Last year’s holiday card to my friends and family, featuring my original characters. This was my first artwork on which I used spot gloss, which is just fantastic. (It really brings out the bright colors — I love bright colors, if you haven’t noticed.)
2012. An original educational board game concept based around the theory of evolution. Each player (2 to 6 in number) starts as a single-celled organism and changes through the course of the game. The core concept involves change based on migrating from one environmental region (on the game board) to another, plus change brought about […]
2012, Illustrator, Photoshop. A tea-related branding and packaging concept. I designed three versions for different lines of tea, each with different package shapes, as well as created the Teaki-face characters. Sketches include concepts for other things involving the project’s premise: to create three packages of different shapes for a single brand. One of my requirements […]
2011, Paint Tool Sai, Photoshop. My first Threadless design submission. It’s good to get your emotions out. I learned a lot in the process of making and submitting this (a big thanks to Mallory Dyer and everyone who commented and critiqued!). These are the original two sketch versions, done years before I decided to make […]
2011, mixed media (newspaper, bristol board, marker, canvas). Piece created to raise funds for the 2011 disaster in Japan. It was included in black & white in Aftershock: Artists Respond to Disaster in Japan. The canvas is patterned with glued excerpts from The Tennessean about the tragic tsunami’s effects in Japan, including news from the […]
2010, Paint Tool Sai, Photoshop. Done for an Infectious laptop skin art contest. The first time I had fun drawing a snake. (I love snakes; just not so much drawing them.)
11″x14″ ink on bristol board. Pinup artwork auctioned to raise funds for charitable purposes following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.
2008, Photoshop. A concept poster for…a blues-themed street festival.