Outside Magazine

It’s been awhile since I posted something.  Holidays, work, excuses.  Anyhow here’s one that I recently worked on that I had a lot of fun with.  The story is about Colton Harris-Moore, an 18 year old “bare foot bandit” who among many things has stolen 3 airplanes, crash landed them and lived!  So far he’s been elusive  to the police and this has brought him to cult hero status or Colt Hero status . . . . .

This is the final art and layout

Here’s some sketches.

My first idea went to him ducking behind a tree and disappearing.

Then the AD wanted more of a portrait so I steered it towards this direction.  Initially I was just going to have some trees outside the windows but they allowed me to smash the windows in so I took it as far as I could at that point.

Here’s the final version without the crop

They liked my original idea so much that they decided to use it as a quarter page.  So I finished it.  Then it was later killed because they wanted to use photography.  Regardless I like the finished result.

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