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,...
One of my clients is DecoPac, Inc., a novelty toy company that makes many of the cake toppers you see in bakeries and grocery stores. Most of their products are tied to licensed merchandise, and sometimes I get the fun of helping them develop a toy idea for a popular character. The challenge is to come up with something creative...
As I've mentioned before, I'm a proud member of the National Cartoonists Society. It's a terrific organization that includes some of the top professional cartoonists and humorous illustrators in the country among its many members. The NCS has been around for decades and after all these years it seems they are finally running out of ideas for their monthly newsletter. They've...
This is a few days late, but I thought it would be a good time to pause and reflect on what an awesome and action-packed year 2013 turned out to be! Here's a few of the highlights from my studio: Illustration I received a Pewter Plate Award from Highlights! magazine. I was hired by Ultra Creative to do cereal box art for Cocoa...
A few months ago novelty cake maker DecoPac, Inc. hired me to help them develop a jumbo "signature" cake to promote the Cars franchise for Disney/Pixar. Because this would be a large, triple-layer cake there was more freedom than usual to do something really fun and appealing. I started by working up several very rough thumbnail concepts of possible ideas: [caption id="attachment_4833"...
One of my clients is DecoPac, Inc., a company that specializes in novelty birthday cakes. Most of my work for them involves licensed characters from Disney, DreamWorks, Cartoon Network, etc. but every once in a while they hire me to work up an original cake concept. In this case they wanted to create a jumbo "Happy Birthday" cake design. This would...
