The Housewife

December 15 This is the last image of the series I've been doing for Playboy this year.  The woman is a housewife that the guy...

Recent work for The New Yorker

December 9 Here are a couple of images for The New Yorker along with some of the sketches.  They were published in the last...

2007 Drawger Annual

November 19 Check out the Brand New 2007 Drawger Annual HERE!!!!!

Steve Heller Portraits

October 29 Last month I was asked to contribute a portrait of Steve Heller for a small book that Seymour Chwast was putting...

Drawing with a Drill

October 28 Sometime last year I was at a show of paintings by David Choe with some of the Drawger folks.  There was a video...

Kids' books, politicians, and go-go girls, just another night in the city

October 21 Last week I attended an opening at the Society of Illustrators for The Original Art Show, an exhibit of original art...

The Waitress

October 20 This is this month's illustration for German Playboy.  She's a waitress at a bar.  I tried something with a...

Painting process

October 17 When I work on uncommissioned work, I usually just start drawing or painting without a preconceived idea.  I start...

'Downright' show pics

October 12 When the server crash thing happened I was uploading some of these pics of the opening at PEP Gallery last week. ...

Pictures for the People!

October 5 Tomorrow, Saturday, I'll be at this Green Day event that Felix Sockwell is putting together in Maplewood, NJ. ...

I'm on Broadway!!!

October 3 Doing illustration work on a regular basis, one gets used to seeing their work in print.  At first, I got excited...

Radiohead: Record companies, who needs them?

September 30 Radiohead announced today that they have a new album.  They're selling the CD themselves and letting you pay what...

Work in a show in Brooklyn

September 29 This is a recent painting that will be in a show at PEP gallery in Brooklyn.  The opening is on Friday, Oct. 5th...

Book Review art

September 28 This is a new image for the NY Times Book Review.  The non fiction book that is reviewed is "The Art of...

AIGA Books Show

September 26 There's a good show at AIGA in NYC that just opened today, check it out if you have some time.  There are a lot of...

Auction to benefit Behind the Book

September 26 A few months ago I posted some photos from a school visit in Brooklyn through a group called Behind the Book.  You...

The School Teacher

September 21 This is my new image for the monthly Playboy gig.  She teaches Latin.  The guy in the story walks in to pick...

Rodriguez VS. Staake

September 17 Place your bets!

N.Y.C.

September 16 For the last several weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about New York City.  Earlier in the Summer, I was asked...

Paintings

September 15 Here are a couple of paintings I did today.  I usually paint without planning ahead or sketching and like to see...

Friday Night Music Video

September 14 Leo sent me this video by a band from Uruguay called 'Cuarteto de Nos'. I'm a big fan of typography and love seeing...

Art for a Book Review

August 30 Here is a recent cover for the Washington Post Book World.  I got really wrapped up in the drawing of this...

T-Shirt Proposal of the Day?

August 23 A public service follow up to the "Conservatism Kills" post by my friend Steve Brodner.  Yesterday, news...

Mitt Romney

August 17 I did this portrait of Mitt Romney for an article on the Iowa caucus.  Although he won the caucus, the article...

The Tour Guide

August 17 This is this month's image for German Playboy.  She's a Moroccan tour guide, and the traveler in the story falls...

Perils of the job....

August 16 Hey now, hey now, just trying to shoot some photo reference for a poster, young lady.  No need to get all Paris...

Op-Ed

August 12 This image is in Today's NY Times Op-Ed page.  The story is titled "An Atrocity That Needs No...

D.J. Rekha

August 11 This portrait of D.J. Rekha ran in this week's New Yorker magazine.  She was spinning at the Prospect Park Band...

Some Figure Drawings

August 1 Hey, here are some old figure drawings of mine, just piggybacking on the discussion over at my friend Peter Cusack's...

yee-haw.

July 29 my 10 year old nephew is visiting and he painted this.  Reminded me that I spent those college years learning...

The Interior Designer

July 25 This is my new image for the regular German Playboy series.  The story is that she's an interior designer, and the...

Depression in the workplace

July 24 This was for a story on an unusually high rate of suicides in some European businesses after they've adopted American...

Drawger Pool Party!

July 22 We had a bunch of friends and Drawger folks over to our house in New Jersey yesterday for a pool party.  People...

Peace

July 18 This was for an article about the many wasted attempts at peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.  The...

And Sometimes they run it BIG....

July 16 Many times when we do an illustration, the publication ends up running the art very small.  A lot of the detail...

A film and a musical

July 12 Here are a couple of illustrations done recently for The New Yorker.  The one at the top was for a quirky film...

Action!

June 30 I'm not sure how it got to this, but Thursday I found myself on the other side of one of those film markers that say...

Manu Chao concert - Brooklyn

June 28 I went last night to a Manu Chao concert in Prospect Park with Leo, Fuchs, Flaherty, Ellen, and Leo's friend...

behindthebook.org

June 23 Last month I was invited by Behind the Book to visit P.S. 274 in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.  I had a lot of...

The Museum Guard

June 18 This is my new image for German Playboy.  The character in the story is a beautiful museum guard. 

Woman with braid

June 10 This is the latest image from my monthly series for German Playboy.  The story is about a guy that goes to a party...

Music

June 9 I just wanted to recommend a few CD's I'm listening to (yes, I still buy CD's). I have a love for album or CD art and...

Book Release Salsa Party!

June 6 I've illustrated a kid's book titled Oye Celia!, about the Cuban Salsa singer Celia Cruz, for Henry Holt...

Memorial Day Parade

May 28 Today, I went to a Memorial Day Parade near where I live, and shot some photographs.  Sometimes, I do drawings...

Me and my dad

May 27 My dad is visiting for the Memorial Day weekend.  I haven't seen him in a year so we're having fun.  He's...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

May 17 Joseph Fiedler and Kroninger mentioned Rosetta Tharpe recently and I thought I'd put this drawing up. I did it a...

Drawing of a film

May 17 This is an image from several weeks ago for The New Yorker.  It went with a review of the film "Reign Over...

The Bronx Zoo

May 10 This past weekend I went with my family to The Bronx Zoo.  I brought my camera along.  I've added a few...

Carlos Salinas

May 9 This is a portrait of Carlos Salinas de Gotari, former president of Mexico.  It's a full page image in the Spring...

TIME 100 The Sequel

May 8 As part of the long tradition of Drawger piggy backing, I am following Marc's post on the TIME 100 with some work I've...

Thomas Hardy

May 8 This is a recent portrait for The New York Times Book Review.  It accompanied an article on Thomas Hardy, an...

The Namesake

May 4 I've known author Jhumpa Lahiri since the late 1990's.  At the time she was working on a small collection of short...

At The Crossroads

April 25 These drawings went with a story in Weekly Reader.  They took the legend of Robert Johnson selling his soul to the...

Bob and Me

April 11 My night owl friend Bob just put up this image of buildings bathed in moonlight.  We either hang out too much or...

The Sopranos

April 8 Since the last season of The Sopranos is kicking off, it seems that there have been a few assignments related to the...

Work picked for Communication Arts Annual

April 7 Communication Arts sent out e-mails this week letting people know what got in to their show.  Usually friends...

Red, Black, and White

April 6 This is another image I did recently for the NY Times Book Review.  The review was of a novel titled...

Hello!

April 6 This is the latest illustration for the series I'm working on for German Playboy.  I'm putting this up on Friday...

New York Times Book Review Cover

April 1 Several Sundays ago I did this cover for the N.Y. Times Book Review.  It's the first time I've done a cover for...

Iraq, Four Years Later

March 20 The first assignment I received from my portfolio over at illoz.com was a very powerful one.  It was also very big...

More Bunnies!

March 14 This is my latest illustration for the German Playboy series.  She works at a health food store, met the guy, they...

I draw cute bunny rabbits too!

March 13 This drawing is for a story on the endangered New England cottontail rabbit. So, here is my cute bunny rabbit. I...

Chinese Democracy

March 11 This image was for a story about the state of democratic reforms in China.  I did it a couple of months ago, but I...

My drawing is moving!

March 1 I did this drawing of The Roots a couple of years ago for Esquire magazine.  The crew at Style5 wanted to do a...

Me and the Copacabana Girls

February 28 Well, I know they're not Johnny Cash, or Nora Ephron, or Chris Rock, but they're not so bad are they?Everyone's posting...

Enter the American Illustration Pageant

February 28  A while back all of us at Drawger discussed the pros and cons of competitions.  I was trying to figure out...

dickblick.com

February 25 I just wanted to let everyone know about dickblick.com, a pretty nice online art supply store.  You might already...

My ICONIC Podcast Interview

February 22 I was interviewed recently by Erik J. Olsen of ICONIC at Illustration Mundo.  You can hear the interview by...

Illustrating a review of a complex novel

February 15 I often get assignments to illustrate reviews of novels that are based in foreign countries.  This image was for a...

Send in a Drawger Logo

February 8 Hey, Zimm started a Drawger logo show back in the Summer.  The idea is in full effect now.  A new logo shows...

Style 5 Animation Studio is here!

February 1 Chuck Gammage and Sam Chou up in Toronto have started "Style 5", a new animation studio.  They asked me...

Ralph Nader

January 30 I did this portrait of Ralph Nader for this week's New Yorker magazine.  It's for a small feature on the...

Experiments

January 25 This is an assignment I did for a book review.  The book documents the history of medical experiments on African...

The Financial Advisor

January 24 This is the latest installment in my monthly drawings for Playboy Magazine in Germany.I get about a three line...

The Drawger Annual is Here

January 16 Cheers to Zimm for putting together the Drawger Annual!  You can check it out over on the top right of the main...

Martin Luther King

January 15 I did this drawing several years ago but wanted to put it up to commemorate MLK Day.  King's speeches have always...

The Decider

January 12 Steve Brodner's influence is spreading throughout Drawger.    This isn't a very good likeness, but you...

China Girls

January 11 My old college professor Joe Smith brought up the idea of trying out new materials in a recent post.  I thought I...

Awe, baby Illoz is a week old!

January 11 Well, actually baby illoz was a week old yesterday, but time just flies with a newborn.  I mean, Papa Zimm is...

The Holmes Brothers

January 9 I did this portrait of The Holmes Brothers for this week's New Yorker magazine.  Their music is a blend of...

Second Thoughts....

January 6 I did this illustration for the NY Times Op-Ed page, it was published yesterday.  The story talks about how maybe...

UFO spotted over Asheville, North Carolina

January 4 DPI — Overnight, an unidentified flying object was spotted in the area around Asheville, North Carolina. ...

illoz.com

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