Drawing the News

I started the series, “Drawing the News” in 2012 as a warmup exercise so I wouldn’t have to think about what to draw when I first sit down at my desk. The series now has nearly 2000 drawings.

Drawing the News, is regularly updated with new imagery. It is a series of drawings I started as a warmup exercise so I wouldn’t have to think about what to draw. It has become a lasting and impactful series of reportage-style drawings that capture the world from day-to-day. I like to think of it as being in the vein of Gerhard Richter’s “Baader-Meinhof” paintings in that photographs propose objectivity and I am merely translating those to improve my skills, but a narrative (or multiple narratives) arise when you look at the series as a whole.

The series has been included in the American Illustration annual 5 times, and has been included in several gallery shows over the years.