Oh Hey

I have a website! It would seem I’ve apparently forgotten. Well, there hasn’t been much to update with as I’ve been quite busy doing work for others, and not so much for me. As of April I’ve moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco and have taken on a 2D Artist position for Zynga’s FrontierVille. It’s a fantastic job! But I can’t show or say much more than that. And since my personal life is now going rather swimmingly, I have little time for my own art… so I’m formally putting this site on indefinite hiatus.

There’s always something on my mind, so I think I’ll be paying Twitter the time of day again; but just as I can’t share much about my job here, nor will I there. Maybe every once in a while I’ll make some new artwork though (after all, I still want to make something with Eli & Amos!), so if I do you can find out about it there, and eventually it’ll get posted here. Anyways, happy trails to you!

Friends of Cable Springs

As a kid, I loved the movie Tombstone; it was a love I’d adopted from one of my brothers. I’ve always been interested in Westerns since then, but have never really explored my affection for the setting. › Continue reading

Space Birthday Poster

My space-themed birthday poster is finally finished. It’s [fraternal?] twin was posted a little while ago and can be found here.

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Penguins Sketch

While I was digging through some old files tonight I stumbled across this sketch I did for a card while employed at American Greetings that went unused. I was never 100% keen on the final, but this preliminary sketch came out just fine.

Eli & Amos Storyboards

Here’s something new! And by “new” I really mean “different,” since it’s not a sketch or illustration and I did it a few months ago. For your viewing pleasure I present two sets of storyboards. Both sets feature the adventures (both real and imaginary) of Eli and Amos; the first is entitled “Cowlick,” and the second, “Undersea Search.”

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Hero of Time Revisited

In a strange sort of twist, while I am only just now putting up this sketch from my series of personal interpretations of The Legend of Zelda, it was actually the first; the one that got the ball rolling, really. There are still plenty of other characters and creatures I’d love to visit at some point, time permitting…

Carnival Birthday Poster

Wanting to create a kid-friendly piece focused on typography, I asked my lovely and always-inventive friend Rhiannon for an assignment. Her suggestion was to create posters for a child’s party in different themes. I thought this perfect and began immediately, and so this carnival-styled poster is the result. Hope you enjoy, and I might just have another one coming down the pipes soon enough…

Extraordinary Voyages

Here’s something new! Well, sort of. I wanted to do some new typographic work, and expanding on the “Circumnavigate” piece seemed a perfect opportunity. I’d love to use the illustrations already finished to create further adventures for the duo, woven together to create a children’s book. For now though, I hope you’ll enjoy this piece.

Stalfos Knight

I’ve always liked the Stalfos from The Legend of Zelda because they’re understandable; you could tell very easily they were animated human skeletons, no matter the pixel count. The Stalfos in Twilight Princess strayed too far from this for my liking—they look like they were monsters even before death, and their gear was entirely too fetishistic of skulls (see: Arthas).

Personally, I’d prefer to take it back to a more subtle form, as though they were the reanimated corpses of a defeated invading kingdom’s knights. They sport similar but slightly different heraldry than Hyrule to hint at a disastrous desire for power.

Hero Attire

I may have drawn Link from Legend of Zelda a while ago, but I still think about the “ideal” version from time to time. I felt like there needed to be more to it, so here’s another take.