Back in 2011 I was hired by illustrator/designer Sherwin Schwartzrock to assist him with a back-of-the-program ad for Target Field (if you're as clueless about sports as I am, that's the Minnesota Twins baseball stadium). We were under a time crunch so he provided me with a rough sketch, I quickly inked it, and then he laid in the color and...
(Click to enlarge.) The Minneapolis StarTribune recently approached me about doing a series of weekly infographics which they would write and I would illustrate. The plan was to feature them in the newspaper and on their website, and to have them sponsored by a large Minnesota company. They hired me to do this sample infographic about wood ticks to help sell the...
KeWe is a new social media platform that recently launched. The people behind KeWe hired me to create some illustrations for use in a marketing presentation to promote their app. According to their latest press release, Kewe "combines all of the popular features of top apps like Facebook, Instagram and What’s App into one, while adding new elements that expand the...
I was noodling around with a drawing prompt from the Pose Drawing Sparkbook that reads, "Skiing for the first time." I liked how the initial doodle turned out, so I decided to tweak it, clean it up, and add color. In hindsight I maybe should have chosen different colors for the gloves and hat to make them pop more. I also...
A few years ago Goldfish Swim Schools hired me to create a mascot named Bubbles (see a few of the concept sketches here). They liked him so much that they've hired me to illustrate Bubbles on stickers and tattoos, window clings, and coloring pages. They even made him into a plush doll. Recently the client gave permission for me to post some...
The League of Cartoonists group on Facebook posts a new drawing prompt every other day. A recent one was "Learned Elephant". I liked how my initial sketch turned out so I decided to polish it up and experiment a bit with some color and texture effects in Photoshop....
