...

As Duane, I did'nt know what Martha Minow looked like, and was very happy to find her photo and compare it to her caricature. It's a really awesome sketchy illustration.

6:19 AM  
Blogger William K. Moore said...

Excellent line work Jason - you show once again how your drawing is the engine room of great painted works, whether it be watercolor, acrylic or oil. Never tire of seeing all these constructions.

10:11 AM  
Blogger Castor said...

great!!!

5:45 PM  
Blogger Luke Watson said...

This time next year you'll be getting the brief at 4pm and the deadline will be 4:30...

And no doubt it'll still be a cracking illustration!

9:41 PM  
Blogger william wray said...

Bang- zoom, to the moon!

12:12 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You have some crazy ninja sketching skills man ;) Great job!

2:14 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

hahahah freakin brilliant

3:14 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Excellent cross-hatched rendering. :D

5:52 PM  
Blogger Scott said...

There seems to be more exaggeration in this one which i'm liking a lot. Excellent.

6:48 AM  
Blogger Isaac Orloff Illustration said...

haha thats only 4 hours. youre not giving yourself enough credit!

10:51 AM  

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