I'm excited to announce I've recently completed some props and costume designs for an upcoming VeggieTales animation project. I can't show any artwork yet but I have their permission to announce them as a client. I've worked with Big Idea in the past as a character designer for the "3-2-1 Penguins!" TV series and I've done some VeggieTales work indirectly for...
I regularly get hired by ad agencies to create "comp art"—rough sketches (sometimes color, sometimes not) designed to help them pitch their ideas to their clients. My artwork has been presented to clients such as Walmart, Target, Best Buy, 3M, and Chef Boyardee. Examples are of course posted on my website. Now you can also download selected samples of my...
One of my regular clients is a toy company called DecoPac. Among other things they design many of the fancy birthday cakes you see in grocery store bakeries. They also create various toys and novelties to put on top of the cakes, often tying in with licensed characters and brands. Last year they commissioned me to develop some concepts...
Last year I did some concept development work for an animated motion picture currently being developed in Hollywood. I was brought on board to help design some animal characters. The catch was that I had to try to match the style of another artist who had already done quite a bit of their visual development. I did some sketches of an...
A few months ago I was hired by the terrific team at Minneapolis agency RPM Connect to illustrate an in-store display for Act II Popcorn, a brand owned by ConAgra Foods. RPM came to me with a fun concept (two kids bouncing around on a sea of popcorn) and a rough layout for the signage, then asked me to work...
I was digging through some old artwork and found some alien concept sketches I did way back in 2006. These were some "villain" designs from an educational project for kids that was to take place in outer space. As far as I know things never went much further than this before the project came to a stand still, for reasons...
