Bio:

I am an artist with seven years of professional experience working with a wide range of clients. My focus as an artist is illustration.

I have been drawing for as long as I can remember (I can recall back in 1st and 2nd grade keeping an art journal and drawing everything from Godzilla to Born Free pictures). I graduated high school with an emphasis in art and in college I received a degree in graphic design/computer graphics. Over the past four years I have developed a professional style of sequential storytelling and rendering.

Currently I am freelancing, working on a diverse number of projects, ranging from illustration to web/print design.

Inspiration:

fine art: Ralph Steadman, Egon Schiele, Rodin, Dali

film: Hitchcock, Godard, Kurosawa, Lucas, Wes Anderson

comic books: Mike Mignola, Leinil Yu, Jack Kirby, Jim Cheung, Jae Lee, Geoff Johns, Alan Moore, Brian Bendis, J.H. Williams III, Grant Morrison

books: Vonnegut, Crichton, Tolkien, Steven King

Printed work:

2004 - Think Ink - self published

Drawings and Sketches (book)

2004 - Tales from the Inner Sanctum
        - Steve Niles Horror Anthology
        - published by Grafika Press

Sowing the Wind (6 page story) by Brian Converse
Freaky Little Monkey (3 page story) by Jason Hanley

2003 - Outlook - published by TC3 Artworks

Winter's Bitter Daggers (pen & ink illustration)

2000 - Reason and Rhyme - KHS art/literary magazine

Process:

My sequential work process begins by drawing thumbnails of script pages to establish layout and composition. During this time I collect reference material to keep characters and object designs fresh. Then I do full size sketches on eleven by seventeen inch paper to setup object proportions and composition. With a light box I take my full size sketch, using it as a guide, and render my page on the final illustration paper.