Snow Viking - created with pencil on paper and painted in Corel Painter.

Hmmm, What could I do with Red Hair and Doilies?

A little character sketch inspired by the character design in the film 'Spiderwick Chronicles'. I also played with a technic on this piece that is so well demonstrated by the great Ryan Wood and Todd Harris over at Avalanche. Check out their sweet blogs!

Color key created as a sample for one of my clients.

Yet another color key, these are a lot of fun to do!

Olde Norse Viking created with a ball point pen and water color.

I'm trying my hand at doing color keys or mood boards associated with pre-production artwork used in film production.

Madame Mermaid

I've collected quite a few cloud photos over the years and I finally decided to do something with them. This one is a little color comp done in painter for fun.

A little cloud painting done in Painter with some brushes given to me by Peter Sakievich who "borrowed" them from Don Seegmiller. I am happy with the color scheme but the brushes ended up creating some really soft edges, so I took it into photoshop and tightened it up a little.

A little sketch inspired by the latest snow fall in Salt Lake City, I hope you enjoy.

Here's a personal project I have been working on for a while. And by working on for a while I mean 5 min. once every two weeks for the past year, and three of those five are just remixing my oils again. Anyhoo, any comments for improvement on this are welcome, I am having a lot of fun using oils again but I still need a lot of practice.

A detail of the face that I've repainted for the third time. There still is a lot of work to be done especially on the likeness. These oil paints are tricky! There aint no command Z!

This ones for you Peter.
It's a concept sketch that I created from my head only after being inspired by some of the visuals found in the latest live action Peter Pan movie. This was a lot of fun to do.... dang those concept artist who have all the glory.

My version of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. It's still a work in progress and there is a lot of painting left to do, so if you have any comments on this work in progress I would love to hear it.

Another doodle from my sketchbook that I scanned in and meant to finish off more, but I just haven't had the time. So here it is anyway with some basic color blocked in.

My poster for "Lilly & the Raccoons" which is an animated property that I recently created and pitched down at the San Diego Comic Con. People loved it! And I am currently choosing between several options for distribution and production. To watch a teaser of Lilly & the Raccoons along with more information about the show visit 8fishanimation.com

Here's an Angel book cover I have been working on for a while, finally it's completed. This was done for fun so its hard to find time to work on it amongst the list of paying jobs and tight deadlines.

An Illustration just finished for a page in the Upcoming book "Amazed and Amused" that we at 8fish are working on.

Recent Sketches pulled from my sketchbook. Some of these might end up in a book project that 8fish is working on.