About Me

“All children draw. I just never stopped.” —Al Hirschfeld

When I was a teenager a New York illustrator moved to our sleepy Minnesota town. My art teacher set up a meeting and I was given a tour of his home studio. It was the first time I’d ever met a real commercial artist, and I saw that you could actually make a decent living drawing. I was hooked.

I started doing freelance illustration while I was still in college and I’ve been self-employed ever since. I’ve worked hard to build a reputation for being professional, reliable, and easy to work with.

I’ve worked on hundreds of client projects both as an artist and as a project manager supervising other artists. I’ve designed toys for Disney and Hasbro; created advertising comps for Walmart, Target, and Best Buy; supervised animation of Mr. Potato Head; and designed characters for the animated TV series “3-2-1 Penguins!” on NBC. I illustrated a cartoon Gospel tract with over 5 million copies printed in twenty languages. Once I even drew caricatures at a funeral director’s convention.

Through trial and error I’ve discovered that my real strength and passion lies in designing cartoony characters and products. In 2011 I received a silver award in Toy Design from the 2011 Play Illustration International Art Competition.

I’m a life-long Minnesotan. I currently live in a Minneapolis suburb with my wife and three daughters. I’m also an animation junkie and I love to learn about filmmaking. The best vacation I ever had was a trip to L.A. where I toured the Warner Brothers back lot – even though I lost my drivers license, my contact lenses, and $40 in the Pacific Ocean. (Ask me to tell you that story sometime).

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