From self promotional pieces to editorial illustrations, humor plays a large role in much of my work.
For details on I Luv NY poster and other illustrations, check out my GALLERY section in my fine art section
Wayne Dyer wrote a series of readers for bilingual kids in Spanish and English. The first, “The Itty bitty Bear” introduced a cute green bear cub who struggled to learn how to roar.
The illustrations were done using various watercolor brushes and filters in Adobe Photoshop.
You can buy Itty Bitty Bear from Amazon.
I wrote this hide and seek story as an exercise in highly detailed digital artwork. It features Charlie, a kid who has trouble keeping both feet on the ground as he is whisked away by his “Wild Imagination” into a series of exotic landscapes, where the reader has to find him and several other characters and objects in an interactive journey of hide-and-seek.
For more details, see my GALLERY section, under Fantasy Art.
Daydream Charlie begins with Charlie’s Grandmother warning him to “keep your feet on the ground, or that wild imagination of yours will run away with you”.
As the adventure proceeds, the reader is invited to find Charlie when he is hiding, and to locate in each picture (both running and hiding images), a gecko, an insect, a musical instrument, a game, Charlie’s grandmother (Nana) dressed as a witch, and Nana’s cat.
“Run, run, run”, called the Toucan. So Charlie ran.
Daydream Charlie discovers that by keeping both feet firmly on the ground he can stop his wild imagination from running away with him.
He also realizes there just may be more to Nana than he thought!
A contest is proposed to reward the first ten readers who can correctly identify every hidden character or object in the book with a trip for four to the author’s home country of New Zealand, a land where imaginations have run wild for countless years, and in which you can find almost every environment in the world crammed into two islands the size of the UK, where sheep outnumber people 20 to 1 and the gorgeous environments remain pristine, natural and largely unpolluted.
I created this animated mascot, “Bluey” to represent dissatisfied UN staff, with an olive tree “Olivia” representing management. Each video, which was accompanied by cartoons and comic strips, spoke to a theme of upcoming changes to make systems more user friendly for staff.
I animated using Animate Pro and Fountains of Wayne Keyboardist Steve Gold produced the sound and music.
The campaign was called “Change is Here” and short films and conics were sent out monthly to 50,000 UN staff worldwide.
Staff response to the campaign, and especially the character of Bluey, was overwhelmingly positive.
I am illustrating a set of cartoons for ridiculous, but still current laws, state by state soon to be published serially in my upcoming “Dumb Laws” Blog.
I have illustrated several editorial caricatures of celebrities and politicians.
I designed an animated cartoon mascot character and created several hand animated short films for the UN as part of an internal communications campaign, sent out to 50,000 UN staff worldwide.
I also created a comic strip for an accounting services online publication.
I illustrated tens of storyboards, while working at Studio Designs, fo agencies such as Y&R, JWT, Amarati & Puris and McCann’s to successfully pitch accounts including M&M’s, Dr Pepper, Ray Bann’s, Delta Airlines and Bell Atlantic.
Fantasy art has ever been high on my list of creative interests, and over the decades I have produced pieces for commission, kids’ books and self promotion. See more in my GALLERY under fantasy art.
