With more than 10 years in the design field as a professional, I have put together a large body of work in the following areas:
For years I have used a number of outlets for my creativity – this blog is a place where I can share projects that I’ve worked on in the following types of areas:
- Stuff I built
- Car modifications
- Sketches & drawings
- Photography
- My inspirations
- Everything else…
Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments about what you see on these pages – I would love to hear from you
Racing Portrait
This was painted in photoshop using a photo reference of a friend of mine on the track. The goal was to try and convey the vivid colors, the action and the speed of this moment. I didn’t bother putting the background in, i felt like it detracted from the subject.
Portrait for a friend
This is a portrait that I painted for a friend on his birthday of his two youngest kids. I printed it on a 24″ x 36″ canvas then applied a coat of workable fixative and continued to paint using watercolor. I finalized with a coat of matte medium. I was working from a low resolution camera phone photo taken in …
Subwoofer Box Plans
This is a set of plans that I drew up for a sub woofer box that I built for the trunk of my Altima in 1998-ish. Now that I do all my drawings on a Cintiq, I look back on these plans and realize that even though the medium I work in is different, the process is still the same …
Statue Drawing Step by Step
I drew this from a statue ‘The Greek Slave’ by Hiram Powers. This is an exercise that I did in a series to practice light and shadows. This one is the first in a series of two drawings of this statue. There is something liberating about drawing from sculpture. The sculptor has already thought through the process of how to simplify complex …
Does my work count as art?
Lately, I’ve been on a drawing kick. With all the graphic design & web design I do, this is my creative release and a way to keep my skills up. I post my work on various sites and forums around the web and I get lots of feedback from around the community. I spent most of my life drawing …
Girl with wet hair
This is a drawing that I did of my daughter when she was playing in the bathtub. We have a bubble bath bubble maker, so she was sitting in bubbles and large bubbles were showering down on her and she couldn’t decide which ones were more fun.
The Girls in Disney
This is a sketch that I did of my three daughters that I did while sitting on the couch with them and watching Disneys new movie Frozen. The inspiration for the sketches was taken from the general look and feel of Elsa and Anna when they were children in the first part of the movie. I thought it would be …
Anatomy Practice
After all the years that I’ve been drawing, anatomy and bone structure still remain at the top of my list of things that I would draw if I didn’t need to worry about making a living. Working the human skeleton into more basic geometric shapes and stylizing features of bones still brings me a large amount of satisfaction. Whenever I …
Mother and Child
This is the first in a series of nature drawings that I want to do that feature mother and child. This series was inspired by watching my wife playing with our daughters the other day, since then I’ve been hyper aware of the mother/daughter relationship in humans and in the natural world. There are very few things in nature that …
Spot illustration for client
This is a little spot illustration that I did for a client for use in their math jingle videos on youtube. They wanted it to be a graphic that could serve as a logo/watermark and show a little bit about their personalities while being fun. The original drawing didn’t have them singing, but just smiling. They asked that I make …
Doodle of a can – just for fun
This is a doodle that i did of a can of diet coke during a class the other day. It was done on the back of a business card with a ball point pen. I am an auditory learner, so that means i absorb information best when I am doodling and listening at the same time.
$500 Kick Ass Kayak Trailer
From time to time, I like to build things. This typically means trips to home depot and lots of sheet goods like 4’x8′ plywood sheets, 2x4x10’s and 14′ trim boards. It also means moving finished projects from place to place. I needed a trailer. I also go kayaking/camping with my daughter regularly and figured I could build a double duty …
Bed Design
This is a project that I did with a friend to replace the rickety cheap scissor frame that he and his wife were sleeping on. They have a cal king memory foam mattress which is very heavy on a wobbly frame with two people on it makes for a wobbly sleeping experience. We decided to build a new solid wood …
Drawing of my daughter…. drawing…
Our twins love to draw, just like their dad. This was a drawing I did of Lucy while she was sitting at her arts and crafts table scribbling on a piece of paper intently. I love the idea of toying around with what their though processes are at any given moment, and what she sees when she puts the …
Portrait of a friend
On April 3 2014, my friend Kirk Jarvis was killed while driving home on his motorcycle. I did this portrait for his family on the 1 year anniversary of his last day.