There is a pretty good story behind this illustration. It was June of 2007 and I was really wanting to get into editorial illustration. Just as I was getting my portfolio together to try to hawk it to some magazines around town, the art director for Tribeza called me. I had met him some years before, but my work must have made enough of an impression that he decided to call me up two years later to see if I would be interested in a monthly illustration gig. My first assignment was an illustration to accompany an article written about the pit falls of pagents. In particular, Miss Teen Texas. It just so happened, that at the time my cousin, Sommer, was the reigning Miss Teen Texas. I was able to use an image of her in one of the dresses she wore, which happened to work perfect with the concept of the piece. The staff at Tribeza loved it because it had such a personal touch. It was the perfect piece to start my tenure at Tribeza.
