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For today's NYT Op Ed piece on the problems that limiting US air power in Afghanistan causes for troops on the ground. Really enjoyed painting this piece, it took me back to my childhood "hobby" of building model airplanes. Nothing like trying to follow complicated directions when you are 8 yrs old and have a buzz from sniffing model glue. Too bad I blew them all up as soon as they were finished. I could have really used them as reference. Art director was Aviva Michaelov, of course.



The rough ideas I sent in. Aviva picked my favorite, which ironically was the first idea I came up with, which is very rarely the case.



Preliminary drawing.

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This was for Rhode Island Monthly. It ran cropped and the story was very local, but I thought the image as a protest against the bigger issue of modern slavery in the form of sex trafficking was worth blogging about. Here's a good link to get involved: http://www.stopx.org/   AD was Dean Welshman.

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Seems like anybody can have a reality tv show now. This was an 11 by 19 inch illustration for the Los Angeles Times. Really glad I bought an oversize scanner awhile back.



The story was about the both the endless variety and the mundaness, so I had to cover both in the roughs. I'm so glad Judy Pryor ,the smart AD on this one, went with the hair roller cameras.



Here's the how the it looked as the section cover.

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I always liked the new yorker cover of about 10years ago with santa holding up a newborn baby and how it captured both Christmas and New Years. So this year I decided to see if I could do a holiday card that combined both in a fun way.

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This was about a young LAPD officer targeted for a retribution killing by the Mexican mafia. He was gunned down in his own driveway while moving one of his child's car seats. I was really pleased with AD Darrick Rainey's design and typography.



Darrick challenged me to do something completely different and conceptual for this shooting story (appartently they've done alot). So that made me a bit nervous.



Color wise I favored the red mass, but I felt the black shape helped establish the main character better.



Darrick requested I rely on line work to establish the detail rather than my more textured style, because of printing concerns. Which was fine by me, I find line work a bit more relaxing to do anyhow, although it's not my strength.



A little detail of the concept.

]]> Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:11:53 EST http://www.drawger.com/alexnabaum/index.php?section=articles&article_id=9066

Kid's are so hard to scare these days, so I had to go a different route. It's for a series of holiday and greeting cards that will be for sale in a collection.

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