Time for my annual Good Friday post: Today is Good Friday, the day Christians celebrate the torture, crucifixion, and death of Jesus Christ. So why is it called “good?” Because it was a good day for you and me. Earlier in my career I illustrated this 8-page cartoon Gospel tract. I hope it will help explain. If you like the tract, you can download...
Recently the Goldfish Swim School chain approached me looking for a new mascot to use in their promotional materials, signage, and merchandise. They wanted something cute and kid-friendly that could also be posed or dressed up to fit various situations and themes. Here's a few of several rough character design thumbnail ideas I played around along with the final mascot...
Last year I declared March to be "Sketchbook Month" and started an informal little blog challenge: a sketch every weekday for the entire month. Several other artists joined in and pretty soon we had a pretty good party going. With the new baby things are just too crazy for me to attempt it again this year, but I'm hoping next...
Australian designer Jenica Smith publishes designmontage.com, a website which brings together an eclectic mix of creative goodies from all corners of the internet - design, illustration, photography, animation, and the like. She's just posted a short interview with me about my illustration work and career. I encourage all my blog readers to take a poke around the site. There's some...
For several years I've enjoyed being a member of the National Cartoonists Society. Two or three times a year I travel across the Midwest to spend a couple of days hanging out with other members of my chapter. You can take this to the bank: Getting a few cartoonists together over drinks is never dull. One of our members is John...
