Last fall I was hired by one of my regular clients, CPC Intersect, to create some FPO comp art to promote a new line of potato chips from Green Giant (which is owned by General Mills). CPC Intersect specializes in "event marketing". They excel at creating fun, creative events designed to help raise awareness of new products and services. They...
This afternoon I received a package from Highlights! magazine. Inside was a letter informing me I've been chosen to receive the Illustrator of the Month Pewter Plate Award, and a shiny silver plate with my name inscribed. Very classy. I'm surprised and very honored. Every issue of Highlights is full of wonderful artwork from several very charming illustrators. It's a...
2012 was another jam-packed year. In addition to surviving another presidential election and a Mayan apocalypse, my wife and IÂ welcomed our third daughter into the world. I also stayed very busy in the studio working on lots of fun projects for clients in the toy industry (most of which I can't show), as well as some advertising comp art (such...
Most of my client work is done digitally on my Cintiq, but when it comes to personal sketches every once in a while I go back to my roots and draw on good-old paper. Often I doodle on blank greeting cards. If one of them turns out really well I may mail it out as a special promotional piece, either...
Merry Christmas everyone! I'd like to use the occasion of Christmas to post a link to an animation project I developed in 2010 for the ministry of Living Waters. They hired me to produce a short cartoon that explains the basic Christian message, and in a round-about way I hope it helps explain why the birth of Jesus Christ was...
I've been too busy to design, print, and mail an actual Christmas card this year. So once again I went the digital route and sent a Christmas email with the above image to everyone on my mailing list. (Click the image to enlarge). If you didn't get one, you are welcome to sign up over to the right of this blog...
