In the next few days, the outstanding FreelanceSwitch.com website will be posting an article I wrote and illustrated called Details Obsession: Four Ways to Take Control of Your Work. The article focuses on an introspective approach to controlling those deliciously pesky details that absorb way too much time. I'll post a link directly to the article once it's up. Meanwhile, here's the illustration I made for it.
I'm designing a business logo for Dru Sellers , a software developer and all-around nifty fellow. We fumbled around early in the design process trying to figure out what visual identity we should affix to the field of software development. After trying several hi-tech, LCD-looking fonts, we decided the best look was from his own signature. He made dozens of them on a scrap paper, and I stylized the best one in Illustrator. Here's a couple of the final options that Dru is currently pondering.
My wife and I just returned from a two-week honeymoon in Italy. We delayed the trip a few months after our wedding hoping that we'd miss the peak tourist season.
Didn't work.
Cinque Terre -- five tiny hill towns perched precariously on cliffs along the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea -- has a reputation for being quiet and relatively undiscovered by tourists. Something changed recently because even in late September, we fought shoulder-to-shoulder crowds and fully booked rooms. We got lucky and found a small apartment room in Corniglia, the smallest and hardest to access of the five towns. This is a watercolor scene onto al mare from the narrow street below our room. Every day starting around 9AM, hundreds of tourists march down this street to the bella vista beyond, but by 7PM or so, the town quiets down and becomes quite magical.
Sugarbowl Falls is a fictional town in the Midwest, and these are some of the characters who live there. It's my illustrated version of Lake Woebegon, with a little more hick 
influence.
A local housecleaning company that uses only natural cleaning products used this image for a promotional contest they sponsored. Participants who could spend an entire month without driving or riding in a car would win free cleaning service, and other cool stuff.
A sketch of a sculpture by Antoni Gaudi, the famous Spanish architect who died a pauper after the construction of his masterpiece Sagrada Familia slowed to a halt due to a series of tragic losses in his life -- including the benefactor of the project.
