Award-winning New York book designer Henry Sene Yee.
I based this work off of his signature image of his three-year old passport. He references him self as a "little grumpy old man". In the original photograph he's indeed wearing a bow tie, so I decided it would be a great thing to exaggerate with a vaudeville-approach. It's actually the same bow-tie he's wearing in the original. The strength of the lighting in the original made this illustration extremely rewarding. The books featured are covers that he's designed and/or art directed for various publishers.
Please make sure to check out his work at his book blog.
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