More Trucks for iOS

Last year I was fortunate to work with the wonderful developers over at Duck Duck Moose to help create the graphics for their iOS app Trucks. This year I'm happy to announce that I was able to team up with them once again to help produce the sequel, More Trucks.

Dandelions for Turtle Magazine

Before this piece I've never drawn a character with such curly hair!

The untamable locks were in part inspired by by 2 year old daughter who's own curly hair is getting bigger and more unruly every day. She always wants me to draw her and so I decided that it was time to man up and figure out how to render crazy long curly hair in my regular style. It took a few attempts to get it right but I'm very pleased with the result. Since it was so fun and I was so pleased with the result all of my characters now have curly hair!

This piece is featured on the back cover of this month's Turtle Magazine. Thanks for the super fun assignment Turtle!

New Pieces for U.S. Kids

I've been incredibly remiss at updating my website and blog due to an incredibly heavy workload in the past several months. With the new year ringing in my one resolution is to redouble my self promotion and marketing efforts to keep moving in the right direction.

My website has been updated with a handful of new work, check it out here.

And to continue the trend, here are a couple of recent illustrations created for U.S. Kids magazines. My most recent piece for them has just been completed and will be out in March. It's one of my favourite pieces that I've done so check back for that.

White Paper Snow for the back cover of Humpty Dumpty Magazine

Time to Count Birds activity for Turtle Magazine

StoryPals

I'm a big believer that the iPad can be a great tool for education. So it was my honour to work with speech-language pathologist Eric Sailers on StoryPals, an incredibly robust story comprehension app for iPad.

It's very rewarding to know that StoryPals will be put to good use by dedicated educators helping children to learn valuable skills. Please check it out and let me know what you think

New U.S. Kids Illustrations

As always I had a great time working with U.S. Kids Magazines on this latest batch of illustrations. They're featured in the current Turtle and Jack and Jill magazines so please pick up your copies and check them out.

I especially had fun with Wee Willie Winkie which is on the back of this month's Turtle. It's always fun to do night scenes which make it easy to set a mood.

TRUCKS!

I had the great pleasure to create the visuals for the new Duck Duck Moose app Trucks. They're a really fun company and have a great team environment to work in. I'm very happy with the finished product and am very proud at the reception it's had. It's currently in the Top 10 in the iTunes AppStore and is featured on the AppStore homepage, Woot! Woot!

One of the great things about working on apps is that my daughter gets to play them. Though she's supposed to be a bit too young for this one (she's 1 1/2) she's mastered it already. She even seems to prefer the hardest game which is sorting trash. What can I say, she's a prodigy.

It really warms the cockles of my heart when we open up her folder of games on the iPad and she goes right to one I helped make.

A Naughty Wind - Humpty Dumpty Magazine

This is easily one of the most fun projects I've worked on recently. I recall a quote that I can't remember who to credit for, but to paraphrase, "Either do 1 thing or 1000 things." I think this is a really great concept. This would be an example of the 1000 things. Check out a previous piece I did for Humpty Dumpty for an example of 1 thing.

My natural instinct is always to land somewhere in the middle because 1 thing makes me feel like I'm being lazy and 1000 things is too time consuming. I'm getting better though!