Blog

One of my regular clients is DecoPac, Inc., a local company that designs and manufactures many of the toys you find adorning the birthday cakes at your local grocery store bakery. Most of my work for them involves licensed properties (Mickey Mouse, Toy Story, etc.) but every once in a while I get to create something completely from scratch. Last year...

Carter Goodrich is an amazing illustrator and a truly brilliant character designer. He's worked on such animated films as Finding Nemo, Despicable Me, Open Season. The Prince of Egypt, and Ratatouille. Up until now he was one of the few remaining artists on the planet without a website. That is no longer the case....

Yesterday I was at the federal courthouse in St. Paul where lawyers from the NFL and the Players Union were arguing over the current breakdown of salary negotiations. I'm not a sports fan so I don't really have a dog in this fight. All I know is that whenever there's large amounts of money at stake (in this case billions...

Sketchbook Month is over, and I did it! I actually completed one new sketch every weekday for the entire month in addition to all my regular client work and other life responsibilities. It feels great, and I know I benefited from it. It may not be obvious to anyone else but I can look back over the past month and...

Sketchbook Month is almost over! Only one more day to go. Today's sketch is a study based on a screen shot I took a while back from an old b&w gangster movie. I don't remember anything about the specific movie or even the title (wish I did so I could assign the proper credit), but I liked this guy's face so...