It's All About Me

I am tickled, and honored.
I've been doing illustrations for the Adirondack Explorer for over 14 years. And now, my friends at the Explorer have just released an anthology of some of those illustrations in a lovely 50 page book titled "A Jerry Russell Retrospective". Each page includes an illustration and a brief synopsis of the article that it accompanied in the original issue. (sample pages below)

You can get your own FREE copy when you subscribe to the Explorer.
http://www.adirondackexplorer.org/index.php

Giant Hogweed

Another one for the Adirondack Explorer. Giant hogweed is a very large (some over 20 feet tall), noxious cousin of Queen Anne's Lace.

Freshwater Sponges

Who knew? Evidently, freshwater sponges live in cold streams in the Adirondacks. Here's an illustration I did for the upcoming issue of Adirondack Explorer about the subject. The colors are very saturated and brighter than they appear in print. This is intentional so that on newsprint, the colors don't look too dull.
1. Sketch 2. Line art  3. Final art.

Concept sketch

Line art

Final art. Line art is scanned and color is added in Photoshop.