Cookie Jar Illustration. (Click image to view larger)
If you've taken a look at your favorite magazine of late I bet you'll notice it's substantially thinner than in previous issues. Ad revenue is down, it's a reflection of the economic problems our nation is facing at the moment.
That said magazines still need illustration thankfully and "Oil and Gas Investor" magazine hired me to illustrate for an article dealing with some of the same ethical problems that caused the financial mess were in now.
You know, greedy corporate weasels stealing money. The context of this illustration was in regards to investing, specifically in oil futures. Most of these crimes are white collar and it happens on paper. So I decided to play off the old "hand in the cookie jar" metaphor.
I don't do a whole lot of editorial illustration these days but I still think they're fun to work on.
4 comments:
Nice illustration Von! You the Man!
nice illustration, Von. Also fortunate to have a good production person layout the page. I like the way he or she ragged the copy around your illustration - there's a nice harmony going on between the text and the image.
the illustration is great! the text wrap is hideous though!
Yeah - there are some pretty bad word breaks in the text wrap. I like the idea of wrapping the text though - agreed that there should have been closer attention paid to the details. Man, I love that the cookie jar is an oil barrel.
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