Profile
Drawing has been my passion since I’ve been old enough to hold a pencil. My drawing career started while in elementary. I learned early on that elementary girls dig a guy who can draw “Garfield”, “The Simpsons”, and the “Looney Tunes”. I began creating my own characters in the first couple years of school, most were (and continue to be) based on friends, family and class mates. I’m still proud of my first original cartoon creations, even though they where blatant rip-offs of the “Tiny Toons” and “Animaniacs”.
In junior high I expanded my arsenal of cartoon creations to include new characters of a more “mature” nature… namely superheroes. I was getting into comic books more and more, and was hugely influenced by the likes of Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee and even Rob Liefeld. My style was slowly starting to develop.
By high school, I was exclusively drawing superheroes. In fact, in grade 11, I wrote, penciled and published my own comic. I sold it at my high school and turned a net profit of approximately seven dollars. I still think of that book as a success.
I spent a brief period post-high school at the Alberta College of Art. I learned a great deal about anatomy, perspective and composition, but unfortunately it also soured me on drawing and I barely picked up a pencil for the next five years. Over the last few years my passion has been reignited and this web site is one of the first steps at making my passion my life and career.
My hope as an artist, more than money, women and fame, is to influence younger artists the way I was influenced. In the age of computers, I want people to recognize the difference between what a human and a machine can do. The beautiful imperfections that can only be achieved through a trembling, stressed, distracted human hand. A machine can’t allow you a glimpse into the artist’s soul the same way a hand drawn piece of art work can, even if it’s a portrait of a fictional man in a red cape soaring above the clouds. …and I really want to get paid to draw Spider-Man.