I’m not even going to say I follow John’s thoughts on these books, it hurts my head when I try, but every story is worth reading. I did the interior design, layout, and produced the print ready artwork for these two books in InDesign. Laying out long books, fast, is a sign that you’re getting deep into InDesign. I’m pleased to say that I built this second one even faster than the first. At any rate, if you have something to do that’s worth doing, put it off for a bit, and pick up these books for a read.

I did some concept drawings for an online first person shooter awhile back, nothing too crazy, just weapons drawings for the rule book. Still, they turned out really nice so here they are. PS the game never got out of development and you’ve never heard of it because it didn’t even get named. Now that’s a sad story.

One day I had to draw this castle. I’ve visited it three times in my life and still want to go back, but until then, here’s my visual memory of the castle on the hill in Toronto. The best part of Toronto, IMHO.

This painting was done for my daughter illustrating one of Aesop’s Fables wherein the character of the book takes every wordly possession, converts it to a large lump of gold, then promptly forgets that they buried it beside this massive well. I think I’d remember which well, but maybe wells were more common in Aesop’s day that you would find one on every street corner.

I’ve done a painting for each of my kids. This was for my son. We postulated what kind of world would the cheese be the last thing standing? Well a cheesey hell world of course. Acrylic on canvas.

I think this was a sketch of a waitress at a restaurant in Osbourne Village from a very long time ago. I still like this one. Pencil on paper.

Three pieces of chess done in watercolour. Originally I painted these with the intention of making them into posters for chess tournaments that I was going to in Vancouver back in 1999. I moved back to Winnipeg before they were made so they have sat around, unused, and not looked at for a very long time. See them all by selecting “more”.

Logo for a local mixed martial arts studio. Think one day I’ll get this as a tattoo.

This was done on denim, one of a series of three primates, that was featured at a local art gallery. I went through a phase years back, where I drew and inked solely on denim, with well used, light coloured, jeans being the best choice for this type of canvas drawing. When I became known as the “denim guy” I stopped drawing on denim, it was an experiment in an alternative medium that I didn’t want to be solely known for in art circles.

One of my most interesting clients, or at least, the most obscure distant one. Ede makes hawk hoods out of leather. Or eagle hoods, or falcon hoods, it really depends on the raptor you own as he’ll custom make a beautiful hood for your bird. His hoods are a “mixture” of Arab and Dutch design. And for the owner, custom fit leather gauntlets. Then send your purchase to you from Hungary where he lives. Granted it’s a tiny, niche market, but at least he has a cool logo to promote his work.