Now that I’m putting time into my illustrations again, I feel as if this barbarian charicature of myself will be returned to often. But for the sake of how this guy looks swinging around a giant paintbrush, he got off too clean. Not nearly enough paint (or blood) covering him.
Over the last few years, I’ve been having a small… Well, not so small, I’ve had a massive creative block. The stresses of everyday life, a lack of fulfilling efforts, self-doubt; these monoliths to defeatism built an edifice to an inability to hold a singular or cohesive idea or narrative for a piece of art. Even interest in completing a piece after first putting it to paper proved difficult. All
There comes a time in every designer’s life where they are asked by family to create something for them. It just so happens that this family, is also a band (on occasion). Here we have the latest incarnation of the family band composed of my brother and our mutual cousins. You can find them playing an hour long set on Bridgeside Productions live music show, Bridgeside Live!, here.
During the time I spent at Bridgeside Productions, I was afforded the opportunity to create some original brands for the production house. These brandings were designed to be used for print and screen, and were regularly used as show slates for each of these productions. Here are a few samples of the work I had done for their various shows. Each of them were very fun to work on, it
I’ve spent the better part of the last 10 years working as a Video Editor for MSNBC / NBC News. Working in a breaking news environment requires a quick and decisive hand when bringing live news items to air. Other times you are needed to make careful and precisely timed videos for broadcast and social media posts. Here are a couple MSNBC news packages I worked on with the renowned
Here is some of my editing work from when I used to regularly work at Bridgeside Productions.
A little bit inspired by The Beatles, a bit by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Updates to come.
Back when Conan O’Brian left for sunny California and was dumped by NBC, he was quickly swept up by TBS for their own late-night lineup. During a segment with Bruce Timm (top heavy-weight at Warner Bros. Animation and Art Director for numerous DC Comics inspired animations under the WB banner), The Flaming C was born. What came next was a shocker to me; Conan announced an art contest involving his
Eventually I will revisit this little guy. Adorable, ain’t he?
Started on the ipad and only recently dug out from the pile. A revisit will be here soon.