Recently I was hired by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune to help them pitch an idea for an interactive ad that included a simple animated Renaissance game. Here's the concept art I worked up. The game needed to fit two different aspect ratios, so which is why there is so much empty space along the top and bottom: ...
One of my clients is Living Waters, a Christian ministry headed by Ray Comfort. Among other things they produce a line of eye-catching Gospel tracts. I think overall they do a good job of trying to share important truths with creativity and humor. Recently they hired me to help refresh one of their oldest tracts, "The Atheist Test". It had been a small...
I was recently hired by the Minneapolis Star Tribune to do some advertising artwork for a local pest control company. I'm withholding the company's name at the client's request until things are finalized, but they've given me permission to post a bit of the art on my blog. Here's one of a few pieces of art I did for them....
Like many Americans I'm overweight. I've been dieting and have lost ten pounds so far but still have a long way to go. It's funny how dieting has led me to think about food and food issues even more than normal. We've become a nation of fatties which is both encouraging ("At least I'm not alone in this struggle") and...
I enjoyed illustrating a story for the November 2015 issue of Highlights magazine called “Messy Messages. It was a fun story to illustrate and I had a lot of fun creating the characters....
The October 2015 issue of Highlights Magazine just showed up in my mailbox with one of my illustrations inside. The idea was to use a bunch of words with an "oo" sound in the middle. Below is my preliminary sketch and the final art. After I turned in the sketch they asked me to change the pig from a sneezing "Achoo!" to shouting "Yahoo!" so I redrew...
