The New Yorker
On Outscoring My Father
The assignment was to illustrate an essay by Tom Beller in which he uses basketball metaphors as a way of measuring himself against his late father.
Client: The New Yorker / Art Director: Aurora Colon / Software: Adobe Photoshop / Year: 2022 /
Client: The New Yorker / Art Director: Aurora Colon / Software: Adobe Photoshop / Year: 2022 /
Sketches
ItIn both sketches I wanted to show the narrator on the day he scores a hundred points in a game, where the figure of the father is symbolically essential.
Final Illustration
In the final illustration, we can see the reflection of the protagonist which is that of his father as an apparition at the moment of the free throw.