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Angry Leprechaun

This aggravated little ginger is just a snapshot of a side project I’m doing for a good buddy of mine. I already feel like I’m spoiling a surprise by showing this much, but I wanted to see what color would do to my rough sketch of the concept. Aye, the bloke’s already threatened me with the […]

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Holy Moses

I had the opportunity this evening to spend some time with the kids at Legacy United Methodist. This month the kids have been talking all about ‘Creativity’ so my wife, Suzanne, (Kid’s Ministry Director and frequent favor asker) asked me to come and demonstrate how to make a ‘flip book’ animation for the kids using […]

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Personality Type

Do you know what personality type you are? Turns out that I’m an Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging – or ISTJ – and, apparently, so was George Washington. The Myers-Briggs test uses a series of questions to classify your persona into one of sixteen different personality types. Curious? Take the test here for free.

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Preparedness

It amazes me the number of people who choose to be unprepared. Even when given full opportunity to take the necessary steps to be ready, some still hold out for a quick fix. It’s probably not very merciful to think that these individuals have what’s coming to them, but when everyone else is working hard […]

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Meritorious Achievement

I probably shouldn’t consider it such a huge deal, but I do. Every year I have the unique privilege of teaching some eager graphic design students the rigors of vector drawing. Drawing primitive shapes (circles, rectangles, polygons) with geometric precision doesn’t present many challenges, but the crucible for most recruits lies with learning the notorious pen tool. I can lecture, demonstrate and […]

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freelance Halloween illustration Inktober

Coulrophobia

Some people have a legitimate fear of clowns. If you’re lucky you may run into this one on Halloween playing a mean-looking bass.

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Scarecrow

If you ever see a crow with a stogie, keep an eye on them. They’re really careless with matches.

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Horrifying

Halloween is just around the corner. Do you have your costume idea ready? Make sure it isn’t a crappy one.

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Exhaustion

How does that saying go again? Early to rise, early demise? Yep, I am not a night owl. Until tomorrow. Good night.

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Obstacles

At times in my life it feels there are some pretty big obstacles to overcome. I’d like to say that my instinct is to ask for help, but most of the time I’m overanalyzing an approach to just ‘get over it’ by myself. This is rarely successful. After I fall flat on my face, I […]