VIBE illo







Hey guys, today I had the pleasure of receiving the VIBE May 2008 issue with my illustration in it. I'm real stoked with how the piece turned out with the type applied. It was great working with their art director Mark Shaw, who is doing some great things with the mag! All around good experience! As a bonus I had great company with Frank Stockton having a great piece a couple articles after mine. I hope he posts that on his blog.
take care,
-francis

ps. I guess my blog looks different depending on what browser you are using. It looks fine on Explorer but when I open it in Firefox it is misalligned. I managed to fix it for Firefox but now when I open it in Explorer it is REALLY out of whack. So I reset it. If anybody has any ideas, that would be of great help!!

17 comments:

Jeffrey Alan Love said...

Congrats, Francis! That's a great piece.

TREY BRYAN said...

awesome piece man, thanks for the comments...twins

Anonymous said...

Alright, Francis!!!! This is only the beginning!! EMV

Vincent Hui said...

hey francis,

thanks for the kind words. and same goes to you. beautiful work you have there.

niki@heynikiniki.com said...

holy crap!
congrats, francis! keep on rockin'

Sarah Watts said...

It's so awesome that in a previous post you mentioned wanting to work for Vibe one day. I bet you didn't expect it to be so soon. You rock dude.

Anonymous said...

great work man!!! love the feeling of atmosphere and temperature. i hope this turns out to be a regular gig for you. can't wait to see what else you've got up your sleeves.

Shawn Escott said...

Well done Francis! Great likenesses and overall feel.

Haylee said...

Congrats, it looks awesome! Also, thanks for the kind comments, they're a great motivation.

FML said...

Duuuude, it turned out monstorous for sure. I think it should've made the cover, Lil' Wayne is overrated. Keep it up homeboy, much love from one Francis to another!

Chanp said...

hey man, totally loving ur new work.

OWEN FREEMAN said...

Congrats man, that's a great piece!

michael a. gonzales said...

i just discovered your work recently. i love your work;its beautiful. i wrote the al green review in the same issue.

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Andre Barnwell said...

BIG UP BIG UP. Im gonna go cop that rightnow. Man Im happy for you still thats a big accomplishment, to me. I read that stuff once in a while but now I got a real good reason. Maybe you can get me back into xxl and the source.LOL. take care

E said...

the annoying problem with the different browsers, boy, do I know about that!

Great stuff here, bookmarked it. Best thing besides the sketches is the painting with the white face, on the photo it really looks like 3D.

Mónica Calvo said...

Your work is amazing!!!! Thanks a lot for visiting my site (=^_^=)
have a lovely day!!

Pointpusher said...

Hey man, saw this in VIBE the other day. Congrats and as always, your stuff is wonderful man. Keep on making amazing pieces man.