For over a year now I've been designing toys for a company called DecoPac. They create many of the fancy birthday cakes you see in the grocery store bakeries, the ones with little plastic licensed characters on them. They offer a wide variety of quality cake designs for all occasions, and often develop fun themes using licensed characters to tie...
Recently I was hired by Benchmark Education to illustrate a short children's book called The Purple Cow. Not to be confused with the best seller by Seth Godin, this story is an epic saga about a cow that gives grape juice instead of milk. The client gave me a great deal of editorial freedom so I decided to stretch myself and...
Recently artist Sam Nielson ran a contest of sorts on his blog. He wanted to practice some digital coloring/painting but didn't feel like drawing anything, so he asked for submissions. Two winners would then be chosen to have their sketches colored by him. Cool! On a lark I submitted some concept sketches (above) from a "buffalo wings" project I had done...
Last year I was hired by a local agency to develop a packaging icon for a new snack food with a buffalo wings flavor. The project ultimately went in another direction so this is as far as my involvement went. I don't know if I have permission to mention the product name so I won't, but the agency has finally...
Here's a doodle I recently worked up of a witch on a broom. I liked the sktech so I decided to ink and finish it....
(Indiana Jones is copyright © Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.) I stopped doing "realistic" illustration a few years ago and focus primarily on illustrating in a very cartoony style. I enjoy it more, it's what I'm best at, and it's much faster which means I can usually earn more per hour. I still do life drawings and portrait studies in my...
