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Carrying Home 2, 2008
Digital

This was part of an autobiographical series. Behind my Grandparents' house there's a barn. When my mom was a kid, they had animals in the barn, but ever since I can remember, it's been an antiques workshop/storage/showroom. It always smells like sawdust and wood stain.

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Lamb of Gawd, Free Press Houston, 2009
Acrylic and Digital

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Delivery 2, 2009
Acrylic and Colored Pencil on Paper

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Faker and Child, 2009
Acrylic on Panel 18x24"

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Eagle with Baby Dragons, Games for Windows Magazine, 2007
I originally made this image for an article about American companies moving jobs overseas. The client was Games for Windows magazine. Many months later, the image was licensed by 1800 Tequila for use in a cross-media ad campaign.

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Franky Gets the Treatment, Games for Windows Magazine, 2008
This was my final spread illustration for Games for Windows Magazine. They ceased publication right after I finished this, and sadly this illustration never went to press. The concept was a lot of fun though. The main idea of the feature was that many games studios are requesting feedback on internet message boards for beta-release games. The games publishers take that feedback and adjust their games accordingly for a broader release. The concept is that you end up with a game pieced together for many different people's opinions, which could be good or bad.

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Eagle vs. Dragon, Games for Windows Magazine, 2007

The graphic style in this spread was inspired by northwestern Native American artwork. The article was about race in video games, specifically the portrayal of Native Americans in PC Games.

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Squidzord vs. Ultrapants, Nickelodeon Magazine, 2009

Artwork in Print

Cover for Cthulhu Tales: The Rising, BOOM! Studios, 2006
BOOM! Studios wanted a graphic treatment for an upcoming Cthulhu themed anthology comic. I offered the idea of a pinstripe inspired piece and they went for it. I tried to give the image a more organic feel than what's typical in the precision world of pinstriping.

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Galagato, Computer Gaming World, 2006
This was the first spread that I did for CGW. The article was about the swarm of online PC games freely available on the internet. The direction was to depict some sort of swarm. I had just returned from Portland, OR where I spent a lot of time at Ground Kontrol Retro Arcade. The place is loaded with fully restored game cabinets from the 80's and I was pumped to make some vintage arcade inspired art. The art director graciously tolerated my insistence for this style and we went with it.

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Multitasker, cNet Networks, 2007
cNet's business-centric sister site bNet hired me to do a number of illustrations for their editorial features. This featured had to do with the art of "lifehacking", which are essentially systems of streamlining your thoughts to accomplish more with less stress. Here's a link to the article on their site.

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Gollum, GFW Magazine, 2007
This image was for a feature on obsessively loyal gamers. These gamers have a real problem when game publishers drastically change things in a game franchise. It brought to mind Gollum from the "Lord of the Rings", and kind of made a nice nerd cross-over point.

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Eden at Midnight, Games for Windows Magazine, 2007
One of most interesting articles during my run with GFW was a feature on "The Hidden World of Christian PC Games". Apparently, Christian bookstores often carry exclusive video games specific to the Christian Faith. The function on the article was to be impartial and just unearth this subset of games to a wider audience.

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Death of Futurism, Wired Magazine, 2003
Wired contracted me to make this illustration for an article about the collapse of futurism. The article suggests that there is a shortage of big thinkers in today's specialized science world. The article called to mind a forgotten future. I used imagery of sort-of World's Fair in ruin to convey a departure from the promised hopes of the era of an optimistic future. You can read the article online here.

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Lavabot, Games for Windows Magazine, 2008
This double-page spread in GFW was for an article about the increasing complexity of scripts in PC Games. The art director just asked me to create a scene that really begged for a narrative. For me, it was a great excuse to draw a giant robot. It was also kind of redux of my first magazine gig, which was a giant lock-headed robot with a toothy stomach (see next image).

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Stormcheaters, Games for Windows Magazine, 2007
This was a spread for an article about cheaters in massively-multiplayer games. Some people will go to great lengths to gain power in a game, even if it means taking advantages of flaws in the system, or preying on newbies. The original direction of the art was to use fantasy-based characters cheating on a test, but it evolved into something more universally familiar and was a lot more fun in the end because of it.

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Wi-Fi Office Spot 2, Business 2.0 Magazine, 2004
This is one of the illustrations that I did for a two-page spread in Business 2.0 Magazine. The article was about cutting the cords at work by using Wi-Fi instead of wired ethernet. I was thinking about hindu mysticism at the time and it kind of lended itself to the theme of enlightenment thru freeing yourself of clutter. I did some research and was excited to find that diagrams of hindu chakras resembled wi-fi network diagrams. I used that represent the wi-fi network and as a theme to tie the two illustrations together.

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Invaders Spread, Games for Windows Magazine, 2007
This illustration was about the onslaught of in-game advertising in PC games. I was still interested in exploring imagery from the roots of video games, so this piece features space invaders. It was important to the article that we include as much branding as possible in the spread. Unfortunately, the final,printed image was cropped and obscures the Funyuns bag.

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Laughing Squid Advertisement, 2005
Laughing Squid has been a long-time supporter or my art, and it was a special treat when they approached me to do their poster for their ten year anniversary party. Later, we turned the poster art into a full-page back cover advertisement for Hi-Fructose Magazine.

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Lockbot, WIRED Magazine, 2003
The art director for Wired contacted me after seeing my work on the "Bear Witness III" music video for Dan the Automator. This was my first real illustration job and it set the style for a lot of my contract work to follow. This article in particular had to do with copyright software in the music industry and the birth of DRM.

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Kaiju Kluster, 2010
Acrylic on Wood

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Machinima Bully, GFW Magazine, 2007
Games for Windows did a story on the filmmaking sub-genre, "Machinima". Machinima is the art of using video game footage as material for a film. This article focused on an elite group of Machinima filmmaker that used their skill to corner the market on this niche.

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Wi-Fi Diner, WIRED Magazine, 2003
This was for an article in Wired about the advantages of giving Wi-Fi access away for free in coffee shops and other retail businesses. The art directors were dead set on doing a modern take of Hopper's famous "Nighthawks" painting. I tried to make stay true to the original as much as possible while also adding my own flavor with color and shape.

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Self Portrait as Lord Nelson, 2007

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Cookie, 2009 Acrylic on Wood
This piece is part of an ongoing series involving a mute robotic demon character named "Cookie". With it, I want to explore graphic iconography while expressing basic desires and feelings.

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Dirty Martini and the Birth of the Space Program, 2007
This is a portrait of international burlesque icon, Dirty Martini. Also featured here is a Mercury Atlas rocket. I originally made this for a pin-ups and hotrods themed art show.

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Spiritual Machine/Gun and Doll Show gig poster, 2006
The Elbo Room is in the Mission district of San Francisco. The man with the pigeons is a local icon. His name is Swan and he cares for the pigeons of the Mission. They follow him around and he often keeps one under his beard.

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Powertool Drag Racing, 2008

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Robogames Poster Artwork, 2007
My friends that organize the Robogames asked me to create artwork for the event. I was inspired by art nouveau posters and Olympic imagery. They used the image on tickets, posters, and even a custom medal.

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Roscoe's Ascention, 2008

When I was a kid, my Grandpa rescued an abandoned baby raccoon. We named him Roscoe and he was our pet for a little while. Eventually Roscoe couldn't stay in the house any longer so we made a house for him out of an old chicken coop. One day Roscoe was hit by a car on the busy street near the house. A neighbor friend of mine helped me bury him in a field under some rocks.
Behind my grandparents' house is a statue of Mary and some cherubs. The statue used to belong to my Aunt Mary Lou and it's close to where the old chicken coop was. Anyway, this is my portrait of Roscoe.

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Like Hell, 2009

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The King of Kings, 2008

When I was a kid, sometimes I'd sneak into my grandparents' room and snoop around. Their house was full of unusual antiques, figurines, books, and other treasures. On one of my explorations I found a pack of nudie cards in my grandpa's dresser. Years later I told my mother about finding the pack of cards and it turns out that she used to sneak in there and look at them too. Now I own Grandpa's "Good Luck" card set and it always reminds me of home.

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Godzilla, 2004
I made this version of the "King of All Monsters" for a Godzilla themed art show at Super 7 store/gallery in San Francisco. I decided to take an all-Asia inspired look at the creature, taking cues from Japanese prints and Chinese sculpture.

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Rocketworld, 2004
Rocketworld Gallery in San Francisco commissioned me to make this piece for permanent display in their gallery. I'm a fan of classic Sci-Fi illustration, and I think that comes across with this image. After doing so much figurative work, it was a nice change to work on a sort of landscape.

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Semi-Ningen, 2007
This was part of a group art show called "Toy Karma", at Rotofugi in Chicago. The theme of the show was vintage Japanese toys. I decided to do a couple of portraits of my favorite designs.

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The Bricklayer's Lament, 2008
I made this for a pig themed group art show called "6 Feet Deep", at Stained Skin Tattoo in Columbus, OH. This the brick pig from The Three Pigs story. He's lamenting his dead brothers, who are tattooed on his arms. The tattoo on is neck says "BRUDER" backwards, so he can read it in the mirror and always remember them.

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Masters of the Universe Playing Card Designs, 2008
My friend Mike is a big fan of kilts. He commisions all his art friends to make original artwork on his various Utili-Kilts. Mike, his wife Miriam, and a I share an inside joke about Battlecat and a love for Masters of the Universe. So, when it came time to do a kilt painting, I knew it was going to be He-Man related. I decided to go with playing card art because Mike is also a nut for poker. It was a good excuse to flex my design muscles. If you don't use them, you lose them! Here's a shot of that kilt --->

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Cosmic Debris, 2003

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Dethbot and Mister Skittles, 2004
At some point I got it in my head that I wanted to adopt a dog. I found this really sad looking muppet-like dog named Mister Skittles at a local rescue. I took Mister Skittles home for a play-date and after a few escape attempts, I decided that it wasn't going to work out. Mister Skittles liked being on the move too much and I couldn't be responsible if my roommate let him escape to the busy streets of San Francisco. It was really rough taking him back to the rescue, so I decided to make a drawing in tribute to the little guy.

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Flags, 2007

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Ganesh, 2006
I made this image for an adhesive art show at Munky King gallery in LA. For the opening, Ganesh was printed on vinyl and applied to the corner of a wall, with half of his body on one wall, and half on the other.

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Muni Vs. Taxi, 2005

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Misc. Sketchbook Drawings

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Unmasked, Color Pencil on Paper, 2006

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Octopus Bust, Breast Defense Art Auction, 2008
The Keep-A-Breast foundation held an art auction in Las Vegas to raise money for breast cancer research. The "Breast Defense" art show consisted of custom-painted plaster casts of burlesque performers and celebrities. My cast was made from Vivienne VaVoom. More about the Breast Defense, here on their Myspace page.

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Orange Robot Custom Skateboard Deck, 2009

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Meat and Metal Custom "Thought Processor" Papercraft Figure, 2009
This is from a custom papercraft show at Super 7 Store in Japantown, San Francisco. Artist Eric "Phoneticontrol" Bowers created a paper model of his popular "Thought Processor" character and asked local artists to apply their design to it.

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Custom 30" Dunny, Kid Robot SF, 2003
When KidRobot released their Dunny figure to the world, they put on a custom show featuring artists from coast to coast. I was lucky to be involved and I had a blast hand-painting this thirty-inch beast.

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Custom Mandril Munny, 2005
Kidrobot had a Hurricane Katrina relief benefit at 111 Minna Gallery, SF. This was my take on the character.

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Predator/Prey Custom Nikes, 2004

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Tentacles, 2009

Acrylic on Canvas

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