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Looking forward to season 6 of Mad Men. It’s one of my favorite TV shows. Yes I enjoy the creative context which is advertising, but the other aspect I enjoy is that the era is the 1960′s and I’m always spotting the same decor and objects my parents owned and I remember seeing when I was a kid.

I think in the second season I spotted wooden ducks with metal wings hanging on a wall during one scene and just laughed because my parents had the exact same set in our living room growing up. Kudos to prop master Scott Buckwald for a very authentic touch to an already compelling narrative.

My favorite character on the show is Roger Sterling. He plays a narcissistic womanizer with a quick wit and a penchant for liquor and cigarettes. He’s a good example of everything you shouldn’t be, and he pulls the roll off in a very entertaining way.

So I decided to illustrate him tonight using one continuous line.

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Editorial Illustration.

I don’t do a lot of editorial illustration. But one publication I’ve been doing editorial illustrations for well over a decade now is a magazine called “Oil and Gas Investor.” I get sent the article, I read it, re-read it and try to glean some bit of information I can elaborate into an interesting visual narrative that will represent and work well with the article.

The premise of this article was on research being done by universities regarding shale-gas exploration. Initially research papers were coming out and the reports were positive in general, than the debate would begin to flame the research via ad hominem personal attacks on the researchers behind the reports.

So this dynamic of academia playing their research card and having the cards turned on them leading to the report than becoming a negative reflection on them was the idea I played off of. My client liked an old illustration I had done years ago so I used the same segmented style and format on this editorial illustration.


Keywords: Illustration, Commentary, Editorial