One of my regular clients is a toy company called DecoPac. 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 design a set of cake-top toys to tie...
[caption id="attachment_3939" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="Tray design copyright © DecoPac, Inc. Avengers copyright © Marvel. All rights reserved."][/caption] 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...
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...
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've gone through the PDF versions of all my portfolios, weeded out some old work and put in some fresh. I've also updated the "About me" page. You can download them at my website or with these links: Character Design Portfolio 2011 Toy Design Portfolio 2011 Illustration Portfolio 2011 Comp Art Portfolio 2011 Enjoy!...
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...
