When I was young I would often redraw an image from comic books. I could learn a lot from copying what other artists had done. Why did they draw this muscle this way? Why did they put this line here? Why did they include this detail but not that one? Why this pose? Studying a professional artist's work is a...
Generations is a Christian organization focused on ”biblical family, discipleship, and education”. They hired me to illustrate a cover for a phonics textbook they were publishing. They had some existing mouse characters (a boy and a girl mouse) and wanted me to illustrate them in a family scene with the word balloon, ”Teach me to read God’s word”. It was...
When people want to buy a snowmobile, whether it's at a retail showroom or an event, they sometimes bring their kids along with them. Polaris decided to create an activity/coloring book for kids that they could give out to their littlest customers. They hired Six Speed marketing to create the book, and Six Speed in turn hired me to illustrate...
Spypoint is a Canadian company that makes trail cameras for deer hunters. To help promote their FLEX camera they hired me to illustrate a tough-looking cartoon dear in a muscular flexing pose. They've given me permission to show the work I did for them. I started with some rough thumbnails exploring possible poses: Based on their feedback I worked up a tight...
MAD was a long-running magazine that used cartooning and humor to make fun of American culture. The cartoonists at MAD were some of the best in the business. In my opinion much of their work still holds up as very strong even today. Every issue included a comic strip parody of a blockbuster movie. If a movie was a hit MAD tried...
More sketchbook practice. I drew this last night while re-watching the John Wayne classic THE COWBOYS. (There are no snakes in the movie. It's just a good flick to have on in the background while doodling buckaroos.) ...
