Johns Hopkins Magazine

A cover piece and internal image from earlier in the year. These were for a feature about a mans boyhood obsession with the Yeti, which turned into something of a lifelong search, and ultimate discovery of, the Yeti as a metaphor for the human experience in the wild.

I jumped at the chance of illustrating this story, for the nostalgia as much as the beautifully written story. My own awareness of the Yeti was as a kid in a pre-internet age when concepts like abominable snowmen actually seemed like a realistic possibility, or at the very least they occupied more than the split-second consideration they'd get now, before being dismissed as ridiculous. Almost makes you miss the naivety of those times.

These were a couple of the alternative sketches for the cover.