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...
Last year I did some work on the new VeggieTales DVD that's just now hitting the shelves, called "The Little House That Stood" (Amazon link). My comp copy came in the mail today. It features two stories: The first combines the Three Little Pig with the biblical parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders. The second story is a goofy...
Last fall I was hired by one of my regular clients, CPC Intersect, to create some FPO comp art to promote a new line of potato chips from Green Giant (which is owned by General Mills). CPC Intersect specializes in "event marketing". They excel at creating fun, creative events designed to help raise awareness of new products and services. They...
Lately I just can't seem to get out of the courtroom. No, I'm not in any legal trouble. But around the same time I was working as a courtroom sketch artist for the Amy Senser hit-and-run trial, one of my regular clients hired me to do some animation that was, coincidentally, set in a courtroom. I can't reveal much about that...
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...
Play Illustration, a portfolio website for artists in the toy and game industries, recently held their 2011 International Art Competition which I entered. I'm pleased to announce that they've given me a Silver Award (second place) in the category of Concept Art for Toy or Children's Product. I found out on my birthday, which makes it extra-nice news. It's definitely more...
