EA Games I've Worked On: The Sims Social (for Facebook)

Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to be sent over to London to work with Playfish on The Sims Social for a few weeks.

EA Games I've Worked On: The Sims Medieval (PC)

I spent all of 2010 (and a little bit of 2009) working on the UI for The Sims Medieval. We put together a team of 5 in-house UI artists along with a number of outside icon artists, and eventually I had to step away from my day-to-day art making duties to serve as the UI art director for the team.

EA Games I've Worked On: The Sims 3 (PC)

For the last few months of 2008, I helped the Sims 3 team get some big chunks of UI sorted out, specifically the "build" and "buy" customization tools, as well as most of the primary game HUD.

EA Games I've Worked On: MySims Agents (Wii)

Back in 2009, I served as the lead UI artist for MySims Agents. I guess "lead UI artist" is a bit of a misnomer in this case, since I was really the only UI artist on the project. But I worked closely with the UI functional designer and the art director, and I think we came up with some great stuff!

EA Games I've Worked On: MySims Kingdom (Wii)

EA Games I've Worked On: MySims (Wii)

EA Games I've Worked On: The Sims 2 Pets (for consoles)

EA Games I've Worked On: The Sims 2 (for consoles)

Dictionary.com "Word of the Day" Drawing: dapple

dap·ple - [dap-uhl]

noun
1. a spot or mottled marking, usually occurring in clusters.
2. an animal with a mottled skin or coat.

adjective
3. dappled; spotted: a dapple horse.

verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
4. to mark or become marked with spots.

Dictionary.com "Word of the Day" Drawing: oppugn

op·pugn - [uh-pyoon]
verb (used with object)
1. to assail by criticism, argument, or action.
2. to call in question; dispute.

Dictionary.com "Word of the Day" Drawing: futz

futz - [fuhts]
verb (used without object)
1. to pass time in idleness (usually followed by around ).

Dictionary.com "Word of the Day" Drawing: undertone

un·der·tone - [uhn-der-tohn]
noun
1. a low or subdued tone: to speak in undertones.
2. an unobtrusive or background sound: an undertone of static from the receiver.
3. an underlying quality or element; undercurrent: There was an undertone of regret in his refusal.
4. a subdued color; a color modified by an underlying color.

Dictionary.com "Word of the Day" Drawing: vociferate

vo·cif·er·ate - [voh-sif-uh-reyt]
verb (used without object), verb (used with object), -at·ed, -at·ing.
to speak or cry out loudly or noisily; shout; bawl.

Dictionary.com "Word of the Day" Drawing: canorous

ca·no·rous - [kuh-nawr-uhs, -nohr-]
adjective
melodious; musical.

Dictionary.com "Word of the Day" Drawing: irascible

i·ras·ci·ble - [ih-ras-uh-buhl]
adjective
1. easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.
2. characterized or produced by anger: an irascible response.

Dictionary.com "Word of the Day" Drawing: metier

mé·tier [mey-tyey, mey-tyey]
noun
1. a field of work; occupation, trade, or profession.
2. a field of work or other activity in which one has special ability or training; forte.

Stanford T-shirt

The California Transplant Donor Network just held an organ donation awareness walk. I was asked to design a fun, whimsical image for the Stanford Heart Transplant Program that they could put on their team shirts. This is what I came up with.

Ron the Viking

Ok, just playing around on the new blog, so I thought I'd post an illustration I did about a year ago. This is an all-digital (a.k.a. Photoshop) painting I was asked to do as a 50th birthday present for a friend.

Welcome to the blog!

Just getting started here. Not making any promises at this point, but we'll see how things go...