February issue.

Funny thing is, the models for the cover were single when the photo was taken, but they got together sometime during the editing process. Cue the complimentary silhouette-out.

From my friend's column (something about our aggressively laissez-faire attitude towards the environment). Obligatory homage #1: thick-lined comic goodness via the magnificently quirky Dan Piraro, of Bizarro Comics fame.

From our In Depth article on different types of relationships. I think this one was just a filler piece, but its quiet simplicity pleases me.

Another one from the In Depth—this one (about cross-grade relationships) actually ran as the main art, if I recall correctly. Obligatory homage #2: the delightfully languid stylings of the delightful Taryn Gee, who was responsible for one of my most favourite illustrations ever.

Yet another one from the In Depth, this time about couples who were friends before dating.

On-off relationships. I love those two arms; they turned out a lot better than I'd hoped.

Final one from the In Depth, I promise. the writers requested a generic scientist filler piece and I made him a Cupid-esque psychopath because it's dangerous to give vague instructions to artists.

Super twee sports flowchart. The swim captain cutout in particular is a thing of sheer beauty. They had to rearrange the colour section for this one, though, because running it in black-and-white resulted in a more labyrinthine effect than I think anyone was entirely comfortable with.

BONUS

First shot at my friend's column; the blue ball was meant to be Earth, and the dragon is a callback to our school mascot. I like how you can see precisely where I gave up on drawing scales.

First shot at the on-off relationships illo. If IB Biology taught me anything, it's that real hearts > stylised hearts every time.

Second shot at the on-off relationships illo (sketch + semi-finished product). Reusing bits and pieces of discarded ideas is a bit of a specialty of mine.

(Side note: I covered fewer articles this issue because the new semester brought two actual, legitimate artists to the magazine art team. One of them is fantastic and wonderful and has a DeviantART page; the other is fantastic and wonderful and doesn't, sadly.)

Catch you on the flip side, ladies and gents.

September issue.

As the title would suggest, here are some pieces I did for the September 2012 issue of my high school's magazine.

(Click on individual images to embiggen them—Blogger's resizing function tends to play merry hell with image quality.)

For a friend's column about the school's "mission, vision, and values" guidelines. More painterly than I'm used to. (Everything I do is digital unless specified, by the way.)

For an editorial about how nobody ever goes the National Honour Society tutors. As an NHS tutor myself, I can testify to that.

For a Features article (not a typo, the section in the magazine is actually called "Features") about this one investment club that drew a lot of interest at the beginning of the year. I'm not sure if it's still kicking around anymore.

For the main ("In Depth") article about school spirit—our mascot is a dragon. These guys here are pretty zesty, if I do say so myself.

(Also, the reason why everything is in black and white bar this piece is because the magazine runs mostly in B&W with a smattering of colour pages in the middle. Usually this allotment is eaten up by In Depth and a couple other articles that tend towards photography, so my dismal colour theory skillz are thankfully in low demand.)

For a Time Out article about how things will pile up and stress you out. We tend to get really negative around this time of year. Also, I like to think that the dino skull is more of an homage to the absolutely amazing Sam Bosma rather than outright theft.

For an editorial sidebar about the prospect of introducing school uniforms, because we are a non-uniform school with an aggressively laissez-faire attitude towards the dress code.

From another Time Out article about stress. Remember what I said about negativity?

From a sports article about how making the junior varsity team is seen as more of a joke than an honour. I misjudged the precision of the magazine printers and the background came out entirely black, but thankfully the whites survived intact so it just looked a bit starker than intended.

Artwork from later issues will be going up soon, kittens.