Product and User-Experience Design Overview, part II
Image: Image transfer of the Apollo Lunar LandeerWe began this journey through the first phase, Understand, and follow up that post with the second chapter, of three, as we look at the techniques and practices used within the product & user experience discipline....
Product and User-Experience Design Overview, part I
Image: View from inside the cockpit of the Millennium FalconAs we look at the techniques and practices used within the product & user experience discipline, we can look at the macro level concepts of: Understand, Define, and Validate. These are considered by many,...
Iron Man
Testing out some new intaglio techniques with this new illustration of Marvel's Iron Man and concept poster. I have been focused on working in Corel Painter, Procreate, and Adobe Creative Cloud for much of my recent work; using custom brushes, patterns, and techniques...
Lumon
I had the privilege to work out of the legendary Bell Labs campus, now the Bell Works, in Holmdel, NJ this past week. I grew up near this facility and it was an incredibly secret campus with a strict no-trespassing policy. As kids if we even tried to cut across the...
Harley Quinn
Portrait of Margot Robbie in her iconic portrayal of the anti-hero, Harley Quinn from the DC Universe of stories. This series of illustrations were created using an array of custom brushes, textures, and techniques in Corel Painter, Procreate, and Adobe Creative Cloud...
Lady Thor
Illustrated portrait of Natalie Portman reprising her role as Jane Foster. This time in Marvel's "Thor: Love and Thunder" as Lady Thor - directed by the one and only brilliant mind of Taika Waititi. This illustration was created using a couple my favorite tools:...
Andie
Companion illustrations to the Duckie portrait featuring Molly Ringwald as Andie Walsh from the John Hughes Production, "Pretty in Pink". I have an affinity for completing sets of items and this includes to my creative endeavors. This is another alternative movie...
Beware the charm offensive
Image: Mother, the computer used on the Nostromo to guide the team in Ridley Scott's "Alien". Copyright 20th Century Studios (The Walt Disney Company)Beware the “charm offensive”! Over the course of my career I have seen lots of personal interaction between...
Duckie
Some days, you just feel like Duckie; one of core characters in any John Hughes films. Masterfully portrayed by Jon Cryer against Molly Ringwald, Annie Potts, Andrew McCarthy, and James Spader. I had been wanting to do a portrait of Duckie for some time and with some...
Design is the answer
Design should not dominate things, should not make architecture and decoration out of them. Things should be made to accompany man and serve his well-being. Alvar Aalto I have said this for years and many times before, art is a statement. Art can exist on its own....
The Last of Us
Illustrations and alternative movie posters for "The Last of Us" series based on the video game now streaming on HBO Max. I created a couple of different versions of the key illustration as well as the alternative movie poster. I think the textures of the image above...
…in the shade of trees
“A society grows great, when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.” Although this phrase is often attributed to a ancient Greek proverb, its exact source is unknown. It is a popular quote that is widely used to emphasize the importance of...
Gandalf, the Grey
Portrait of the great Ian McKellen, in his iconic role of Gandalf as originally performed in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy. As often occurs, the initial portrait may only be a step towards a larger goal. As I worked through the illustration, I also...
On The Sheet
We’re live! So very proud and happy to finally present to you: #ONTHESHEET, a movie poster project featuring over 60 international artists that created a character for themselves - the poster artist. Presented by Eileen Steinbach, based on an idea by Liza...
Tank Girl
Work-in-progress of a portrait I have been wanting to do for some time; an illustration of Lori Petty as Rebecca "Tank Girl" Buck. Now, this is one of those classic cult films from my youth starring one of the most overlooked and undervalued actors from that same...
Dagobah
Rarely, do I revisit an old composition in my work. More often than not is because time does not allow the luxury. However, it is an age-old tradition to work and rework themes over the course of a lifetime; we saw that with the old masters and repitition is a strong...
Luke
First portrait illustration of the new year, 2023. Surprise, it is a Star Wars themed portrait of Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker. A New Year's Eve tradition our family has is to rewatch the original trilogy. Over time that has grown to include starting at Rogue One and...
2022 illustrated review
A look back at the year, 2022, and a selection of the illustrations and posters that I had produced throughout the year. Since the start of the pandemic, I have been working on translating my skills with traditional media (e.g., watercolor, oils, inks, etc.) to the...