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....
I've just cooked up a piping hot batch of portfolio artwork for you to enjoy. You can now download updated PDFs of my Illustration, Character Design, and Toy Design portfolios over on my Downloads Page. Save 'em, print 'em, or keep them on file. As always, you can also download a free list of 100 sketchbook ideas. If you are in need of...
Here's a re-post from 2014. Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!...
My parent's celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary on March 14, which also happens to be "Pie Day". Math nerds will recognize Pi as a number famous for going on forever. It literally has no end but the first five digits are "3.1415". Hence, the date 3/14/15 is "Pi (or Pie) Day". My parents asked me to get them a "Pi Day" t-shirt for the...
