Australian designer Jenica Smith publishes designmontage.com, a website which brings together an eclectic mix of creative goodies from all corners of the internet - design, illustration, photography, animation, and the like. She's just posted a short interview with me about my illustration work and career. I encourage all my blog readers to take a poke around the site. There's some...
A picture really is worth a thousand words. Tonight I saw "The Artist", a feature film getting a lot of buzz. It just won three Golden Globe including best film (musical or comedy) and some say it deserves an Oscar for Best Picture. I wouldn't quite go that far but it is a very good film. What's makes "The Artist" especially remarkable...
Since tomorrow is the last day of 2011, I thought I'd take a moment to review some of the many highlights and accomplishments of my illustration studio over the past year: Toy Design I worked on a variety of toy design, packaging illustration, and presentation sketches for a major toy company to help relaunch one of their well-known brands. Unfortunately the confidentiality...
I want to take a moment to extend warm Christmas wishes to all my blog readers. I didn't have time to put together a fancy Christmas promotional card or email this year (the image above is from last year) so this blog post will have to suffice. Here's hoping your Christmas is filled with happiness and peace! Speaking of Christmas, one...
After years of talking about it I finally hunkered down and built a shiny new website to showcase my illustration work. The "trusty rusty" site was six years old, which equals about 100 internet years. It looked old, it felt old, and it was getting a little cranky—it just wasn't playing well with the search engines. It was time to...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWrJinOgnwU] A new promo has just been posted for volume 6 of What's In The Bible?, an ongoing project from VeggieTales creator Phil Vischer. It's a terrific series that uses a combination of puppets, live action, and animation to walk through the Bible step-by-step re-telling the stories, explaining their significance, and answering tough questions. There's a good balance of humor and...
