I found my sketches to the David Patterson piece I did, plus the original creative brief from the editor. Interesting, the article talked about how David Patterson was a young up and coming politician who by virtue of his being a New Yorker and black was either going to be associated with a Liberal Centrist like David Dinkins, or a rabble-rousing black-pride populist like Al Sharpton.

Here were my two sketches I faxed to the editor for consideration, the first one below was on my cover sheet

The one I preferred, but which I thought they would be too scared of using was so much better though, here it is below:

So, of course they chose the safer one, below is the color sketch I did for them, because we thought it was going to be on the cover:

To see the final piece, you’ll have to go back to the original article David Patterson, New York Governor