Many years ago, my friend Fotno would take the local news weather person literally when they said, “Today’s weather brought to you by…”, thereby laying the blame for the rain or storm or whatever at the feet of the segment sponsor. Originally, the joke used the actual sponsor from the local station, but soon enough …
Mothman! Max painted this at a fairly young age and graciously allows me to use it here. In exchange for free T-shirts. I love how happy she made him! Get this image on almost anything at RedBubble. Bigfoot, who has become ubiquitous in my daily life, is also included, along with a “Field Investigator” Tee. …
I worked with a tactical gear manufacturer to improve the quality of their bartacks (a reinforcement stitch comprised of long-form straight stitches bound over by small zig-zags) used for their MOLLE webbing. A frame was built to hold lengths of Cordura webbing in a Juki large-field pattern sewer, but the default bartack programmed into the …
I worked with brothers who struck me as very much like the Venture Brothers – one stockier, one taller… so I broke down and spoofed the show logo, drawing caricatures of this pair in the style of the original logo. The text was hand-drawn in a “clean” version, then roughed up in Adobe Illustrator. This …
Skiffle Creek is a local, songwriter-driven band with a string-band vibe and an eclectic set list. This is a poster design with a large flexible area to give me the freedom to cram in a lot (as in the “two shows” sample below) or give a cleaner feel to more straightforward promotions. These guys did …
What a great project! After a brainstorming session with the business owner, where I brought several design samples to give us a reference for discussion, I took his conceptual ideas and generated this drawing. My first submission was a 2′ by 6′ sample generated on a pen plotter from a vector original. After choosing a …
Marco and Mariposa is the story of a tadpole who falls in love with a monarch butterfly. The two know their relationship will not be accepted, so they run away together, having life-altering encounters along the way. The theme is “Love Conquers All”. The Illustrations were created entirely using the Paper by 53 app on …
The Dance Factory of Morganton contacted me about providing backdrops for a Christmas program. To fit their needs and budget, I designed three 15′ x 20′ backgrounds, which we hand painted on seamed canvas.
The Nature Hike line has expanded to redbubble! I’m really inspired by some of the tools available in the product design options, like the ability to tile your imaging! The Luna Moth was perfect for this, giving a hounds-tooth effect at a distance. The Trillium blossom turned out to be really nice against a dark …
A local playwright (Freddy Bradburn) wrote a bit in a folk tale performance that included a decapitated head, placed on a pike at the edge of town as a warning to others, that comes to life, greets its former traveling companions, and joins them in a song. And it needed to look like the actor …