The trip to Society of Illustrators was an amazing experience. The piece really stood out for me from all the others was “War Music”. The piece was created by Armando Veve for The New York Times. Armando Veve, born in Massachusetts and based in Philadelphia  is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design.  His works has been published by The New York Times, Urban Outfitters, Inc. VICE, Village Voice, Wired , just to name a few.

 Like the majority of his works, “War Music” was dawn in Graphite and digitally. Veve’s works are extremely meticulous and surreal. His attention to detail and the way he uses lines and dots to create his works are just unbelievable. By far this “War music” looks like a drawing of a horse, but when you see it up close, we can see people fighting. Generations of humans from the prehistoric era to the modern era engaged in warfare. Similarly, the piece also shows the evolution of weapons from simple rocks to spear to arrows and swords to guns and missiles. As someone, who primarily works with pencil and pen, Veve’s works has definitely inspired me.

 It was great to see so many works from all the illustrators using different medias for their works.