Update

Greetings, faithful blog reader. Sorry for the lack of posts lately, I’m in a bit of a time crunch. I’ve taken on a large project that I’m super excited about. I can’t say too much, but thanks to a referral by the guys at FunnyPages Productions I’ve been hired as a character designer for a […]

Review: Spider-Man 3

It’s 3am and I just got home from the midnight premiere of Spider-Man 3 at my local Imax theater. All I can say is “Wow!” These guys sure know how to make a good movie. In fact, this may be the best Spider-Man film yet. First, they’ve topped themselves in the special effects department. The […]

Sketchbook Update: The Merchant of Venice

(Click for a larger image.) Last night I took my wife to see Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” performed onstage at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. That makes me sound a lot classier than I am. My wife is the Shakespeare fan, I honestly couldn’t tell you half of what was going on in the […]

Photo Reference

Many professional artists use photo reference when drawing, which can be especially helpful when deadlines are tight. In the days before the internet artists would collect a “morgue”, or “swipe file”, a collection of photos cut from magazines and books and then organized under headings (i.e. “children”, “ducks”, “trains”, etc.). When I was in art […]

Skinny Rabbit Animation

I’ve been dabbling in Flash animation again. This time its a brief internet promo for a forthcoming book by best-selling author John Trent titled “The Skinny Rabbit” (to be published by Thomas Nelson). A couple of months ago I did some character designs and artwork for the book. Then they came to me with the […]

Bullhead Days

I’ve had some pretty fun projects lately. I spent my my teenage years in the small town of Waterville, MN, the Bullhead Capital of the World. Every summer they celebrate with Bullhead Days, a town festival complete with a parade, carnival rides, a fried bullheads stand on the corner, and a Miss Bullhead competition (well, […]