Ramping down on LEGO work now to focus more on games - board games, tabletop games, phone apps, and video games (everybody check out SkateBIRD!). It's pretty exhilerating to get to run through such a huge variety of projects - art directing (Figma, Linear), coding (Unity), 3D work (Blender), layout (InDesign), manuscript editing (Word) - but illustration is still my bread and butter.
ReMyth: Cephalos versus Simurgh
Toy and IP concept pitch for LEGO® World Builder
Tales of Arcana Player Race Portraits
Tales of Arcana's player character options are pretty wild
BrikWars unit cards
Assembling all the supporting material for this book project has been an adventure in graphic design.
Disney Gargoyles: Awakening 2021
Ravensburger contacted me in 2021 about a handful of card illustrations for the Disney Gargoyles: Awakening board game. I may have done a poor job of hiding my fandom for the property; they kept asking me back for more pieces, and I ended up doing all the scenario illustrations, all the villain standees, and a whole bunch of villain cards.
Focused Strike (Card)
The heroes flee before the might of the Steel Clan.
Temptation and Magic (Scenario)
Demona gains the power of the Grimorum Arcanorum.
Reawakening (Scenario)
Xanatos and Demona team up to mishmash the corpses of the heroes' friends with random robot parts into a Frankenstein abomination. Dark stuff for a kids' show.
Battle With The Steel Clan (Scenario)
Xanatos creates a robot gargoyle clan of his own.
Checkmate (Card)
On the show, Xanatos plays chess on a chessboard that's wildly inconsistent from shot to shot. This version makes a little more sense.
Deception (Card)
Demona pretends she had nothing to do with murdering their entire extended family.
Information Warfare (Scenario)
Xanatos tricks the heroes into doing his dirty work.
Laser Barrage (Card)
Like a real gargoyle, but with added lasers.
Trickery (Card)
Next time you'll think more carefully before you trust Demona.
Sine Dubio Instantatum (Card)
Capturing the text on these pages was an adventure. It's very close to what appears in the show, with a few corrections to the Latin incantation.
Demona and Xanatos Standees
In the board game, the heroes get plastic miniatures, but the villains get full-color standees. The characters' front and back silhouettes have to match.
LEGO Playthemes Packaging and Promotion 2012-2020
After LEGO Universe wound down in 2011, I moved out to LEGO's U.S. headquarters to serve as the art director of illustration at LEGO's in-house Consumer Marketing Agency. Six years of trading cards, posters, packaging, comic books, and web graphics and animation followed, both heading remote illustration teams and working solo according to the needs of the ever-changing project queue.
Following LEGO's "Simplify to Grow" major reorganization in 2017, I became a freelancer again, still doing the exact same work for LEGO but now free to take jobs from everybody else as well.
LEGO Jurassic World
Packaging illustration and comics
LEGO Universe Concept and Marketing Art 2009-2011
The LEGO Universe team contacted me in 2006 about their upcoming MMO, but it was a couple of years before we finished up work on Tech Deck Live and I was free to come out and join them. I arrived to discover that I'd already been there in spirit for years - BrikWars' art and game system had been used as inspiration for the game from early on in development.
Story Illustrations
Concept and newsfeed illustrations to communicate the LEGO Universe story
Key Visuals
Key visuals establishing the style and mood of major plot and development milestones
Club Alpha
A special game zone for memebers of LEGO Club
Faction Banners
Banner art introducing the game's four player factions
Concept Art
Concepts and pitches for game elements, gameplay, and scene layout
Kingdoms
Concept illustrations from the never-released Kingdoms update
Avant Gardens Banner
The first in a planned series of in-game location banners
Fantasy and Genre Illustrations 2006-2008
LEGO has obviously been huge in my life, but hackneyed fantasy tropes are my first love.
Battleground: Crossbows and Catapults
Package illustrations for the Battleground line of miniatures battle games
Büttrøck the Death Metal Lawn Gnome
Showing gnome mercy
Beholder Beach
Watch out for tan lines
BrikWars
Illustrations 2001 - Present
The BrikWars tabletop wargame has haunted my sketchbooks for decades. Long before I switched to art as a career, the earliest BrikWars illustrations were colored pencil sketches in the margins of my college linear algebra and differential geometry notes, which explains a lot about the rulebooks that followed.
BrikWars!
Savage deconstruction in a world of plastic bricks
The Great BrikThulhu
Harbinger of Ragnablok
The Nefarious Nega-Bloktrix Seductive invader from a janky knockoff dimension
The Dread Pirate Two-By-Two
Prepare to be boarded
The Heroes of Zulu Dawn
Manly Santa, Warhead, and Zombie Abraham Lincoln
Esprit de Core
The Spirit of the Rules
The Four Rums An infinite bar on an infinite hill
BrikWars Spot Illustrations 2001 - Present
The Deadly Spaceman Hero of the BrikVerse (coming soon!)
The Doughnut Minifigs are incapable of sharing (coming soon!)
Yellow Butts An ineffective but satisfying weapon (coming soon!)
Hospital 555 Birthplace of the Deadly Spaceman (coming soon!)
The Triple Ossum Comoedy, Tragoedy, and Stupidoety (coming soon!)
The Human Strange dice-hurling cheese-powdered sausage bundles (coming soon!)
The Colour Guard Defending space maroon at a cost of one Unit Inch (coming soon!)
Diemons The d4pion, d6creant, d8vians, and d12vard (coming soon!)
Critical Success This minifig is having an adventure (coming soon!)
The Fedorables Two pills, alike in redness (coming soon!)
The Duck A fowl mascot for the BrikWars community (coming soon!)
RedRover's Imperial Magikstrate A new frontier of duck-sponsored illustration (coming soon!)
The Kosmology A plastic khaos animated by dice (coming soon!)
Stories of Olden Times 2002-2008
Projects and stories from early in my career, preserved for nostalgic fans and historical curiosity.
