Sketchbook
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. 
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…
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.
Sneak Peek #2
Another little preview of that certain something I’ve been working on [very] intermittently, which is suddenly coming along rather nicely…
Hero of Time sketch
Reading GameSpite’s take on Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past in their newest Quarterly got me reminiscing on the feeling I used to get from playing the game when I was a wee lad. It was colorful and adventurous, with a little grit, like everything was eroded by sand, wind, and time. That feeling made me want to explore creating my ideal interpretation of Link, with bits and pieces of his design that I liked throughout the years amalgamated into one. This definitely needs coloring to really get my idea across, but for now I thought I’d share this sketch.
Twi’lek Jedi
So I drew this a few weeks ago, I think around the time the trailer for Season Two of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” was revealed. The show itself is very well put-together, and being as big a Star Wars geek as I am, it’s exciting to see the universe being expanded upon like this. Hopefully Lucasfilm/LucasArts produces even more esoteric EU material in the same sort of accessible media.
CCRA Character Designs
I’ve been freelancing on and off for a clinical research company called CCRA, creating the characters and print advertisements for a unified marketing plan they’ve started (You might recognize the name from this site: you can find one of the ads I’ve done for them here). I’m happy now to share with you the four original character designs they had contracted me to create.
Each was designed to model a different age group/generation, with a focus on creating versatile characters who could demonstrate different ailments, depending on the ad. Special attention was paid to make sure that they would not be caricatures; they had to be soft, relatable individuals to draw in those people afflicted with the disease each ad would target.
Professional graphic artist in San Francisco, CA with a B.F.A. in Illustration from Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, FL.