Jan Baalsrud – The Strength of Human Will

A note on the process: The base 3D map was created in E-on Vue 9 CGI software with data from Google Maps. The rest of the image was completed in Adobe Photoshop. The dimensions of the ship on the upper left corner are obviously exaggerated for effect. Baalsrud in the late-1950s, while serving as a [...]

The Conquest of Mt. Everest

Some choice quotes from the returning heroes: “  Well, George, we knocked the bastard off. ” – Edmund Hillary to friend, George Lowe, after coming down from the mountain. “ It has been a long road … From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who [...]

The Raid – Operation “Neptune’s Spear”

-click image to enlarge- Okay, everyone has been following this bit of recent news, but facts and logic seem small in comparison to sensationalist hyperbole. Australia’s Herald Sun carries an action movie-style graphic here showing Bin Laden on the roof of his house, defiantly blasting incoming U.S. helicopters with automatic fire. The Daily Express‘ headlines [...]

Somalia, 3 October 1993

-Click to see higher resolution – This illustration was created using Google’s SketchUp 8 and Adobe’s Illustrator and Photoshop. I have always been fascinated by the techniques used by the larger newspaper organizations to create some of their art. Matthew Erickson did the original Blackhawk down graphic for the Philadelphia Inquirer to accompany Mark Bowden’s [...]

Tobruk 1941

Road to Tobruk | PDF | 41 Pages | 16 Megabytes Tobruk 1941-42 (3e) When the German General, Erwin Rommel, landed in Libya during the Second World War he found a strange land almost devoid of life. The majority of the population lived in small towns along the coast where the land was green and [...]

The Great War – A Novella and Artwork

The Executioner’s Drag | PDF | 50 Pages When Lt. James Sheffield is posted to the Western Front in the spring of 1918 as a replacement pilot, the war resembles a romantic adventure, a manufactured feat of arms to decide the best nation in Europe, if not the world. His squadron commander is a hardened [...]