Posted in Inspiration, Printed on Jan 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
I just finished this illustration for an article in Delaware Today. The art director was fun to work with and the image was a lot of fun to and paint. I am especially happy with subtle background pattern.
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Posted in Inspiration, Miscellanies on Jan 12th, 2008 No Comments »
My new friend Mina at DejaArt recently asked me if she could post some of my work. DejaArt is a great new portal for illustration, fonts, book reviews, competitions and media buyers. There are a lot of good illustrators on the site. I highly recommend checking it out and while you’re at it check […]
Posted in Inspiration, Sketches on Dec 24th, 2007 No Comments »
2007 (desktop wall paper  available, free, on farmidable.com)My wife pointed this out to me a few weeks ago when I started working on this astronaut pattern for Farmidable. She asked me why I do an astronaut illustration every Decemeber. To be honest I didn’t realize that I did, but sure enough I look back and […]
Posted in Inspiration on Dec 19th, 2007 3 Comments »
I have been working out how I would like to portray bodies of water in my work because it seems to come up often and because I like how water creates different shapes, spaces and rhythm. I did some research and found this amazing watercolor painting by Anno Mitsumasa, one of my favorite illustrators. I’ve […]
Posted in Concept, Inspiration, Who the Hell is God on Aug 25th, 2007 6 Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Inspiration, Music on Aug 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Just about every time I get a nice illustration job I buy a new album to listen to while I work. Two of my recent favorites are from comments on my last post about work and music.I’ve listened to these albums a lot. I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of them. Click on […]
Posted in Inspiration on Jul 14th, 2007 No Comments »
The Five Colleges Center For East Asian Studies have three different collections of actual Japanese prints Available to sign out! It seems wrong to have them in my house and be to flip through them. So far we (my wife and I) have only checked out the Theater and Hokusai Prints but we’ll be checking […]