this year i have been honored to have the chance to illustrate a majority of the covers for Angie’s list magazine.

the new october issue which addresses with what to do when an elderly parent has passed away or moved and you have to deal with the life time of stuff that they have accumulated.

here are the roughs the art director Tanja Pohl and i deliberated over.

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and with the last minute aide of a great working headline ”

They’re dead
You’re buried

How to get out from under the clutter


this is the sketch that came up

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a sequence of about 100 shots during the process of setting up the clutter, setting up the lighting, adjusting the lighting and getting the image ‘just right’

the final…

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