Thursday, March 25, 2010

Las Vegas Sun Illustration

Leaving Las Vegas

This made it on the Newseum's Top Ten.

Here is the final layout with the headline incorporated. Thanks to Rachel Perkins and Spencer Holladay at the Las Vegas Sun:

Leaving Las Vegas Layout

Click below for a close-up of the texture:

leaving_lasvegas_closeup

A couple of the rough sketches:

12 comments:

Connie said...

Perfect for the word and I really appreciated seeing the stages and close-ups.

OakTreeCreeper said...

Awesome. great style!

clara said...

Neat! Thanks for showing your sketches too.

Krista said...

Fabulous!! Great concept!

Jennifer Romans-Smith said...

Love the texture and color. Great concept too.

FHNavarro said...

Great style! I love the colors!!

E. Thompson said...

Nice work and thanks for showing the sketches.

Tom Woolley said...

great artwork and concept - interesting to see the original sketches too.

Tracy Bishop said...

A really smart, thoughtful, and funny interpretation of "rescue". I really enjoyed your process as well. Thank you so much for sharing that.

Anonymous said...

Wow this is awesome! Great texture!

sheree boyd said...

really nice editorial! i love your color choices and the graphic quality. it's nice to see your different sketch ideas as well

roberto M. said...

Beautiful and modern rescue with "backstage"
ja ja.