I’m an artist, illustrator, designer and teacher. I do artwork for advertising, games, books, packaging and identity design. I have a passion for the human figure, so naturally, my work is mostly about people, characters and likenesses. I really enjoy working in most traditional media, my favorites being oil painting and a combination of watercolor and gouache, but most of my commercial work is now done digitally, using programs such as Photoshop and Painter for my bitmap work and Designer Pro+ for my vector work. This enables easy changes and quick turnarounds, as well as delivery over the internet.

Most of my full-time jobs have been in-house doing web design and branding. I am currently teaching illustration classes  University of Nevada Las Vegas. Previously, I taught life drawing, illustration and design classes at  The Art Institute of Las Vegas  and  The Art Institute of Pittsburgh from 2004 up till the start of the pandemic. This environment enabled me to stay sharp with the latest technology and software as well as help students find their own visual voices.

I graduated with an MFA in Animation/Visual Development from Academy of Art University in 2013 and my BFA in Visual Communications Illustration Emphasis from Art Center College of Design 1994.

I enjoy stick fighting, woodworking and building computers from the ground up. I like putting all the parts of the machine together myself, including the system that I am using to write this.

Feel free to ask me anything.

Thanks for visiting.