Illustration printed in Trailrunner August Issue!

It's still absolutely amazing to see your work printed in a magazine with your little named next to the "Illustration:" part of the article. I am so thankful that I receive opportunities to do professional work. Thanks to Jeremy C for tossing me the opportunities.

Hope you guys like it!

New Threadless Design

I'm excited about entering my new threadless design for the "Pre-loved" competition. Should be a blast.

Hey all

Haven't updated in a little while, but it feels great to do again. Threehouse just finished up a couple of projects, doing two pieces for a huge Christian conference in L.A. California. The pieces were done in two ways: cut paper animation / and motion graphics. The cut paper project came out absolutely amazing. We really liked the final product even though it felt very thrown together initially, setting up the shooting station, printing out a ton of images, tearing up random paper... etc. However in the end we are very proud to call it finish and we'll be putting on the new motion reel we have been working on.

I also put together this poster for Chris Bohatyritz' birthday at the beginning of June. I thought of this idea awhile back and never new what to use it for until his birthday came up. So I hope he likes it, even though it is kind of goofy receiving a poster of your name on it for a birthday present.

Here is also the final image of the Trailrunner piece. I am about to start another one as well. (wow do months really go by that fast ? )

Back from South Africa!

What an incredible experience. I am so blessed to visit the townships in South Africa and preach the Gospel. The people we met there were so amazing along with my South Africa team. We really came together this trip as friends and brothers and sisters in Christ. I brought a ton of drawing supplies on the trip and hardly drew at all being so busy everyday. I managed to draw some before the trip and I thought I would show whoever reads this blog what I have been doing. This photo was taken by Sean Prestidge and I am really excited to see where his photography takes him. He really has been working hard and it's great to see him grow. Looking forward to First Fridays tonight and seeing new work. Good to be back!

Surrounded by Goodness.

This week has been amazing, good grief. I absolutely love the friends I have in my life and feel so blessed to have them. Kristen finished a painting that she has been working on today. Holy cow it is gorgeous, I'm so proud of her. I also finished the illustration yesterday and the Museum animation job also might be done? Who knows. Today was really relaxing finishing a lot of odds and ends we had sitting around in the studio. Kristen and I have been challenging each other to daily drawing, and ideas. This Saturday we have a caricature gig for an after prom party. Should be a lot of fun, should brush off my caricature skills. Are they still there? Yes, yes they are.

Here's a little shot of the illustration, and a little cowboy guy I'm working on. !

New Illustration!

Hey everybody!

Kristen and I are getting psyched about South Africa. We are about 12 days away from heading out of the country. We are witnessing some amazing things happening before even heading down to Cape town. Completely glorious. Kristen and I have been busy working to finish an animation for a Museum project with Eisterhold Associates. The guys over there are super nice and a lot of fun to get to know personally. I can't show you the rest of this illustration because it's not out on the stands yet, but I'm really excited about this one, trying new things. (i hope).

I've also been stripping Kristen's bike to put a new coat of paint on it. Holy cow what an endeavor, but definitely worth it. I finally finished stripping the paint using this stuff called "aircraft paint remover" that is a paint on product. SUPER TOXIC, oh my goodness, if just a little bit hits your skin, you are running to the bathroom to clean it off. So last night I primed the first coat and tonight we'll actually give it a first coat of the color she wants.

Kristen and I have also been attending a literacy teaching program that trains us to be tutors. We've decided to volunteer for the Westport High school as tutors teaching reading to students who want to know how. It's a huge commitment but we are really excited about helping out kids in our community. Good times!

Honeymooning in Italy!

Hey all,

Kristen and I returned last night from a crazy day of traveling. We left our hotel in Rome at 9 am, got to the Leonardo da Vinci airport via taxi, flew out at 11:15, 9.5 hours later plus a 6 hour time change arrive in Philadelphia at 3 pm. 5 hour lay-over later we board our plane and fly into Kansas City arriving at 10 pm. Holy cow it felt like forever but we are safe and sound dodging the earthquakes and jet lag.

Italy was absolutely amazing, what a crazy old country. The people there are really fun wearing tight jeans, huge sunglasses, scarves and cigarettes. Oh the cigarettes. I loved Florence and the Gondola ride in Venice. What a beautiful city, very ancient and hillarious.

Here's two photos of Kristen and I. Two of them that I thought I didn't look to ugly. Enjoy.