'Explosive Growth' For Plansponsor!

For this month's PLANSPONSOR I got to work on a satisfyingly abstract picture on the idea of "Explosive Growth":

I'm pretty psyched on this one, open/abstract solutions like this one dont always work, so when they do I'm usually excited with the results. 
Also, in collaborating with AD SooJin Buzelli we discussed something a little more saturated and bright.   The sketch still felt fresh and mysterious(?), so after working on the one above some more, I thought I could give another go painting it out. 

The original one was chosen regardless, but I'm still into both of these.  Thanks again to SooJin Buzelli for the challenge!

Nick D'Orazio

Various- Nick D’Orazio, c. 2005

Thought I would post a few (out of hundreds) of my older brother’s MSPaint pictures.  Actual “outsider art” for 2012.  “Pop Surrealism” in a college netherworld.  Secretly articulate and specific.  Vibes, not references, to The Simpsons, S. Clay Wilson, Peter Saul, South Park, etc.

Gonna try and make it a habit of talking about/showing other people whose pictures excite me!

E.P.

 http://phantasmosis.bandcamp.com/album/e-p-1

Recorded a brief E.P.  Some short songs. Some sad songs, some ??? songs. Take a listen!

New York Times Letters Section

This was a piece I did for the New York Times letters section about carbon emissions.  It was fun getting to do the whole thing in such a short time, less time for anxieties to seep in.  Here's the article.
Thanks to Alexandra Zsigmond for the art direction!

Broken Pencil Magazine

This was a piece I did for Broken Pencil Magazine for a fiction piece about a woman whose husband gives birth to a little version of himself (and a little recliner and a little T.V. remote) and all the hijinx that ensue.  I liked getting to work with a story. Thanks to Linsday Gibb for getting me on board!

lots of stuff

 Here's some of the stuff I've been up to in the past monthish!

Got a new sketchbook, restarting my habit of filling up the inside spread with something.

Felt pretty excited by collage for a little, definitely gonna see what else comes out of it.

Also wanted to try my hand at some really slow pencil drawings.

I've always had an interest for the flowery/baroque compositions of Romanticism, as well as the general idea of this big transcendent force we all grapple with.  I came across this Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (who I honestly hadnt really heard of before this) painting "Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of French Heroes" (found here) and loved how kind of ridiculous and epi  the composition and idea of it was.  I definitely got the sense of how this might have influenced mainstream comics.  I felt like trying to draw it.

Plansponsor Haus!!!

This was a piece I did for PLANSPONSOR July originally about "risky real estate".  I had a lot of fun working on this one,  it was nice getting to work in a realm that was both a little abstract and straightforward.  Thanks to AD SooJin Buzelli for another fun one!!