The New Yorker - Spongebob on Broadway

For the past couple months I've been working in house at a new job, and haven't been doing as much freelance work. I'm still doing illustration, but without the highs and lows of being a pencil for hire (highs: everything coming together at the last minute, lows: every minute leading up to that.) Last weekend I got the chance to get back in the ring with this Spongebob illustration for the New Yorker.

Side note: I've been trying to do almost everything on the Ipad for the last couple of months. I'm still not 100% there with it, but this was the first assignment that I took from start to finish in procreate (mainly sitting on my bed while Spongebob played in the background.)

Double Side note: This is a bit of an embarassing admission, but I'd never watched a full Spongebob episode before this, although I'd seen and loved a lot of the art from the show. Along with everything else there is to love about the show, I loved seeing how rough some of the background art and drawing in the first couple of episodes was. This is a backhanded compliment, but I don't mean it to be. It really is was a good reminder (especially while sweating on a deadline) to put the fun of the drawing ahead of technical perfection. (Anyone looking at my drawings probably wouldn't think I'm too worried about technical perfection to begin with, but believe it or not I am actually trying to draw things as well as I can!)

Anyway, it's been a while since I've posted so that's why your getting a crazy myspace post instead of just a screenshot. Carry on picture people!