I found more illustrations from way back recently. It’s incredible, the amount of original art that piles up in my studio’s filing cabinets! I am archiving these just in time– the rubber cement (widely used back in pioneer days, the … Continue reading
New Yorker Years
Once again, I return to my collection of New Yorker illustrations. These images are new to this blog. It was a great privilege to be called on to produce the art for this august publication— I read it every week … Continue reading
Annual Report
It’s Annual Report time, and I thought I’d share some work I’ve done over the years for various AR projects. Above, the New York Life Building. Following are a few of the Interior Illustrations of NYLife Exec’s… The above was … Continue reading
Conceptual Art
When I was the lead in-house illustrator at The Wall Street Journal, in the 1980′s, an emphasis evolved at the paper towards producing conceptual illustration for many of the feature articles. The New York Times had been doing this for … Continue reading
Mean Machine
Back when I was in art school, just embarking upon my illustration career, I produced a comic strip. I don’t believe this strip was created in response to any assigned homework; it was merely an expression of stuff I wanted … Continue reading
Trees
I love trees. As a youth, I climbed many. From getting my hands thoroughly resined by an easy-to-climb giant fir in a neighbor’s yard, to later scaling an elegant maple in my own backyard to read a book or merely … Continue reading
Figuratively Speaking
I recently received the assignment of portraying a veterinarian with one of her patients. I had fun with it, and didn’t charge extra for the whiskered fellow. I’m sending the original out tomorrow, so this is a sneak-peek. I also … Continue reading
All Tied Up
I came across a sheet of sketches recently, and thought I’d share these with you. I don’t recall the client, but I imagine it was a guys’ magazine that commissioned the art. In any case, I thought these sketches elegant… Looks … Continue reading
Sprouls Method — the Hedcut
all illustrations, Kevin Sprouls All right, everyone, gather ’round! I’m going to show you all how I create those iconic portraits, in the style I introduced to the Wall Street Journal, still seen around the world today. The required … Continue reading
Food and Drink
More on food, drink, and the illustrations pertaining to such. The above is an image I produced for Toth Design in Boston, as in Beantown. I spent a few years doing illustrations for a long series of Brooks Brothers … Continue reading









