i get commissioned to do illustrations of people for special occasions a fair amount. Weddings and engagements seem to be the most popular. In doing these projects, i spend the bulk of my time working on the faces, and i usually keep the face studies separate from the overall composition sketches. Then, when faces are [...]

Since i’ve shared this on twitter/flickr in the past few days, i know it won’t be a surprise to everyone, but this is my current work-in-progress. So here we go. Quite a bit of my design business (read; day job) is creating custom illustrations for individual clients. The rest is commercial desgin work, but that’s [...]

You asked and i’m delivering. Here is another insight into my design process! The above artwork is a pastel underpainting i composed for use as the “peek-a-boo” splash of color under a cut paper project i’ve been working on. i really wanted it to be highly saturated and full of scribbly texture which will play [...]