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.