121107_sports-quiz-2

121107_sports-quiz-2, originally uploaded by wes_rand.

A quick illustration -- initially it was going to be a spot drawing but turned out to be a centerpiece illustration -- to go with a sports quiz feature. Usually I use the program Painter to add color but I used Photoshop for this because I had to get it done quick.

Microsoft Surface Parody

Perfect voiceover. Love the part about getting directions!

Venture Bros. Opening

This is a great cartoon. Lots of pop references -- especially from the era I grew up in -- and great writing.

Ms. Pacman video

I really love this video -- I used part of it in a video I linked lower down in this blog -- and thought I'd link it here. Great song and clever visuals.

Karen & Reg Wedding slideshow

I've been trying to embed the video from within YouTube but keep getting errors. So I'm going to try and do it the old fashioned way: paste the embed code.

Jared, my son, loves to watch this video. He keeps digging it up out of my YouTube account. I suspect that the likes watching it to help refresh his memory of that great day. And he probably doesn't remember much of it as he was pretty young. Or he just likes the song. Or he's a hopeless romantic!

120207_Credit-fees

120207_Credit-fees, originally uploaded by wes_rand.

A quick drawing for our Consumer section (comes out Sundays.) I found out drawing a pile of papers is much more time consuming than I imagined!

Video slideshow

Hartford Courant Work for SND 07
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This is a slide show of work done by the Hartford Courant in the last year I put together for the Society of Newspaper Design convention in Boston, 2007.

Home Heating Prices On Fire

Heating-fire, originally uploaded by wes_rand.

A simple drawing done for an article about the skyrocketing price for home heating. A little less color texture that I usually do but it seemed to fit.

This drawing hit a soft spot coming just a couple days after going on an overnight camping trip with my son and his Webelos pack. It got very cold (below 20 degrees at one point) and we stuck close to those campfires.

Gives you a lot more appreciation for home heating systems.

Cheney 101907

Cheney 101907, originally uploaded by wes_rand.

I tried a little bit different method with this illustration. I worked up pencil drawings for the characters and scanned those into the computer. Then cleaned them up a little and bumped up the levels so the pencil lines were pretty black. I then moved the drawings into a vector drawing program (Adobe Freehand) where I positioned the drawings, added color and arrows.

I don't think it's quite as smooth looking as most of my drawings but it was a bit faster and made editing the color easier.

Golf Stories

golf-06-2007caddies, originally uploaded by wes_rand.

I'm just setting up so just seeing if this will all really work. I was trying something new with this illustration: using a set of colors across a series of illustrations. Didn't always work out too well but was an interesting exercise.