Lecture at Fashion Institute of Art (FIT) tomorrow! Wed. March 24th 2010.
Come see me mumble my way through how I got my first job in illustration if you are in New York City! And maybe a beer afterword.
I’ll explain later.
Home you like my latest effort, and I mean EFFORT! in the video intro. Please e-mail me what you think or to commission a job at… fred (at sign) fredharper dot com. Sorry for the code. I hate the spam bots!
First cover of 2010 for The Week.
The 2nd one.
The latest cover for The Week. Came out Fri. Feb 12.
I ask for patience while I figure out my Final Cut program for video. Just have zero time to figure it out! Here are some recent things I’ve been painting.
Kim Jong Il cover for The Week Magazine.
The government owns GM Obama as a used car salesman. Cover for The Week.
This is one of a bunch of quick studies in gouache on Bristol. Simple color, nothing fancy, just simple look and draw and paint. I’ll share some more later.
Two jobs, two very different images. Sports Illustrated wanted a caricature plus a horse. Big Brown in this case with his owner, Michael Iavarone, riding him. The Week Magazine wanted a landscape. I don’t do much architectural rendering. I just wanted to get the character of the White House. The sign was the main point, so I blurred the WH and laid the fence that I painted on another paper over top of the blur. It saved me a bit more time. I could work on a landscape painting for ever if I didn’t have a deadline. I tried not to spend too much time on this so I didn’t get too attached.
Sports Illustrated…
… and The Week Magazine.
If you are in New York City this weekend, please stop by my table at MOCCA!
I participated in the American Scottish Society’s annual John Muir charity golf tournament. I guess the money raised supports the summer youth employment at the Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. I got off the train dressed for golf in a white golf shirt, plaid shorts, white hat, and bag full of golf clubs. I think I might have stuck out a little. I seemed to be one of the only people who took the train. I felt like I snuck up on the people at the registration table. They were set up to receive people from the front entrance where the parking lot was. Regardless, they took me right in. I bought 20 raffle tickets since they were helping employ kids in the area. I got some food and put my tickets in to the cups I wanted a chance to win a prize for. Met Warren, my friend at the Society of Illustrators. He introduced me to his friends I’d be playing with in our foursome. Houston and Jimmy. After a short ceremony reminding everyone who John Muir was and that the course was the oldest public course opened in 1898, we were off. Girls in golf carts full of beer drove around selling beer and my game got steadily worse. My big shot? Why, thanks for asking! I came about 19 inches from making a hole in one at a par 3 hole. Other than that, I lost about 10 golf balls.
It’s nice not doing a politician again! Unless Charles Barkley decides to run for some office. Not sure when SI comes out, so hopefully this isn’t a spoiler. 
This is what will be printed.
I fiddled in photoshop a little to make the BG dark. They still went with the first one. Except for a few tweaks in PS it’s gouache on bristol.