Iron Man
Continued experimentation with the latest Adobe Aero build and repurposing an older illustration of Iron Man. Building on yesterday's test in experimental dimensional portraiture, I thought I would move onto another existing animation and breathe some new life into it...
Adobe Aero AR
I have been experimenting with augmented reality (AR) recently, using Adobe's Aero tool. I have a long history of working in this space, having released what I believe is the first AR app for any major theme park back in 2014-ish for Disney's Animal Kingdom, so it is...
Revenge of the Fifth
To celebrate this year's Revenge of the Fifth, I sketched out one of the baddest bounty hunters who worked for the Sith, Cad Bane. It is a simple sketch created using Corel Painter, Procreate, with some touching up in Photoshop. If you would like talk about design or...
May the Fourth, 2023
For this year's May the Fourth, celebration of all things Star Wars, I chose to focus on Carrie Fisher and her role as Princess Leai Organa Skywalker. Considering my ongoing reimagining her role as the heroine of the Rebellion and Jedi Doyenne, that is not so...
For All Mankind
Portrait of Joel Kinnaman as Captain Ed Baldwin from the Apple+ Television series "For All Mankind"; a re-imagining of the space race from the very first lunar landing. If you would like talk about design or maybe to discuss your current creative development or...
Norma Jeane
Portrait of Norma Jeane Mortenson, also known as Marilyn Monroe, and an alternative movie poster for a fictitious biopic to share around my social networks; specifically the alternative movie community over at PosterSpy. If you would like talk about design or maybe to...
Captain Willard
A companion portrait of Martin Sheen as Captain Willard, to the portrait of Colonel Kurtz, for Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, "Apocalypse Now". Created using Corel Painter, Procreate, and Adobe Creative Cloud using custom brushes, patterns, and techniques that...
Col. Kurtz
A rough portrait of Colonel Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando, in Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, "Apocalypse Now". Created using Corel Painter, Procreate, and Adobe Creative Cloud using custom brushes, patterns, and techniques that replicate natural media as best I...
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....