This piece I think truly shows how cats manipulate us. They do that cute little roll on the ground and you just have to pet them. This piece was done in ink and then painted in Photoshop.

What Will Be the End of Us?

This info graphic shows the many ways unfortunately mankind will come to its end. I wanted to get the old 8 bit mario style and treat our existance as video game.

Mermaid Vision

This piece is a digital painting done in photoshop. It was inspired by the story of how sailors and pirates would get lost out at sea and mistake manatees for mermaids. Personally I don't know how this could happen but I thought it would make a fun piece. I really wanted to focus on a simple and elegant design and color scheme. Also after looking at many Rockwell Paintings I wanted to accentuate the poses of my characters and really bring them to life.

Elephants Can't Jump

This piece has a very sad humor. Unfortunately elephants are one of the few land mammals that cannot jump. In illustrating this fun fact I inked it first with a quill pen and then transparently painted over it in Photoshop. Also this piece has inspired an animation short about an elephant and a bunny rabbit, I think you can see the plot coming together there.

When Life Gives You Lemons

This was a very fun piece to do. I remember I was having lunch with my friend and we got lemon water and she shoved her lemon down with her straw and said that she was drowning it. I was instantly inspired to make some mafia lemons getting rid of a lose end. I started out sketching this in a rather cartoony manor, and then eventually scanned it into Photoshop and decided to take a more realistic approach. I used tons of reference for this piece, normally I would just have a lemon in my hand, trying to really capture that texture of pulp. Also I like to hide little details, like the "help!" written from the inside of the glass, which only a few have picked up on. This way of making food come to life was really fun, and I hope to illustrate more scenes like this in the future.

Evening Storm

For this piece I did a acrylic underpainting and then did a oil painting final. I collaborated a bunch of photos taken around my farm to compose a Constable inspired landscape. Also I used a split-compliment color scheme of orange, blue green and blue violet. The trees I decided to create, which I discovered was quite difficult because of the need to make them symmetrical, and thus not naturalistic. All in all I think this painting came together pretty well.

Werewolf Date

This is a vector illustration of the transition of a man into a werewolf. I wanted it to be very simple yet still tell a story. This telling two stories, one is a man walking to his date, and the other is a man turning into a werewolf.