Cute Cuisine

The Friend Magazine asked me to do this illustration for one of their upcoming issues. My first attempt was not quite "cute" enough, so I submitted this second attempt which seemed to pass the "cute" test.

Recent Projects

Here's a background for an upcoming Faux Paw short at Circles & Squares Animation and a poster idea for an animated movie pitch.

Security

Another illustration I recently did for Utah Business Magazine. Something about how technical security can be overwhelming to the business man.

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.