Jack and the Devil

Here's an illustration about the history of the Jack o' Lantern. At this part of the story, Jack traps the Devil in a tree by carving a cross in it. He won't scratch it out and let him down until the Devil promises not to bother him the rest of his life.
This is sort of inspired by Mike Mignola, but more so just folklore in general. I like how much research Mignola puts into his comics. For those of you you not "in the know," Mike Mignola writes the Hellboy comic series, and he's boss.

Done for my Illustration Professional Practice Class with Carrie Hartmann.

Zao Tee

This is a tee shirt design I made for one of my favorite bands, ZAO. If you know them, this is based mostly on their older music and imagery, but otherwise, I just wanted a symbol of brutality that retained something sophisticated, and gentle. So I chose the iron maiden, and I emphasized the gentle side of it with the angelic feathers in the background. I'm kind of getting into using a lot of hatching in my illustration, so this was a good opportunity to mess around with that more.
Here's a poster I made about the vibe I was going for.

Done for my Illustration Products Class with Charlene Smith.

Skateboard Concept for Creature Skateboards

This is a deck design for Creature Skateboards, who always have some gnarly graphics. I whipped up a sort of style board/ poster and then there's the final deck with the logo placed on it along with some alternate sketches.
Recognize that little sketch second from the right? Yeah I liked that one, wanted to still make something with it.
Done for my Illustration Products Class for Charlene Smith.

Health Spots

This is a series of spots I made for an article about healthy living. It was a pretty weird to try cramming all of the information and technique that usually goes in an illustration into 2" square spots. It was also kind of relaxing. They promote (1) Relaxing, (2) Tobacco Free, (3) Exercise, (4) Eating Fruits and Veggies, and (5) Getting Rest.

Done for my Illustration Professional Practice Class with Carrie Hartman.

No Temptation Has Siezed You

This illustration portrays my struggle with temptation, and how it feels like something that just surrounds and suffocates me. I am only ever victorious when I depend on God. He will provide a way to stand up under it (I Corinthians 10:13) (Rom. 7:24).
And that stippling for the shading... FIVE STRAIGHT HOURS!! It better get easier/ faster, or it may loose its allure.

Done for my Professional Practice Class with Carrie Hartmann.

Zao Poster

This was sort of inadvertently created in my Illustration and Products class. So we're working on band shirts, and we are supposed to make a "trend board" composed of images, and trends, and a color palette depicting the direction of where we want our shirts to go. I got sort of carried away, and I ended up making a poster tribute for the band ZAO. If you look at this, you can get a pretty good idea of what Zao sounds like, and what my shirt will look like. That's the vibe anyway.

Old "Hope 180" Tees

This is me modeling possibly my first "commissioned" design/illustration work. This was for my youth group when I was in high school, it's about turning your life around after surrendering your life to Christ. Get it? DID I DO A GOOD JOB?! yeah. fond memories! fun fact-I bought my first skateboard with the money I got from this design. It was like $30!