Tim O’Brien’s Rolling Stone cover portrait of David Bowie, circa Ziggy Stardust, was commissioned in celebration of Bowie’s 65^th birthday. (more)

Theispot.com is sponsoring a brand new feature, Illustration of the Day, on the homepage of Print Magazine’s website, printmag.com.  Each of the illustrators who participated in Theispot.com ad pages running in Print’s up-coming Regional Design Annual will be given this homepage position for 3 – 4 days, with a new image displaying daily. (more)

Tim O’Brien breathes life into history with this portrait of young Abraham Lincoln, gracing the cover of the premier issue of National Geographic’s Exploring History. (more)

Tim O’Brien’s portrait of Steve Jobs in the Wall Street Journal is as much a visual tribute as it is a painting. “Jobs was handsome but without flash, much like his aesthetic, he was minimalist but cool, close cropped short hair, simple black turtleneck and his emotions held in check but with an ease of purpose…” (more)

Tim O’Brien was given an article over the summer, to be published in Playboy, about a clandestine program to attempt to breed a human ape hybrid race in the Soviet Union around the time of the Second World War.  The goal was to breed a powerful and vicious soldier. (more)

Concept and execution once again converge flawlessly in this iconic TIME magazine cover by Tim O’Brien. (more)

Tim O’Brien was commissioned by XXL magazine to paint Tupac Shakur as he would look if he were alive today, to mark the 15-year anniversary of the rap legend’s death. (more)

Tim O’Brien painted this cover overnight… in 2002, the first time our government thought they’d eliminated Bin Laden. Nine years later, the portrait finally runs on the iconic cover of TIME Magazine to mark the momentous events of this week. (more)