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Balls, College Basketballs...

Illustrations of College Basketballs for American Sports Publisher ESPN Books
My friends have been scratching their heads for many years now over this… I tell them we get paid to illustrate or as they call it “draw pictures” and they quickly reply with furrowed brows “why dont you just take a photo?!” This I have heard over and over again for the last twenty years now. I try to explain… its actually more difficult and probably even more expensive to take a photograph and not to the same standard and in a style that matches all the other images in the publication etc etc. but it just doesn’t sink in.
And now, even more so, with the internet and their assumption that a picture of anything is readily available out there on the web for anyone to use as they see fit… they will ask again, even louder and with even more furrowed brows (and quite likely with cheeky grins also because of the subject matter) “WHY?”
Click the image to enlarge and appreciate all the work Mike has put into these little bouncing beauties!