Objectives: Currently seeking freelance or contract work in the field of sequential art, dealing with pencilwork and storyboarding, as well as freelance or contract work in illustration and/or character design.

• Experienced with various styles of pencilwork and inking

• Familiar with various layouts of comic book pages and panels

• Self trained in storyboarding

• Very experienced with character design and design of character costuming, ranging from period-style to science fiction and fantasy

• Very knowledgable of the human figure/anatomy and life drawing

Experience

Sequential Art

• Currently maintaining a webcomic that challenges me to develop new and interesting approaches to the storytelling medium, which provides feedback and constructive criticism from readers and other artists in the sequential art field.

• Self trained in the creative process of sequential art since 1995 in terms of penciling, storyboarding, character design and creation, storytelling, script writing, inking, lettering and coloring.

Character Design

• Created a series of comissioned character designs for the Wasteland Wars roleplaying game project. Click here to view the Wasteland Wars official website.

• Created a significant body of work involving the design of characters for fantasy and science fiction settings based upon the literary ideas of colleagues and fellow artists, work ranging from 2002 to present time.

Illustration

• Concurrent with education, created a body of work dealing with traditional media and design, including the human figure, still life, and landscape drawing and painting.

Education

B.F.A., Painting and Graphic Design, anticipated Spring 2007
Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO

Programs

• Experienced with Adobe Photoshop

• Familiar with Adobe Illustrator and various other digital imaging programs, and the use of a graphic tablet

• Familiar with MS Word, skilled at typing with an average WPM of 75

Portfolio

Online galleries may be viewed at My DeviantArt site, and at My Elfwood site.

• Samples:

Urban fantasy type character design, Photoshop colors and textures, inking
Fantasy type character design, inking
Pencils, dynamic figure drawing, foreshortening, Photoshop
Photoshop, digital photo manipulation
Character design for the Wasteland Wars project, Photoshop
Figure drawing, pencil, study of light and shadow
Design, still life drawing, ink
Landscape drawing, ink
Photoshop, digital photo manipulation
Pencil, fantasy character illustration
Pencil, Photoshop. Fantasy character illustration
Pencil. Science fiction type character illustration
Ink, Photoshop. Fantasy character design
Pencil, fantasy character design
Ink, character concept with background illustration
Ink, watercolors. Fantasy monster illustration with backround