I love to draw.

From my humble beginnings of doodling intricate, underground mazes filled with treasures (and almost certain death), to discovering watercolor, pen and ink, and eventually how to marry my spontaneous pencil sketches with digital color, the drive has always been the same: to get a positive reaction from people. A laugh, a glint of recognition, a spark of the hidden joke coming to the surface. I do draw for my own enjoyment; the process, from problem-solving, to the sketching, erasing and more sketching, to the scanning, and finally the color, is what really gets the juices flowing for me. But I also look forward to the back and forth, the interaction of someone with my art, and what they have to say about it.

I have a BFA in illustration from Syracuse University, where I studied with many of the best in the business: Roger Demuth, John Thompson, Murray Tinkelman, Yvonne Buchanan, Dave DeVries, Marty Blake, and Bob Dacey. I currently live in Chicago and I have been doing freelance illustration for 6 years. Some of my clients include Sterling Publishing in NYC, Northbrook Court Mall in Northbrook, Illinois, and Keystroke Graphics, a design firm in Naperville, Illinois.

I can quickly sketch out ideas for on-the-spot visualization.
I am an expert at using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PhotoShop, Quark Xpress, and just about any piece of software you can install on a Macintosh. I have backgrounds in using most of the Macromedia software: Dreamweaver, Flash, (both web design) and Director (animation and CD-ROM creation). I also have storyboarding and some videography experience.

I enjoy animated, humorous, character-driven projects, but I have the talents and skills to illustrate just about anything.

"Cowboy in ponder"
Pen and ink and PhotoShop