Day at Ottumwa College!

Sample of College Students from Ottumwa! A mix of Electro Optics, Agricultural, and Culinary Students!  Actual Photos shown below.  Massive 8 hours of drawing, I would have taken more pictures with my iPhone, but it died unfortunately.  Need to bring back up batteries next time!

Boston Trade Show

Back in July I did a few caricatures for a tradeshow in Boston, Massachusetts. These are for an internet company, Logic Boxes.

More from Waterloo Casino

Heading to Florida, the Great Retirement State.

Retiring or other life transitions are great reasons to order a gift caricature for your friends or loved ones.  Order one today!

Baseball, Handball, Golfing, etc. etc

Sometimes you get a request and they want a baseball, handball, golfing, and everything else thrown in type of guy.

Living It Up in a Chinese Restaurant

Skunk Works

Skunk works in Aerospace parlance refers to a special team organized in 1943.  The U.S. Army met with Lockheed Aircraft Corporation to express its dire need for a jet fighter to counter a rapidly growing German jet threat.

One month later, a young engineer by the name of Clarence "Kelly" L. Johnson and his team of young engineers hand delivered the XP-80 Shooting Star jet fighter proposal to the ATSC. Quickly the go-ahead was given for Lockheed to start development on the United States' first jet fighter effort. It was June of 1943 and this project marked the birth of what would become the Skunk Works® with Kelly Johnson at its helm.

The formal contract for the XP-80 did not arrive at Lockheed until October 16, 1943; four months after work had already begun. This would prove to be a common practice within the Skunk Works. Many times a customer would come to the Skunk Works with a request, and on a handshake the project would begin, no contracts in place, no official submittal process.

Kelly Johnson and his team designed and built the XP-80 in only 143 days, seven less than was required.

What allowed Kelly to operate the Skunk Works so effectively and efficiently was his unconventional organizational approach. He broke the rules, challenging the current bureaucratic system that stifled innovation and hindered progress. (from Lockheed Martin's website)  This commission was from a client who wanted their own skunk works!

Elementary Teacher

My 5th grade teacher was Mrs. Jobes.  Do you remember your 5th grade teacher?

Happy Birthday Ringo!

Ringo Starr is 72 and still going strong!

Happy July 4th

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Lastest Gift Caricature!

More drawings from last night at the Casino

Isle of Capri Casino in Waterloo, IA

Rehab Monday Cartoon and Caricature

My Rehab Monday Caricature and Cartoon is now available on T-Shirts and a poster!

Its' Blog Day

I like to blog every Saturday with whatever I have drawn or been commissioned with.  Today is one of my most recent commissions.  A father's day gift for Kathleen's husband.  She said "Thank you so much!  I love it :)  Passing your information along to my sister in law who may get one for her husband, too!  Thanks again.  Great work!"

Three Soccer Coaches

My latest commission is three high school soccer coaches who are being remembered before they move on to bigger and better things.

Character Design Course

I recently took Stephen Silver's course on character design and here are some sketches from the silhouettes lesson.  I never was able to complete everything, the course went by so fast!!