
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Hellooooo Nurse!

Sunday, December 23, 2007
Sketchbook
Thursday, December 20, 2007
New York Press
TOM - The past two weeks I have been busy illustrating some pretty cool articles for the New York Press. This fist illustration was for a story about a woman who falls is lust with some guy in her yoga class, and winds up sleeping with him in a spare room at the Y. Kinky.
The Art Director wanted to keep it PG13, but still get the point across, she had a great idea of showing the couple kissing, while intertwined in yoga contortions.
I drew up a few sketches around that idea. The AD picked the third from the top.
I think this one was the most suggestive of the bunch, and I really enjoyed drawing their body positions.
Colored it in Photoshop, and it was good to go. Check out the steamy article here.
On to this weeks issue... The main idea behind the illustration for this article was to show how the '20 something' generation has become so used to seeing themselves on T.V. due to an overload of reality television, and now internet reality shows. We worked out a scenario where there is a 20 something sitting in her living room, watching nothing but herself on T.V and internet. I came up with a few different ways of composing it, and the AD picked...
...this one. I inked it up,
then colored it. Check out this article here.
The Art Director wanted to keep it PG13, but still get the point across, she had a great idea of showing the couple kissing, while intertwined in yoga contortions.






Friday, December 7, 2007
Goin' to Rehab.

She has such a unique face. While gathering up photos for reference, I couldn't help but notice that all her emotions are written all over her face. She truly looks crazy. That along with her beehive hair, skinny body, and tons of tattoos, physically makes her such an interesting character. As well as trying to capture her intense, almost scary stare, I tried to echo elements of her life in the background through classic "old school" tattoos. Tortured love, addiction, 50's pin up appeal.


I had drawn the classic tattoos on a separate sheet, then placed them in the background in Photoshop.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Patterns


Also, my website is now updated. Check it out: www.thomaspitilli.com
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Time Out!




Check out this weeks issue to find out how to catch a cab!
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Another Go...

TOM - My friend Mike and I have recently been toying with the idea of collaborating on some kind of Illustration / Design project. We've decided that before anything, we should do some test runs to see if our styles are compatible. Here's what he did to an earlier post of mine. Pretty cool for just about ten minutes of work, I'm excited to see what might come of this.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Jubilee!

Sunday, October 7, 2007
BOX SOCIAL
TOM- This weekend was the opening of the Box Social show at the Secret Robot Project in Brooklyn, which I was fortunate enough to be a part of. The turn out was really great, and Jason Estrin and everyone else who put the show together did a really great job.
There was a really great variety of stuff up on the wall. I liked the clothes line look.
There's my two page Archie spoof.
Here's me and fellow cartoonist Hilary.
My lightning bolt plan fell through due to getting drunk and forgetting about it. Here's to openings!
By the way, the show is up 'till November 8 for more info on location and other stuff click right here.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Spidey!


And here is the black and white piece that I sent in the mail. Later.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
'Perfect' Final Color!


Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Oh no, Tombies!!!




Wednesday, September 5, 2007
"Perfect"


Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Part two



Friday, August 3, 2007
Geisha

TOM- In keeping with adding more of a design element to my work, I'm trying to push myself in terms of composition, and not always having to use perspective or alot of people in the scene to make a drawing interesting. In doing that, this to me feels more like a logo or tattoo design.


Saturday, July 21, 2007
SounD!

TOM- The quote is something that popped in my head one day, so i wrote it down in my sketch book alongside that drawing of the 'pomp' girl. Then i drew the 'fro' girl the other day also screaming/singing, and thought the two of them might look good in an illustration together. I've been wanting to play around with illustration and text lately, since I've been looking at these Morning Breath guys stuff , which has been very inspiring. I'm not a graphic designer, so my choice in text is based on pure instinct and guessing. I knew i wanted the feel of several different style fonts making up the sentence, but i wasn't exactly sure how to execute it. Maybe it'll just be something to play around with...
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
More big hair!

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