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The nightmares we have

Here's something recent out of my sketchbook.

Digital Mess

Mr Bubbles

Life inside the bubble. Come on, we all do it sometimes, think about it.

Archival Giclee Pritns

Hi everyone, I've recently put up some of my images to be sold as giclee pritns on Imagekind. The prints come in customizable paper type and framing options. Check them out.

Sketchbook

Here's a couple of recent sketchbook entries with some digital added. See you soon.

Animal Farm

Here is personal piece I just finished. It was good working with a lighter subject matter than my usual, hope you like.

faces

Here something I did for a friend from work. I'm planning to do digital color on it as soon as I get a chance. See you soon.

Promo!

Hi everyone I've just finished putting together my new mailer. I was going for a propaganda poster look. Let me know what you guys think.

Update!

Hi everyone I've just finished redesigning and updating my website. New pieces have been added to both sections so check it out right here.

Comrades

Here's the first two of my Russian politician series. These are of Putin and Jirinovski, who's a known shit talker amongst politicians in Russia. I'm trying to get a few more done before I update the website and start a mass mail out of promos again. See you soon.

juxtapoz

I've just got word from Juxtapoz I'm being featured on their Reader Art section. You can check it out here.

Birthdays, birthdays.

My sister has been asking me for one of these for some time now. Her birthday is tomorrow, hope she likes it. She's as picky about her art as she is about her food. heh.

In other news, I've started a 3 week internship at one of Toronto's best design studios, Pylon. The projects at Pylon are great and the people are even better. Stay tuned to the Portnoy chanel, more to come right after this...

Good things come in twos...

I barely got my feet wet at The Post when Jonathan Kay sent another assignment my way. This one with literally a 3 hour turnaround. I was given the article at 1:15, went through a couple sets of roughs and delivered the final by 4 pm. It was a bit hectic but it definitely taught me how to be quick on my feet in terms of concept. Interesting assignment and Jonathan is a great guy to work with. This article is another excerpt from a book by Pauline Chen. It's about a doctor who saw that having human compassion, rather than a cold professional manner, towards a terminal patient's family can have a great positive effect on helping them cope with a soon and imminent death of a loved one. This piece is published in today's (Saturday) Post page A23, check it out!

I LOVE QUICK TURNAROUNDS!

Some very exciting news! After visiting the National Post this job came my way from Jonathan Kay, the comments page editor. The article talks about the moral dilemma surgeons face when treating terminal patients especially children. The surgeons find it important to seek comfort in the rituals and practices of their trade. The idea I used for it is a doctor who’s protecting herself with a shield in a form of a surgical lamp, while holding an ill child.
I really enjoyed working on this assignment in definitely opened my eyes into how tight deadlines are when it comes to newspapers. Special thanks to Kagan Mcleod and Donna Braggins for helping me with this, lets hope this is a glimpse of things to come! For those of you who are readers of The Post you can check out my piece in the Issues section page A11 of today's (Friday) paper.

INK SPLOTCHES!

Some more fun with ink and digital. See you soon.

a bit of fun

Here's just something out of my sketchbook. I'm curently working on a series of caricatures of past Russian politicians, I'll upload them soon. Hope everyone is having a good summer.

Lord of War

This is a peace I wanted to do for a while now. It’s inspired by the movie “Lord of War” which is based on actual events and is a real eye opener into the world of illegal gun trade. The medium is ink on wood panel with digital. See you soon.

I like Creepy

Happy 45th

Here’s a piece for my dad, who’s turning 45 tomorrow. Like most dads he feels he needs to be the handyman around the house. But things don’t always go as planned and that’s when I get sucked into various renovation projects. I’m sure some of you can sympathize and relate… Uh Paul.

Submerged Drinking

As some of you know I work part time at a Wine Rack store in the heart of little Moscow. From day to day I encounter very interesting individuals that seem to be determined to make it into my store to get their daily drink. They come in, sometimes regardless of severe weather, early or late time of day, or I think any other external natural elements. So here is a piece to celebrate their persistence, this one’s for you guys.

stock crash

In a continuous attempt to make digital my friend, I’ve decided to do this piece. Inspired by a recent horror interview at a brokerage firm that sent me running for the hills and back to the drawing table, literally.

Digital can be fun!

On Thursday May 24, I found myself downtown Toronto visiting Reactor Art & Design. At about 4:30 pm when I left their office, I along side tens of thousands of downtown employees, discovered that the subway service wasn’t operating. This being rush hour the taxis and busses quickly filled up. As the masses of people me included began walking north to see if any other stations were working, one could see the fibers of social structure begin to fall apart. People were literally going nuts. I personally witnessed some people desperately trying to pry the doors open on taxis already filled with pasengers. People were shoving and pushing as they made their way through the crowd slowly moving down Yonge Street. No one seemed to know what was going on. Some were saying that specific stations were operating, others were saying none were working. What resulted is a crowd, resembling the armies of Mordor wandering, yelling and franticly zigzaging in all directions all throughout downtown. All in all my usual 40 min trip took about 3 hours but I arrived home safe and sound without any bite or scratch marks, all though there were few close calls.

Back to Politics

The new president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy defeated the Socialists' Segolene Royal on the May 6th election. Sarkozy is calling for tougher imigration laws and vowed to defend the identety and indipendance of France, while some critics aren't sure if he's up for the task.

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

This is a piece of 'Big Chris' Vinnie Jones from the movie "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels."

A Biblical Story by Oleg

This is my version of what happened in beginning. Enjoy!

Don Cherry

With the Leafs so close to the playoffs I felt I needed to do a piece on Don Cherry. I always knew him and his dog had a special bond.

The Bull

Here's the finished illustration. After seeing Klichko in action during one of his matches I couldn't help but see the resemblance of the huge fighter to that of a bull. His opponent really should have wore different colored shorts.

Klichko

Here's the linier for my next illustration of The Heavyweight Boxing Champion Klichko.

"Oh Those Russians!"

With Putin's latest speech in Munich, criticizing the U.S. for its politics and world relations, whispers could be heard about the start of a new "Cold War." While the Russian media points to the fact that Putin should listen to his own criticism more closely.

Graduating

Graduating can be scary, you're being forced to come out of your personal bubble and face the real world.

Jewish Nationalism

These three illustrations are for an article in The Economist about how young Jews outside of Israel have problems finding a connection with the Holy Land. Some feel living or having a bond with Israel is not necessary for their Jewish Identity, wich the young generation seem to be establishing on their own regardless of where they live.

Miss Universe

I imagined what would have to be done in order to get the world leaders to agree on world peace, this is my solution. The world leaders all enter a miss universe pagent and when asked what they would do if they were to become the nations leader they would all agree on world peace. No offense to the real miss universe contestants out there, you're doing a heck of a job girls!

Republicans at it again

The republican party are once again relying on their old trics. Their "scare" campaign for the 2006 congressional elections once again features their favourite star Bin Laden and has the unmistakable signature marks of Karl Rove.

Baby Billionaires

This is a spread illustration for an article in The Rolling Stones magazine about the "Brat Pack", a group of young entrepreneurs responsible for creating some of the most popular pieces of software like YouTube, Firefox and Facebook. These guys may be worth billions but that doesn't stop them from living the regular student life that they enjoy.

Borat Scandal

It seems everyone wants a piece of Borat, new lawsuits are poping out left and right. I doubt anyone will manage to catch this rascal.

Finlandia Ad (mock up)

My atempt at advetising illustration. This is an ad for Finlandia vodka, my vodka of choice.

Where do you see yourself.

This is a piece depicting some of the types of people I encountered in my life, they actually look like this.