Man has it been busy up in here. I was lucky enough to get really sick and miss a couple of days of work. Just me and my guilt, a crayon and the sketchbook. I recently took up an illustration gig for a children's story. I was having trouble getting a start on it, but ...

I just received my Wacom intuous 5 touch today and am testing it out. So far I'm madly in love with it and may never go home.

My kids and I spent part of last week getting our Renton Rocks Summer program off the ground. Things tend to slow down for us rock painters in the winter, but when the sun finally turns up we are once again out and about planting our silly rocks.

I've been going back and forth lately with iStock on a series of images, doing a lot of digital work. I finally got a few images accepted, after jumping through a few technical hoops. It's time for something different. This week, I decided to get a bit old skool and exercise some basic drawing muscles ...

Still working on my vehicle series for my iStock portfolio. The boats already got accepted.  

It's been a busy week, but I managed to fill a few pages with more car drawings for iStock. I'll get these finished up and uploaded later this week.

This is by no means a comprehensive product/app review, but i just got a Kindle Fire and quickly loaded it with Autodesk's SketchBook Mobile. Above is one of the first drawings that I did on the device in a style I use for my iStock illustrations. I wanted to see how it stacks up to ...

I have a folder at work of great starts to projects that never really take off. This is one of them. I'm always trying to infuse more design into the literature that we put out. A lot of the work of a labor union is very fast paced and the lit we produce is full ...