Skiing Magazine spot illustration

This was the last Marmot spot for the '08 season. Out now in February issues. More again in July..

Illustration Friday - "Tales & Legends"

I did this drawing in my sketchbook many months ago, and realized that it fit the Illustration Friday topic. I forget where I saw the image, but I think it was a shot of the actor playing D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers.. the original movie, perhaps? I'm not really a fan of either, I just thought it was an interesting image to draw.

Zodiac Signs

I was commissioned by Bell'Invito to illustrate all 12 Zodiac signs for a calendar, which will be letter-pressed. The creative director gave me the freedom to make them a bit quirkier than the traditional take on the Zodiac signs, so it's been fun coming up with the different concepts. Some are a bit more obvious than others..
I'll likely finish up the last 4 over the next couple weeks, and will post them up when I do.

Sketchbook drawings

These are a couple of drawings I made today. One is a Cambodian man, the other an old Vietnamese lady. I don't know, I guess I'm just in a South-East Asian kind of mood.

Mmmm.. I think I'll suggest Thai for dinner tonight..

"The Ridiculous Race" interior spots

I'm currently working on some interior illustrations for The Ridiculous Race, a book that's being published by Henry Holt. I did the cover for it a few months ago (above), and will soon be doing the back cover and spine as well..

It was cool to be given free reign to design and hand-draw all the type for the cover. I also just finished illustrating a world map for the book that is pretty type-heavy.

New *NEWS* section!

I've come to realize that my old method of posting News updates for Tim Tomkinson Illustration was severely inefficient. Could it be because my last posting was from March of 2007?? Yes, yes that could be an indication...

So I am now officially a "blogger", which is somewhat surprising to me. It just seems to be the easiest, most efficient way for me to keep people updated - whoever cares, that is.. While I don't plan on including much political ranting or scathing social commentary (aside from what may show up in my illustrations), I do plan on keeping people much more up to date with what I'm working on. Plus it seems sort of cool that people can comment on postings & images. So please feel free to comment, whether it's good or bad, and I'll try to comment back in a timely manner.. if needed.

If you want to see any of my old News postings, or just to laugh at how inefficient it was, you can click here: old news (keep in mind it used to pop up in it's own, small window.. so it looked a little better than this)

- Tim