Was feeling nostalgic due to the last post with my Influence Map and started going through old photos, mostly from my 2007 trip to Japan.  I had also gotten the bad news recently that the friend's uncle that toured me around rural Japan and made a place in my life as one of the kindest people I had ever met had fallen ill suddenly and passed away.  This made me ...

At work, we've recently taken up the hobby of making cube people instead of cards to give to each other on our birthdays.  This is one of my cubee people based on my friend from work, Angela.  She likes cats and has firey red hair, so it was a no brainer from there.  If you want to make your own cubee person, they're incredibly easy, require no glue, and can ...

I recently had the pleasure of working with RentClick.ca to redesign their website.  The design was a hurried one, due in a week, but the people are really friendly and I was excited and more than happy to work on the project.  You can see the redesign in action on the current main page of their website.  I'm not aware how deep they've integrated the new design and swapped out ...

Here is a cardinal. And here is a dik dik.  Or, at least, I think it was a dik dik.  I can't remember. These are first two pages of my new sketchbook.  About 6.5 x 4.5 linen type paper.  Brushpen and watercolor.  Click to see larger, as usual. I've also added my good friend, Kyle Scott, to the links section.  Kyle has been away for the year in New York, attending SVA and ...

Here's another collaboration between s2ka (Leonardo M. Geron) and myself.  Little Red Riding Hood, of course!  I may of effed up her boob a little bit... woops.  That's karma. This collab, as well as this new art post into the robowebs in general, was long overdue.  But, like I told Leonardo, the best I can offer up is that I've been doing a lot of soul searching lately and its taken ...

Wanna be in a magazine?! We're looking for people who are passionate about storytelling, illustration and design to submit stories, short comics, pinups, and pitches!  If you'd like to develop work for Vehicle Magazine, or already have something you think is good enough, then you should send us a sample of your work or proposal!

A new art show has recently opened in Dawson Creek, BC, at the local Dawson Creek Art Gallery that you may want to check out!  Some friends and colleagues and I put together what we thought was a pretty interesting idea for an exhibition and called it "Converging Conversations."  We started with one image each (my own being the Cowboy pictured below that you may be familiar with), and from ...

Here's another concept site for Russian Machines, an [obviously] Russian machine and auto company.  This one was an experiment in style for me, but I like where it went.  I hand drew all the little music, search bar, and regional graphics just so I would have them stocked for future use.  The images of the vehicles, their logo, and that sort of jazz are all their property, of course.  Hope ...

So, after mocking up a website for a local lawyers office, I decided I needed something a little bit more up beat to whet my appetite.  One site a lot more information and SEO based, and one more decorative and fun. Tubby Dog is a local late night hot dog joint in Calgary, if you've never been.  They were also started by a fellow ACAD alumni, and they're just ...

These are some moleskine day planner and agenda designs I brought together for a pitch to lulu lemon athletica for some new products.  I am also planning on doing some men's and women's hoodie designs, as well.  I think this is especially necessary for the men, whom have very little style choice whatsoever at lulu so far.  The ladies already have houndstooth and the men haven't even tasted argyle yet ...

Recently down at Sandbox Studio, Scott K and I decided to have a small T-shirt show. We each came up with a few designs and did up some iron ons. Since then I have also posted them on Zazzle, and am sharing them with you now, too! Scott's may have been slightly more conceptual in nature, but I had fun with mine as well. Basically, I illustrated some ...

A really quick web piece for practice, just trying out some new ideas for web approaches.  After a conversation with another web creator I wondered how SEO could be pushed for minimalist websites.  I'm wondering if there is an optimal amount of information a company/individual/entity/etc should have on the main page of their website in order to be the most effective to search engines and "one glance users."  Any thoughts ...

I've been using my free time lately to continue updates on the forum as well as redesign the Monkeyslunch website. A new portfolio of work is also in the prep stages. For the new website I'm trying to incorporate SEO, as I find that very few art and design company sites, personal sites, or portfolio sites ever do so. I'd like to use it as an experiment to see ...

Another artist on DeviantArt recently asked me for promotional advice being an illustrator or designer.  The following is, from the experiences I've had, and passed on from other people I know, the best I had to offer at the time.  Hope it helps someone out there!

Howdy folks! As alluded to in various posts I have made already, my good friend Scott Kowalchuk and I have started a little gallery/studio space called the Sandbox Studio!  If you're in the Calgary area, feel free to join us Thursday, Aug 6th, 2009, at 7PM at Art Central for the Grand Opening of the space!  We couldn't of made it this far without the support of many of our friends, ...

If you live in Alberta, Canada, you probably knew that Calgary's Stampede season just went by. Lots of cowboys and tourists! To suit this theme, my latest collaboration for Vehicle Magazine included a slightly western theme to it. I teamed up with writer Cameron Jenkins to create some spot illustrations for the story he wrote, La Guitarra, for Vehicle Magazine issue number 2! So, I hope you all ...