JAMES O'BRIEN STUDIO

Sprick is a term from my school days, junior high. Using your thumb, you held back your finger, tensing it up, and then, when you loosened your thumb, your finger snapped out at its target, the earlobe of the person sitting in front of you for example, causing sharp pain. I was usually on the receiving end of this.

This is also how you flick a paper football. But we called it sprick rather than flick, probably because it sounded less friendly.

A series of "monster" drawings I created, quick spontaneous journal drawings that I then made into gif animations.

An illustration for a story about how the brain responds to 40hz frequencies.

An animated drawing I made from an illustration for Summit Business Media for a story about "knowing the ingredients of the fund."

An illustration for The Wall Street Journal for a story about commercial real estate businesses owned by NY families forming an investing group to foster technology development in the real estate industry.