Recent editorial illustration for Ascent Backcountry Snow Journal. The article, Alpine Mediocrity, is about an avid skier accepting that he will never become the world-famous professional athlete he once dreamed of becoming. A bathrobe and La-Z-Boy recliner seemed a nice way to communicate that idea quickly.
One of my children’s illustrations, Play Date, was featured in the SCBWI Mid-Atlantic fall edition of the Highlighter. This piece was originally done for HappyReading.org for a poem by Angie Miles called Play Date. I forget exactly how the poem went, but I do remember it mentioned that they had a ham sandwich. Rock n Roll requires plenty of good protein!
Latest work for Utah Adventure Journal article titled Quintessential Utah Moments. I have to say it’s not often I get an opportunity to draw pond scum and dead bugs, nevertheless, I enjoyed it immensely.
Editorial illustration for Ascent Backcountry Snow Journal for an article titled “The Vicious Gear Cycle.” I had a lot of fun going for a more retro look and adding the hypnotic spiral in the background.
Latest work for Utah Adventure Journal for an article called ‘Night Riders of Utahvania,” on the joys of being a Night Rider (ie: riding your mountain bike along trails at night) and imagining Utah as “Utahvania.” This was so much fun to illustrate! I guess it’s still a bit early for Haloween, but I’m not gonna pass up an opportunity to draw Dracula, ghosts, a haunted house, and all the rest.
Kid Hercules makes his dramatic return in these four, full-color illustrations for weeks 17-20 of my 52-week drawing challenge. You can check out my progress so far here: 52 Week Drawing Challenge
Here’s a fun, quick doodle I did for my ongoing 52-week drawing challenge. I liked it so much I got inspired to give it the evocative name, Moon-Boy and the Dragon Planet, even though I don’t actually have a story to go with it. Moon-Boy gets around by bouncing along in his custom-made anti-gravity spacesuit. It allows him to effortlessly cover large distances in gentle leaps and bounds, which matches his own light, buoyant character. Dragon Planet is where he meets his new buddy in the form of a giant, alien dragon.
You can check out the rest of my 52-week drawing challenge here.
Here’s a batch of continuous line illustrations I did as part of my ongoing 52-week drawing challenge. I’ve gotten pretty far behind in posting, but have at least been able to keep up with the actual weekly illustrations. I had started my challenge out with a series of cute bumblebee illustrations but felt I needed a little break from that theme in favor of something a little more experimental.
I also got around to creating a gallery for all my illustrations completed for the challenge. You can check that out here: 52 Week Drawing Challenge.
Promotional designs for the launch of a new book by author Otis Lee titled The Last Train From Djibouti. Otis will be attending many book events and needed a variety of promotional items, from flyers (shown above) to bookmarks, business cards, and several event table displays. I was glad that Otis came to me with a clear idea for everything he needed to be designed as it made it easy for me to keep a consistent look for everything.
The illustrated map of Africa was my personal favorite among the event table displays. Otis wanted something colorful that also highlighted both the train route they took as well as the various countries that they visited. My solution was to do a map featuring Africa’s temperate zones from arid to jungle while showing the visited countries in purple for nice color contrast. In addition to giving visual interest, it also helps give the viewer a better sense of what the landscape would look like for each of the places described in the book.
Editorial illustration for Utah Adventure Journal article titled Stop and Smell the Reno Hotel. A selfie addicted dad experiences Instagram-induced FOMO (the fear of missing out) at the end of his family vacation of hiking and biking in the California Redwood Forest. Meanwhile, his little boy declares that their stop in a cheap hotel in Reno is the best part of the whole vacation.
As a former kid, I can relate. I remember spending most of my time outdoors in nature, both at home and while on family vacation. Hotels, even cheap ones, were always fun. I can’t say I ever actually preferred them, but the novelty factor alone made them stand out. Who doesn’t love tiny little bars of soap?