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I’ve been really busy and haven’t had time to post for a while, but here is a simple sketch I’ve been working on when I’ve gotten a free minute here and there.

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It’s always nice to work with people like Mark at POZ Magazine. They do a great job at POZ and have a lot of experience working with illustrators. Check out my illustration in the upcoming October issue.

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I’m really happy with how the final came out click here to view it in my portfolio. The colors worked out well and the suggestion that Simon, from “Who the Hell is God“, had of adding a temple like building to the others was a good one. It was fun to work with […]

I used photoshop and messed around with the colors of the illustration a bit. Here are two alternative options to what I showed you before. The blue sky is nice and is a complementary color to the orange you’re using in the blog.

I think the benefit to having the more orange sky is that text […]

In my last “Who the Hell is God” post I posted a rough concept sketch. After reading the comments from Simon and others I sketched out a new image with a smaller fish (about 40% smaller) and more room for the title. I also wanted to do something more with the landscape so I added […]

My friend Simon recently asked me if I would do an illustration for his blog “who the hell is god”. Because I’m a Christian I was a bit apprehensive at first, but when he explained to me that the blog was going to be a documented journey about his search for God, and reassured me […]

These are two color studies I recently did for Sean, the art director, at Retail Traffic Magazine. Sean was easy to work with and the concepts for both articles were a lot of fun.He and the editor wanted the figure holding the tracks so that it looked like he was trying to put them together. […]

This is a pretty amazing video I saw on Little Chimp Society. It’s long but well worth it.

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I’m about 50 percent of the way on this piece. It all started about a month ago with two doodles in my sketchbook. The dots are my favorite part of this piece. Before I had them it looked like the crowed line of figures in a large expanse. Now they are crammed into a tunnel […]

This piece spawned from looking at computer mother boards. I recently saw a great article in Craft Magazine that showed how to use mother boards to build a cabinet and I’ve begun to collect some to build my own.
I showed a version of this painting to a close friend and fellow illustrator. He […]

Color studies have become a very important part of my process. I often do three or four and then going to final do something else entirely. The most important thing isn’t that my colors are all planned out when starting a final but that I’ve played around with color and have put my […]

Over the past few years I’ve become intrigued with Japanese watercolors and prints. It started with a picture book by illustrator Anno Mitsumasa called The Tale of the Heike and has grown into a small collection of books about Japanese art. What attracts me most is the purposeful use of red and the […]