For digital artwork my prefered tools include MyPaint, Art Rage, and Photoshop. My digital techniques closely resemble my traditional methods.

This piece was a quick practice piece.

I once worked in many traditional medias, including oil, acrylic, caesine, water color, color pencil, pastel. Right now I limit things to color pencil and acrylic.

This piece was color pencil practice study.

I work in three alternative vector programs: Inkscape, Xara, and Serif Draw Plus. All of these programs have superior qualities.

The alternative vector pieces shown on this page were all done for freelance jobs.

I do 3D modeling and rendering for visual mock ups of products. For this I use the general purpose Carrara - oft referred to as the illustrators 3D program.

This model was built in Carrara Pro, It is a personal project still in progress. I have a few such projects that I open every once in a while to add more work to. I once scuplted in clay and 3D modeling sort of fills that empty space.

Illustrator is the industry standard. Even though I use other vector programs - it is oft requested that the art be created with Illustrator.

Both Illustrator pieces shown here are personal projects. One stemmed from a freelance job - the card. It struck me as a great way to depict the oft used concept of love or money.

I have used many programs in my time
- in vector: Illustrator, Xara Xtreme, Draw Plus, Inkscape, the long dead Freehand
- in digital paint: Art Rage, My Paint, Photoshop
- in 3D: Carrara, Poser for some animation work
- in web: in the past ... Dreamweaver, Flash, and basic codes HTML, PHP, JS

More on alternative vector programs:
- Xara Xxtreme is the fastest, most robust rendering vector software. It is the best choice for fast down and dirty vector art and has the most versatile standard gradients, but no gradient mesh tool as of this writing.
- Draw Plus from Serif has been called Illustrator light. It has a nifty gradient mesh tool and standard gradient tools that almost rival Xara's.
- Inkscape can be used to do almost anything that commercial packages can. It is not as robust or efficient in memory handling but the gradients and filters are excellent.

This portfolio contains a cross section of freelance work (including low budget work), personal projects, sketches and studies. All done in a gambit of digital and traditional mediums.

This seeming cross section of work somewhat reflects the fact that a few years after starting to freelance - the crash of 2008 hit. At that time any work was good work, so I used all of my skills to keep work coming in.