Quantum Uncertainty - Process

Scientific American is one of those milestone clients for me. I was pretty excited when Michael Mrak called, but the story itself was what sold it to me. It was well within my gamut of interests. I had a lot of fun with it. Here is the process from sketch to finish. I'm not posting thumbnails this time. There were some pretty cool ones that I want to use for some personal work later.

Summer Work - Jason Raish

spot for the Washington Post father's day edition about wether Dad's should teach their kids to fight. ran in black and white in the paper and in color online.







spot for Rides magazine about Drama Beats crashing a go kart.





spot for the Wall St. Journal sunday edition about a woman who's love for cooking almost ruins her family.

spot for golf magazine about a guy's ball getting eaten by an alligator

spot for MotorTrend Classic magazine about a few cars that the writer missed out on driving. the title was "The Ones that Got Away". one of the cars was a French blue 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Coupe

spot for Radio Times (UK) about two British chefs who go to Paris to cook British food for the French who are infamous for being picky eaters. the title of the piece was "To Paris with Parsnips".

spot for Emory Alumni magazine about recognizing your own inner beauty

sketch of my buddy and artist marco pardo in barcelona last summer. he loves picos and miga de pan (breadcrumbs) are everywhere in spain

Runner's World: Race Day Disasters!!

Recently I finished a set of illustrations for the October issue of Runner's World which should be on the shelves any day now.  The article, by Selene Yeager, is about the nightmarish situations that can happen to runners on the day of the big race. AD Benjamen Purvis and I had the idea of depicting these moments in a pulp style reminiscent of the old paperbacks and magazines.  So, I painted a series of illustrations showcasing each terrible event that all runners probably have nightmares about. Benjamen did a wonderful job displaying them throughout the article and really gave the opener that extra bit of energy with his excellent and ingenious text design.  This was a great collaboration and really fun job all around.

Here are two of my favorites without any text on them.  Really have to thank my wife for being such a good sport.

Lots of Work - Jason Raish

spot for the Washington Post about snow shoveling related injuries



spot for MotorTrend Classic about the author's visit to the 1989 LA Auto show when he came face to face with two dream cars.



spot for MotorTrend Classic about how taking a 12 cyliner engine out of a Lamborghini and replacing it with an 8 cylinder is like removing its soul.



spot for the NY Times about how the NY Giants aren't that good, they win by some kind of magical fairy dust or something





Wedding board for my old roommate Naoki in Tokyo.  In Japan they put up a "wedding board" at the entrance of the wedding reception and its usually a big head little body caricature of the couple so they were happy to get this instead.



Wedding board for another one of my old roommates in Tokyo.  they wanted pink because the wedding was in april when it's cherry blossom season.  after Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss"





spot for golf magazine about golf rules.  this one is about a ball coming to rest on a frog.



spot for golf magazine about golf rules.  this one is about an eagle grabbing a ball mid-air.



spot for the final issue of UTNE about how Neanderthals mated with humans way back in the day.  the title of the story is "Stone Age Sex".  AD'd by the wonderful Stephanie Glaros.

It's Been a While

cover for march 2012 discover magazine.  my first nationally circulated magazine cover.  Albert Einstein's rules of space, time, and gravity my be overturned.







private commission.  Maifun, a Spanish Harlem born Shar Pei.



utne magazine about using old diapers to grow food like mushrooms.  kind of gross right?



Emory alumni magazine about embracing the great unknown.



spot for gold magazine's rules guy column about removing debris from the ball.



motortrend classic magazine about pebble beach judges choosing this one car as the winner.  can't remember what it was but the hood ornament was an art deco eagle.



motortrend classic magazine about the current ferrari head and the old original Ferrari head.  whose name of course is something Ferrari.



full page for westchester magazine about Westchester being diverse.  this was my attempt at a black and white leave it to beaver style multi-ethnic family.  it's supposed to be an african american mom, indian son, asian dad, and hispanic son.