Greater Chicago Area
I have over 30 years of commercial illustration and design experience in many mediums, both traditional and electronic. I am an expert in watercolor, acrylics, pastels, pen and ink, graphite, airbrush, Photoshop, and Illustrator. I have won many POPAI awards and a Mobius Award for my packaging & display illustrations in the food and liquor industries. I have 3 Calliope Awards for game illustrations. I have illustrated for a multitude of products, including Jim Beam, Malibu Rum, Stolichnaya Vodka, M&M/Mars, Quaker, McDonald’s, Burger King, Kellogg’s, Kraft Foods, Beatrice, Nestle’s, Con-Agra Foods, Disney/MGM, Paramount Pictures, American Airlines, Pegasus Games, PopCap Games, Eagle Games, and FunAgain Games, to name a few. I freelance for ad and marketing agencies, both off-site and in-house. I have freelanced for Leo Burnett, J. Walter Thompson, Foote, Cone, & Belding, Lipson, Alport, & Glass, Marketing Support, Wencel/Hess, Brigandi & Associates, and Legacy Marketing, and many others in the over 25 years that I have been doing commercial illustration and design. I specialize in illustrative, novelty, and historic cartography, which is very helpful in creating vast and detailed play fields for historic games. I've worked on almost every different game format there is. From electronic games and light card based games to very involved hard-core turn based games and RPG's. I've done them all. I got my start as a video game artist at Bally/Midway in the early days. It was at Bally/Midway that I made the art on Classic games like TRON, Tapper, PacMan Plus, Super PacMan, Professor PacMan, WACKO, Spy Hunter, Satan's Hollow, a myriad of other titles, and of course, the world wide phenomenon called Mortal Kombat. I command an extensive knowledge of history and natural science. Much of my nature art was commissioned for the Department of Natural Resources, the U.S Forest Service, the Morton Arboretum, and the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, Illinois. Specialties: illustration, event rendering and design, ad and packaging layouts, comps, design and execute large fabrications, cartooning, game design, game art, product rendering
These are all freelance jobs
Full Design and Illustration Studio working in a myriad of applications. Event rendering and design, packaging design, game development, design, & illustration, product illustration, fabrication design, sculpting, and painting, haunted attraction design, AND excelling at all of them!
Event design and event rendering for Malibu Rum, Burger King, L'Oreal, Sears, Johnsonville Brats, Coca-Cola, Stoli Vodka, The Glenlivet Scotch, and many other brands
Create original packaging, marketing, and POP displays for the retail and wholesale gift industry.
Concept artwork for Peggle and packaging spot illustrations on Bejewled