Get Ready for Submissions!

Expose 7 has called for submissions! All you digital artists, get your gear...in gear! Deadline for submissions is currently the 23rd of February 09. I'm going to be sending them some images and you should too! Happy painting!

Being Published!

The image above was illustrated for the story 8 Across written by Leigh Lundin and is to be published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in April of this year. The story is really great and I had a ton of fun coming up with the image based on the text (you'll have to check out the whole story to get all the symbolism). Thanks Leigh!

The door for this job was really opened up for me in May when I met AHMM's Art Director at the Pratt Show. Shortly after our meeting out on the floor I sent her some of my images in B&W so she could show them to her Editors and see how my work would print.

Not hearing from them for a while I had assumed that the lead would stop there. However, out of the blue one afternoon, I got a call from AHMM seeing if I was available. At the time I was freelancing for Elle.com and Greenphotoshop, moving out of my old apartment and into a new one and working on a side project. But, there's no way I was going to pass up that opportunity. So I accepted the job, they sent me the manuscript and I started sketching what eventually became the image above.

It's really exciting to see something you've done published and this is no exception. Perhaps one of the coolest parts of this job is that the story has been excerpted on the mag's website and my illustration has a cozy spot sitting right next to it! I can't wait to get my hands on a printed copy!

Thanks again to Leigh for the kind words and links, everyone over at AHMM that helped out;) and the folks over at Pratt!

Ciao