More Trouble and Dangerous » Sep 19, 2012 5:40 PM » Illustration
It's been a little bit since I've posted here, I'll try and get some more design things up soon, but what's been taking up most of my creative energy over the last year+ has been the webcomic. Here's a few of the cover spreads

Issue 1 Cover:

Issue 2 Cover:

Issue 3 Cover:

Issues 1 & 2 have been printed as actual physical comics, issue 3 is getting pretty close with 16 pages complete. The Chapter 3 cover still needs some final polish, but it's coming together.

As always you can see all this for free at TroubleAndDangerous.com.

Trouble and Dangers #2 Cover » Nov 9, 2011 3:43 PM » Illustration
Just a quick post to show off the cover for Chapter/Issue 2 of the webcomic:

Batgirl » Sep 30, 2011 3:58 PM » Illustration

Here's a vector illustration I did of Batgirl just for fun. I'll probably try and do some more of these and maybe adjust the style a little. Overall I'm really pleased with how this turned out.

Trouble Promo Art » Sep 14, 2011 10:05 PM » Illustration

Not to much to say on this one, it's maybe a cover for chapter 1, maybe something else. This was all done in Illustrator except for the painterly overlay. Which was surprsingly easy.

Identity: INVS » Jun 16, 2011 1:02 PM » Books

Just a quick post to show this logo idea for the Indiana Virtual School.

The Trouble and Dangerous Webcomic » Apr 28, 2011 4:44 PM » Illustration
After quite some time I'm actually going to try and get my Webcomic project going. My friends at R Squared Studios are hosting and helping me promote it. The comic itself will be a weekly release (at first anyway) starting May 4th.

The Trouble and Dangerous

Chapter 1: The Soft Warm Glow of Villainy can be found at R Squared Comics.

The comic itself was made completely in Adobe Illustrator and is almost 100% vector art. The title page here features one of my most favoritest fonts ever Base by Emigre, specifically Base 12 (Sans & Serif). You can find some more art from the comic in various places around the site including older blog entries.

Identity: Sodrel Group » Apr 28, 2011 3:58 PM » Design
Here's a couple logo ideas I worked up for Sodrel Group. I'll expand on this a little bit more later.

Concept: Runner Visualization » Apr 12, 2011 4:27 PM » Design

This is some concept art for a project I'm working on for the End Result Company. It basically needs to translate a runners stats into some sort of visual data.

This would consist of a background element and a foreground element that can move independently of each other. HTML text would fill in the specific values for that persons placement and the total number of participants in the race/division/anything.

Here's another little tid-bit featuring the female art and some dudes running at various speeds. The original idea was to have a bunch of other figures running in the background but so far it hasn't turned out very well.

Identity: What a Hotel Part 3 » Mar 16, 2011 12:21 PM » Design
Here is very likely the last round of logo designs for What a Hotel. These are probably my favorite overall, specifically number 2.

I'd been thinking about a way to do the a mark using the WH in some sort of structural way. Ultimately I came across the Modual from Emigre that had the right sorts of letter forms to make it all come together.

I played around a little bit with the idea of using shades of color to separate the various parts of the logo, but I think it works just fine as one color.

Identity: What a Hotel Continued » Mar 14, 2011 11:44 AM » Design

Here's the third header/logo design idea for the What a Hotel! website redesign. This one seems to be the favorite so far. There will be one more.

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Design Blog:

It's generally considered bad practice or risky to include too many things in your official portfolio that ended up going unused by a client or were just created for fun. This section, in addition to my occasional random musings, is a record of such things. It might also include preliminary concept art or ideas that could eventually become a real portfolio piece.