This is a poster for a call for entries hosted by the University of Delhi that I was interested in. Writings by philosophers such as Aristotle, Nietszche and Plato have big influences on my life and their writings have also dealt with the ideas of the tragic and the comic. So it only seemed fitting to promote the event! Hope you enjoy!

“Karma”
Stone Litho
22x30 

This image is apart of a group of sketches done in a hand-made sketchbook over a 3 day period and is the first sketch from the beginning of the second day.

Here are a few figures drawn on the way to Chicago from Downers Grove, IL with two of my good friends Nick Sadek and Steph Koblich, whom are also illustrators, great ones at that!

There will be more to come once I have compiled the other images. Enjoy 

Here is a Rembrandt replication I started working on a couple weeks ago. It’s a work-in-progress with a long road ahead to completion. This is one of the few oil paintings I have done, but I love the ability to sculpt the form into just what you are looking for. I can’t wait to go back and layer with more brilliant colors and correct issues such as proportion or lighting. It’s always a great feeling when you get something right after you got it wrong.

“Fresh Fish”

Took a lithography class this past quarter for the first time and came up with some fun imagery. Enjoy!

(If anyone who sees this is interested in this, I have more prints available for purchase as well! Email me at jrr.illustration@gmail.com)

Happy Halloween!

Just finished this piece (for the most part) for a class! I started this yesterday and finished it at about 9pm Sunday. It is based on America sticking its nose in the world’s business, whether it be for good or bad reason. There will be type at the bottom, but it may change so I left that part out for now. Hope you enjoy!

A fish! An attempt at drawing a fish! A fish from life! This summer I interned with the Society of Illustrators and was apart of the NEA-sponsored Summer Illustration Art Academy Program where we visited various museums in NYC. I found this fish at the Coney Island Aquarium on one of our trips.

Every summer my family and I go off to a place called Way Dam Resort in the U.P. (Upper Peninsula ) Michigan. It’s an absolutely beautiful place 40 minutes from the nearest town and right on the Michigamme Reservoir. I have been vacationing there since I was two weeks old and haven’t missed a year, but through all those years, I have yet to draw much of anything from it. So, finally, 21 years later, I drew the cabin we have been staying in for the past few years.