A process for something I rarely do: architectural room renditions. Streamline your workflow to achieve a precise and beautiful hand-drawn interior design using a combination of free 3D interior design software, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
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This museum diorama has a fantastic mood and my photo edits aim to pull out the wintry feeling one would get when viewing it in person. I used Lightroom exclusively to see what I could do with masks.
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A favorite day trip of ours when visiting Myrtle Beach is Brookgreen Gardens at Huntington Beach State Park. The park is a stunning 2,500 acres of the largest and most comprehensive collections of American figurative sculpture in the country.
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Puzzles from the Past is a mail order puzzle experience of archaeological intrigue. Each experience is a mystery to solve inspired by real life excavations, a collectible artifact replica, and historical materials authored by anthropology/archaeology experts — adventure on!
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Cryptids of North America has been an on-again-off-again project I pick up every year around October. The goal was to illustrate at least one legendary folklore creature from each state in the US. Without further ado, here is the finished North American collection of over 50 cryptids.
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A product shoot! Spooky season is fast approaching and so are the fall colors and festivals. This shot was for a single page magazine ad highlighting 13 choice brews readily available in the greater Charlotte area… also the spider’s name is Charlotte.
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Illustrator variables allow text URLs to behave like proper hyperlinks when saving the document as a PDF. It’s a useful trick to avoid relying on Acrobat or InDesign. Illustrator can be touchy however, so I’ve gathered a few tips to help.
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GoAFAR is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pre-collegiate students an opportunity to experience the world of archaeology through onsite excavations or by attending world-class Maya seminars. A project like this speaks directly to my inner Indiana Jones. I’ve got my whip, now watch me neigh neigh 🐴 — let’s dig in!
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Photo manipulation and color correction for an old Keystone Olympic K-32 film camera. There were a few challenges in ‘Studio B’ so-to-speak, while I work on putting together a more permanent studio.
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Photo manipulation and color correction for a beach condo at Port Canaveral, Florida. I try to get up early (and stay out late) to grab all the good pics before humanity gets in the way 😉
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Longleaf Home is a remodeling, repair, and custom carpentry shop in the Charlotte area specializing in kitchens, baths, living spaces, and bedrooms. Although the company is new, the folks at Longleaf have years of experience to give homes the love they deserve.
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I was skimming through my sketch book the other day and decided to vector all the margin doodles and notes that never really went anywhere. For your consideration, here are 16 half-baked t-shirt illustrations with unique font pairings – all using a singular 5-color palette.
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I’ve always wanted to try my hand at glitch art by using random effects to create an unpredictable series of images. This tutorial highlights my process of creating bitmap textures in Photoshop, applying those textures to vector art in Illustrator, breaking things, assembling things, and hoping for the best!
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The real heroes of planet Arakkis are the spice harvesters who keep the spice flowing. I finally had some free time to vector the new spice harvester from Denis Villeneuve’s Dune. Because the movie is AMAZING and I always have plenty of free time. Enjoy this overview of my illustration process.
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Designing a playing card deck has always been one of those bucket list items for me. Playing cards can be relatively expensive and require lots of time (and artwork) to see the project through. After releasing two decks from two different printing providers, here are some tips and helpful links to get your deck idea off the ground.
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