The Killjoy Trio

As well as having been in several garage bands growing up, I've been in a jazz trio for the past few years. We are the Killjoy Trio and have had the opportunity to play a lot of weddings, artsy functions and of course, ward parties around the valley. Although I'm more experienced as a guitarist (although not much of one) I got into piano and jazz music quite heavily several years ago and decided it would be fun to have a small jazz combo. Unfortunately, I play piano the same way I play guitar, untrained, by ear, and as any expert would say - the wrong way. I'm a big faker - chords in the left hand, melody in the right. I can't read music very well and I can't play hymns, but playing in a jazz trio has been a lot of fun. Because I started faking my way through some jazz tunes, I figured I could convince my lifelong friend and drummer Corey to do the same. I also successfully convinced my sister in law's husband Van to join as well. They both have done a very impressive job at learning some jazz chops on the drums and upright bass. They do a really great job at masking all of my crummy mistakes and we always have a great time playing together. We even played on a local tv show a couple of years ago, 15 Minutes - whoo hoo - here's a low-res video of one of the songs we played, The Girl from Ipanema. Here's also a pic from our latest show and some Killjoy artwork.

Sketches!

Here's some sketches for a couple of animation projects at FFFF. #1 are some character designs for a short story written by the talented Heather Dixon. #2 are some more character designs for the second season of Pig Tales.

TCB @ UBM

An article I recently illustrated for Utah Business Magazine. The idea behind it was something about PDAs overwhelming the tech-savvy business man. This was sort of a Sorcerer's Apprentice approach.

Wow, it's been a long time.

I never post anymore, I guess I've found a number of other things to occupy my time. Here's a story I illustrated for The Friend about a month ago.