Get Reading- Blog by Randy Pollak

Halloween is on the MOVE (get it? cause the moving and such)

Randy Pollak — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:44:07 +0000

Another addition to my little growing gallery of motion ilustrations! Check the youtube channel for updates! get moving!

Things are really starting to MOVE around here!

Randy Pollak — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 02:17:04 +0000

If you haven't noticed already, I've added a new link to the main navigation of the site. "GET WATCHING" is the new YOUTUBE channel I've set up to house the After Effects work I intend to begin undertaking as part of the editorial illustration work I take on. I've uploaded the first video- a piece I created based on the illustration I recently completed for Associatoins Now magazine. I hope to do more of these "motion-illustrations" as time goes on and magazines begin the transition to tablet based devices in favor of, or in additoin to, print. So here we go- let's get moving!

Long time no see!

Randy Pollak — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:19:11 +0000

I realize it's been a while since I've posted here. I have been busy! I've just completed work on a series of 7 pieces that will take you through a very unusual day in New York. So excited to show this new work. Look for it in the Village Voice (if you are here in NY) in the next week or two. Afterwards, I'll post them here on the blog. See you soon!

Tiger

Randy Pollak — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:21:05 +0000

An older piece I did of Tiger Woods. Just a bit of practice.

Who Left the Window Open?

Randy Pollak — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:27:02 +0000

This is an older job and one I was always sort of torn about. It never really got me excited like some of my other images do but there was...something I liked about it. See, I like including people wherever I can to my work. I like people. So it is as much to my surprise as anyone's that I submitted the sketch for this job to begin with. But it got accepted to go to finish and here it is. It's not a perfect work by any means and I would have liked to have had someone in the piece. BUT I thought it kind of a ballsy move to make the city green. My palette, while not usually what anyone would consider "natural", doesn't usualy go as "out there" as to make a green cityscape. But here it is. There's kind of a strange lit-from-below thing happening with the chair in the corner. The creepy lighting and the weird cityscape color goes towards making the whole thing feel a little foreboding, a little "off". We have a NOIR-thing going on. THe GREENS, REDS and YELLOWS make me think of those great pulp novel covers. Some of the light and dark work- specifically the unnatural hilight on the panes of glass in the windows, and those shapes of the open window frames themselves remind me of the amazing Tamara De Lempicka. Maybe my human element was JUST HERE and left in a hurry, without closing the window, letting the papers are fly out the window. Que noir music!

Unions

Randy Pollak — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:14:43 +0000

Now seems like a good time to post this illustration I recently completed for American School Board Magazine concerning the attempts to decertify teachers unions and how this time, attempts may prove to be successful. The paper doll metaphor was initially thought of by my wonderful wife while the other inspirations were the great Saul Bass' poster for EXODUS and the 1980's movie poster for TEACHERS.

The Future of Financial Advice

Randy Pollak — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:12:52 +0000

Here's a bit of a progression of one of the last jobs I did for the cover of RESEARCH magazine. The article concerned the future of financial advisors and how they would communicate with their clients. The Art Director wanted to show our Advisor talking to holographic projections of his clients. I've enclosed the final approved sketch along with the first iteration which showed the outer space background and the younger (and devilishly handsome) advisor. The final featured the older and more appropriate advisor along with the leafy neighborhood outside the window. As another little note: I got to use a TEENY TINY bit of ZBRUSH on this one for the holographic projectors!

I should be sleeping...

Randy Pollak — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:48:12 +0000

But instead I'm painting John Lennon. Go figure.

I'm a Loser

Randy Pollak — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:03:03 +0000

Well, not really but I certainly didn't win the Tekserve Mac FAQ cover contest. Here's my entries though...

Investment Advisor and CS5

Randy Pollak — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:30:47 +0000

New work for Investment Advisor magazine featuring the new painting tools in Photoshop CS5. The article was about having a succession plan in your business. I've included the photo used to create the man riding the giant eagle and the result of the new painting features. Might be a new trend for me in my work moving forward...