Summary
Specializes in establishing collaborative, lasting relationships with clients – from private commissions to small businesses or multinational firms – and fulfilling specific visual requests, while delivering quality imagery in a timely manner. While focused primarily on covers, sequential and concept art, range also spans to projects in advertising, editorial, and web. Experience also extends into managing art and design teams of several freelance contractors on larger projects.
Notable projects and clients include: Forty-six and Two's "Borrowed Time", Cartel Comics' "Scrimshaw", Morgan & Morgan, and Atlas Copco Comptec.
Skills
Software proficiency
Experience
- Founder/Principal Artist at Spike O. IllustrationRemote, United States of AmericaMay 2009 - Present
Founder, operator, and principal artist of freelance graphic art company Spike O. Illustration. Establishing fluid, lasting relationships with clients (e.g., independent contractors to multinational firms) to fulfill aesthetic needs, while delivering quality imagery in a timely manner. Specializing in comic books and concept art, range also spans to projects in advertising, editorial, and web. Experienced in managing art teams of several freelance contractors on larger projects.
- Principal Artist and Co-founder at Forty-six & TwoUnited States of AmericaSeptember 2017 - Present
Co-founder, principal artist and art director of "Borrowed Time" anthology- comic series. Adapting writer's stories into multiple art styles, while collaborating with and managing a team of artists to ensure that each story has a unique aesthetic. Responsible for series' graphic design and pre-press.
- Scrimshaw at Cartel ComicsUnited States of AmericaNovember 2016 - Present
Letterer and graphic designer of comic series "Scrimshaw." Responsible for timely turnaround of lettered pages and all pre-press responsibilities, including re-compositing pages for a variety of print runs, formats, and compilations. Illustrator of alternate covers for newest four-issue arc "Battle for Flower Palace."
- The Searcher at BL Dwyer PublicationsLos Angeles, CA, United States of AmericaNovember 2015 - April 2017
Pencil and ink artist on BL Dwyer's fantasy series "The Searcher". Beginning as color flatter for first issue, duties expanded to primary artwork for Issue 2+. Partial emulation of establishing artist's style required in foundation drawings.
- Gs and Subject D-17 at XIX Lies ProductionsWoodbridge, VA, United States of AmericaDecember 2013 - January 2016
Artist on flagship titles "Gs" and "Subject D-17". Required to alter visual style to appropriately suit each title. Responsible for all artistic duties on both titles, including lettering and pre-press.