An illustration I completed for American Cowboy, the Backward Glance column, in 2007
I just placed my portfolio on the world’s biggest illustration marketplace: the iSpot. This was a move I considered for a long time, as I have built up a considerable portfolio if published illustration. The gallery I posted here contains a sampling of recent work, all digital.
In gathering my portfolio to post on the iSpot, I discovered some works I had not paid much attention to since they had published. Take this one, for example. This was for an article in American Cowboy magazine, a column called Backward Glance. The story was about William Pickett (1870-1932), a mixed-race cowboy who was best known for a rodeo activity called “bulldogging”, wherein a steer is subdued by being bit on the lip. Bill Pickett was famous for this type of cattle wrestling, and for this was inducted into the National Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1972.
My strategy was to demonstrate a brave cowboy with crazed ferocity taking on a large bovine. The steer’s eyes are a bit crazy, perhaps taken by surprise at the brazen attack from this cowboy.
This image has been added to my illustration portfolio.