The International Consumer Electronics Show is currently underway and all sorts of new gadgets and gizmos are being unveiled. Today I stumbled upon a glowing review from MacWorld of a new iPad stylus that, as far as I know, is the first to offer true pressure sensitivity for iOS. If it lives up to the hype, the Jot Touch from...
It's not very often I get to take a little extra time to add some polish and shading to a sketch, but the Christmas/New Year's break allowed me to slow down and be a little more leisurely with my drawing. Here's a study I worked up in Photoshop using my Cintiq. It's based on this photo which I found using...
Since tomorrow is the last day of 2011, I thought I'd take a moment to review some of the many highlights and accomplishments of my illustration studio over the past year: Toy Design I worked on a variety of toy design, packaging illustration, and presentation sketches for a major toy company to help relaunch one of their well-known brands. Unfortunately the confidentiality...
A couple of years ago I was hired by the owner of a small food company to design a mascot for a new line of chocolate covered cashews. His idea was to call them "Chocolate Covered Elf Ears", since the shape reminded him of the ears on a small elf and he thought it would be a fun way to...
My last post was a little heavy-handed, so I thought I'd lighten things up a bit. Enjoy a good laugh, and have a very Merry Christmas! [youtube_sc url=CYbVpAwGGGs width=450]...
I want to take a moment to extend warm Christmas wishes to all my blog readers. I didn't have time to put together a fancy Christmas promotional card or email this year (the image above is from last year) so this blog post will have to suffice. Here's hoping your Christmas is filled with happiness and peace! Speaking of Christmas, one...
