WALL-E

Here's the basics of my movie page design for the latest animated film from Disney and Pixar. WALL-E. The film opens June 27th, and that's when my page is slated to run as well. I haven't been this excited about a page I've been working on in a while. Let me know what you think too. 

Operation Graphic

This graphic is about a player for the York Revolution our local baseball team. He's the type of guy that seems to be quite the jokester but he's suffered quite a few injuries in the past few seasons. One of our sports editors, Lyzz, had the idea of turning him into a version of the Operation board game. The results were mildly hilarious. Although half-way through I did have to put him on a diet to trim off some of the "love handles". 

New Museum and Visitor Center in Gettysburg

This is the first of a series of pages we'll be doing about Gettysburg. The plan is to have four pages that will join together, in addition to this one. The pages will run each weekend in June leading up to the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in July. This page shows highlights from the new visitor center. The floor plan took me quite a while to get it just right. But one exciting thing about this assignment: I got to travel to the center along with the reporter and photographer on this story. It was helpful to be able to see the space so that I could create the graphic a little better. And we also got kind of a "behind the scenes" look at the cyclorama painting. It is still in the process of be restored, and it was amazing to see the painting up close and also to see the crew working on it with huge lifts. 

Teaching Kids about Saving

Here's an illustration to go along with an article about a class for parents to learn how to teach their kids about money.

Women's History Month

Here's my flying wonder woman. This illustration ran in Sunday's paper and the one below ran in Monday's paper. This is my first series illustration, and I like how they turned out. 

Women's History Month

Here's another illustration used for Women's History. This one goes with a story about younger women with the headline "Wonder women to watch." I wanted to show younger women looking up to those that have made an influence before them. 

Womens History Month

Here's my first attempt at creating an "Every woman Wonder woman" for a story about Women's History Month. I wanted a way to show more than just one face in this icon of the female super hero. And in case you didn't know, every woman IS a super hero with all that we get done in a matter of only 24 hours. 

Christmas and Commercialism

This was the first illustration I created when I started my job at the newspaper. I hadn't started blogging about my artwork at that point, so I never got to share this illustration on-line. Even though Christmas season is long gone, I thought it was still worth sharing this piece. I remember it being a challenge to come up with a way to show how the Christian meaning of Christmas has been changed by our culture of over-indulgence and commercialism. I'm really happy with the way it turned out. It was a thrill to be able to take home the newspaper on Christmas Eve and see my name in print underneath my artwork. 

Logo for Living series

Here's a quick little illustration I made as a logo for a series in the Living section called "What nobody tells you about". The idea behind it is for readers to share from their experiences about certain topics like dieting, dating, breaking up, and whatever else our talented Living staff comes up with. I really liked "coloring outside of the lines".

License plate censorship illustration

This illustration is from about a month ago, but I thought it was interesting enough to share. It ran in the paper in black and white, but I like the color version much better. The article was about censoring what people are allowed to use as their vanity plates.

Black History Month Illustration

Here's the cover for our annual Black History Month tab. I wasn't sure if the details of watercolor  would reproduce well in the newspaper, but I ended up being pleased with the test print. I'm hoping to try out some more watercolor soon. 

Women in business

This graphic was a way to illustrate the idea of women helping other women prompted by a story in Business about a new center for Women Entrepreneurs in York.

Brady's Super Bowl

Here's an illustration I created for our Super Bowl Sunday page. Brady looks so dreamy as he's anticipating his win. I guess things turned out a little differently then he expected.

27 Dresses

This is an illustration I created for a story about the new movie "27 Dresses." I love doing portraits, so it was really fun to try to capture the likeness of Kathryn Heigl. And of course I had to make her dress yellow!