I’ve had a crazy month or so, and I have been neglecting my blog. Don’t hate me, it’s not all my fault. I was actually without internet service for over a week. Really put me way behind on work… Speaking of which, here’s what has been keeping me from you.

I teamed up with Jon Kruse, to form a badass Web Design firm. We are Double Dragon Studios. Basically, he handles the design aspect, and I handle the coding aspect. Works out really well.

Here is a list of sites that I have coded, partially or in full, in the past few weeks:
http://www.doubletakeclothing.com/
http://shop.republicatrading.com/
http://rocketmerch.bigcartel.com/
http://partysmartie.bigcartel.com/
http://ftnclothing.bigcartel.com/
http://www.myspace.com/ghostmakerclothing
http://www.doubledragonstudios.com

… Some of it is a little rough, I was slightly out of practice. Haha. I’m getting better as I go.

Here’s a couple of snippets of my latest illustration, which was a collaborative effort between Myself and Killer Napkins:

I’ll be posting a process tutorial for that one in a few hours. It was a bunch of fun to work on.

Additionally, here’s a few photos that I have taken recently:

You can see these and more in my Flickr Feed. Be sure to add me as a contact, so you can keep up with my new photos as I upload them!

I’m learning photography. I have had this thing for a long time where I can’t resist taking pictures of textures I find interesting. I used to run around my old jobsite snapping pictures with my cellphone constantly.

These are high resolution photographs of interesting textures I’ve found, most of them should be suitable for use in graphic design. They’ll be about 5MB each.  The entire zipped folder is about 140MB. Please download and enjoy, let me know what you think. What can I do better? What am I doing right? Diggit.

Download it here.

Here’s a few small samples of what’s in the folder. It’s mainly distressed wood textures:

Download it here.

Click the images to go to Flickr and see a bigger version.



I didn’t draw this one. It was drawn by the band. I colored it, and I made the text.

Things have been a little bit insane for me lately and I have been slacking off on the blog posting. I have good reason though, here’s some of them:

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This is the latest painting I have been working on in my spare time. I still have plenty of work to do on it, but I think it’s progressed enough to show everyone a peek:

I recorded a video tutorial to go along with the watercolor technique I posted recently. It is currently running at GoMedias blog! Check it out here:

http://www.gomediazine.com/tutorials/impressive-watercolor-splatter-effect-tutorial-freebie/