Thursday, December 11, 2008

Spring Street Studio

I've been getting back into the swing of figure drawing lately, thanks to the kind folks over the Spring Street Studio in SoHo. If you are looking for nice quiet place to log some model time, I recommend you head over. So expect plenty of future posts full of me showing off my prodigious abilities, but for now here is small preview.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

New York Times Book Review

Nicholas Blechman, the incredibly easy going AD at the New York Times Book Review, e-mailed me a few days ago for an Illustration featuring the British novel Peripheral Vision by Patricia Ferguson and of course I accepted. It was a little rough for me as I basically had 48 hours to go from sketch to final, but all in all it worked out pretty well and in the end I had a ton of fun.

The accepted sketch.

Some fun reference provided by my apartment mate and fellow illustrator Wesley Allsbrook, who's site you can check out here .

The finished ink.


And lastly the final. Thanks to Mr. Blechman this should be available on news stands either this weekend or next. If you feel like seeing it bigger be sure to check it on my site at www.aschmidtstudio.com.

And if for some reason you are interested in the review itself, it is available online at