Pirate

Valentine’s Man

This is an illustration of the Valentine’s Man; he began as a doodle in the ol’ sketchbook, and grew up to become the beautiful hunk of man you see before you now.

To see a step-by-step, click the link below

silly comic

“Guitar Friendly” logo

Recently I was asked to draw a kind of mascot/logo for guitarfriendly.net, a blog site for people who play the guitar, want to learn how to play the guitar, want advice on buying a guitar, and such things.  Here’s what I came up with:

Christmas Break Doodles

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Christmas Present Pictures

I always have a hard time decided what to get people for Christmas.  Sometimes, my best bet is the make them a picture.  These are the ones I did this year.

for Dad

for my brother Ryan

for my little sister Kristi

for my older sister Amy and her husband Matt and Juno, their big head bulldog.

church message series piece

The new series at is going to be called “Life in the Balance.”  It is going to focus on the call to believers to forfeit their need (rather, their desire, or perhaps felt-need) to be in control, to be in security, and a generally easy life.  We say we want God to use us, and that we trust Him to be in control in that, but as soon as the Spirit asks us to release our death grip on the balance beam, and actually walk across it in radical, prodigal faith, we let out a hearty “Hell no!” and hold on for dear life, preferring the illusion that we are somehow in control.  This is the drawing I did for the series:

pizza parlor sketches

my first attempt ever at a traditional caricature

Joker, color revisited