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...
Last fall I was hired by Toys-R-Us to develop some rough concept sketches for a  race track playset they were working on. The idea was to decorate the track with interactive elements including a grandstand, pit stop, oil spill, and orange cones. These are some of the rough sketches I worked up based on the ideas they described. Ultimately the...
It's been over a year since I last refreshed my PDF Portfolios. Since I just posted a brand spankin' new logo, I thought it would be a good time to update them as well. The new portfolios come in four flavors: Character Design, Toy Design, Illustration, and FPO/Comp Art. Click the links to download or grab them off my Downloads...
