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...
Recently I was hired by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune to illustrate three comic strip-style banner ads for Culligan. They supplied me with scripts for the ads, then I created the artwork. Click to enlarge: It looks like the ad is now live, with the strips rotating in a slideshow format. You can view the ad here....
2014 was another full and exciting year for my illustration studio. I'm deeply grateful to have such a fun job where I get to work on so many exciting projects with so many amazing people. Here's a few highlights from our most recent trip around the sun: Illustration I worked on several really fun projects I can't say too much about yet,...
