I was drawing at the very beginning, and people became my favorite thing to draw almost immediately. I was reading comic books by the age of seven, so my figures got more muscular. And STAR WARS came out, and being a nine year old I went ape for the movie, so then I started drawing Luke Skywalker fighting stormtroopers. I don't think I've ever grown out of the fantasy human figure stage.

I drew comic strips for my high school newspaper and was a member of the National Art Honor Society (which may not exist outside of Ms. Sathoff's art classes). I tried my hand at drafting in high school but found that I can't draw a straight line to save my life. At Luther College I was a studio art major and ate up the figure drawing and sculpting classes. The art history classes were my favorite classes, but I also really enjoyed philosophy, history, and political science. It was in the late eighties at college that I started drawing on the Amiga 2000 with a primitive paint program. Man, those pixels were the size of a small pre-industrial country! But I actually managed to sell a few of my computer paintings at the senior art show.

After college and a year working at Toys R Us (I love toys!) I was in Florida and saw an ad for caricaturists. I'd never done caricatures professionally, but I did do a killer cartoon of one of my high school teachers once. So I figured what the hey, give it a shot. I was offered a job to work at Six Flags over Texas in Dallas. I worked there until I heard about the Mall of America back in Minnesota.

At the Great Mall my caricature style really loosened up and I really had fun drawing. So much so that I was there for six years. But I remembered the fun I had on the computer at college so I studied Multimedia Production at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College. While at the tech college I combined my job and my schooling and started selling my caricatures on the web in 1996.

In 1998 I came back to Texas, but this time to Austin and hooked up with the great people of VidBook.com. There I really went nuts on the web and created thousands of web pages and also got to use my art skills to create graphic elements for the websites. Javascript and Macromedia Flash have only married my art skills and my web skills closer together.

Unfortunately, in 2001 VidBook.com closed it's doors like so many .coms did about that time. I was really bummed because that was the most fun I'd ever had at a job. Ever since the demise of VidBook.com I've been concentrating on my freelance artwork and have had the opportunity to do many varied projects from Flash animations to website design, from caricatures to company logos. To see some of the recent work I've done please check out my "stuff" page.

So that's it...