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
Speed Painting of My Daughter
Sometimes I just see something that is too cute and I have to draw it – my daughter was sitting on the ottoman tonight playing intently with her little people for about 30 minutes straight – she barely moved! I had to do a quick painting.
Magazine Cover Painting
Sometimes, you have an idea, and send a sketch to the editor and they tear it apart, pass it around, and change the whole thing with stuff like ‘lets add in some people, different diverse cultures cause we can’t look racist’ or ‘we love it, we just want to change a few things’ and then you end up with a …
Illustration for a friend
This is a simple illustration that I did for a friend for her 15th anniversary. She sent me some pictures from her wedding that I used to do the illustration. They wanted the quote “We’re all a little weird. And life is weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and …
Tshirt design for a softball team
This was a quickie logo design for a friend of mine. His softball team disbanded a few years back then a member of the team was killed in a car accident. The team (formerly ‘Jerk One Out’) now decided to reform and name the new team after their friend. His nickname was ‘the joker’ and he was an x marine, …
Rustic Wood Bench
Here is the wood bench that I built to match the Rustic Wood Table that I built in February. I was originally going to build the bench side by side with the table, but the main table was a great deal of work and I wanted to take a break for a bit before finishing it. This would also give …
Medical Magazine Cover Painting
This issue of BSTQ was a bit of a rush job, so we stepped outside of our usual process and moved quickly. The idea was to show the chain of service of medication from the creation of the product at the pharmaceutical corporation, to the doctor writing a prescription, to the pharmacist delivering it, to the end user who takes …
Figure Drawing – Just for fun
As an artist and a designer, I have to split my time between creative, fun stuff and projects that I am working on for a client. From time to time, it seems like the client stuff takes over and sucks all the fun out of being an artist. My first love as an illustrator has always been figure drawing – …
Bad Ass Honda Ridgeline Rendering!
Here is a rendering of the final build stage of a Honda Ridgeline pickup truck. The parts installed are: – Custom roof rack – LED lighting on roof rack – Custom bull bar – LED lighting on bull bar – 2″ lift kit – Flat black KMC wheels – Custom painted bug shield – Custom flat black grillecraft grille – …
Just For Fun Drawing
I was working late on an illustration project and I sent it off for feedback, but I wasn’t tired yet. I decided to do a little sketch of my oldest daughter in her all stars soccer goalie uniform just for fun. After a few minutes, I decided she needed her fan club, so I put Lucy and Cara – our …
Spot Illustration
This spot illustration is supposed to show the subject choosing to stop paying attention to the bad news on her laptop and start focusing on the things she likes, like lip gloss.
Woodworking Plans – Flip Up Table
I’ve been spending a lot of time in my workshop building my kitchen table over the past few weeks. One thing that I am noticing is that I need more table space for working on long pieces. Also, I have two folding tables that I use for projects and they are not nearly as sturdy as I would like for …
How To Build A Rustic Wood Table
Over the past 6 weeks, I’ve been working on a new kitchen table for my home. We routinely have large groups (10+ people) over for dinner and our current 6 1/2 foot by 40″ table wasn’t working anymore. Adding a folding table to the end of your dinner table with cold metal chairs from the garage was getting old. A …
Lego Milennium Falcon
My daughter and wife bought me the Star Wars Millennium Falcon Lego kit for Christmas. The kit (7965) has 1,254 pieces and when assembled is over 18.5″ from bow to stern. My daughter and I spent about 10 30 minute sessions building the kit that had 2, 80 page instruction booklets for assembly. It came with 6 figures and only …
Magazine Cover Painting
Here is the latest magazine cover that I just finished. The editor asked for an image of a hand putting the last piece in a puzzle that has an antibody or antibodies as the subject. The goal is to show how science is decoding the nature of antibodies and how they effect the human condition. Here is the initial sketch …
Lego Xwing Fighter – Christmas Present
My daughter bought me the LEGO Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter 9493 for Christmas this year – we built it together over the course of two evenings in a total of about 4 hours. It was fun to build with her, she is competitive so we raced when there were identical pieces that needed to be made – lots of fun! Overall …