Must Be Santa

I was experimenting a little with offset color techniques here. And making it look like an old film still too.

LA Times: Children's books 2009

I did this for an article called Children's books 2009: It's all good! says Jon Scieszka

Seattle Met: The Final Straw

This was for an article for Seattle Met magazine. The art director, Ben Purvis, (who I used to work with at the Greenspun Media Group) does amazing work. See his site here and blog here.

Click the image below to see a closeup of the textures:

Holiday Cards for the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery

I did 2 pro bono card designs for the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery in association with an ad agency in Minneapolis called Periscope. Click here to buy them. Here are my sketches. The mistletoe was removed by the client. I'm not sure why .

Online Target Gift Card: Snowboarding Polar Bear

I just noticed you can order my Target gift card online here. It shows it as the whole card and not die-cut.

My someecard

I have been saying this for years, when someone asks what to get me for my birthday and Christmas. Someecards.com has a "create your own" option. So I made one. Click the card to send this or create your own.

Welcome Jenn Skiiers

Jenn Ski, one of my fellow Lillastrators, asked me to do an interview for her blog.

Thanks Jenn for the opportunity!
Click here to read the interview.

Target Gift Card: Snowboarding Polar Bear

My Target Gift Card is finally in the stores. About 2 years ago, I did a fake Target Gift card for Spring. And I sent it to Target. It must have got their attention because they asked me to do some winter holiday ideas. Below are the preliminary sketches, the full version with background (before they decided to make it a die-cut), a shot of it in the stores and an alternate color version.

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