The Lawnmower Man • Editorial Illustration • Inverse • 2022

Illustration for Inverse: The Oral History of The Lawnmower Man - https://tinyurl.com/Inverse-Lawnmower
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Shocking though this may be, lawnmowers hadn’t been on my wishlist of subjects to illustrate(*). And yet! I came up with a few other concepts sans gardening machinery, but I thought this one would be fun and I'm so glad the editor agreed. I love that about commissioned work: getting to learn about topics and developing ideas I wouldn't have reached on my own.
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Thanks to Jake Kleinman and Claire Cameron at Inverse for the project, and Jake for letting me run with this idea.
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* Though actually I love mechs, robots, spaceships, sci-fi contraptions, steampunk, etc. My comfort zone has long been organic forms, but I’d like to eventually rectify the lack of these things in my portfolio.
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