ABOUT ME

I was born and raised in Ohio and attended John Carroll University as a Political Science major. After some heavy soul searching, I decided to forego my last semester and move to Los Angeles to pursue a lifelong dream of creating art for a living. I put together a portfolio and shortly after, was accepted to Pasadena ArtCenter College of Design.

After going through the first 6 semesters, I decided to pursue my childhood goal of drawing comics. So I left ArtCenter and joined Andy Park (who had also just left ArtCenter) to start a working studio with fellow artists Jon Sibal, Mark Pajarillo, Norm Rapmund and Jeff Matsuda. Not long after, I was able to draw for companies like Top Cow Studio (with my great friend Alp Altiner), Tidalwave, Playstation Magazine, and Image comics.

Comics led to plenty of opportunities in other areas of art. Soon, I branched out to work as a character designer for Platinum Studios, as an illustrator for Ad agencies like Seineger Advertising and Ignited Minds, a storyboard artist for the Woo Agency, and Vis Dev for Warner Bros.

That leads me to where I am now. After being inspired by some of the great digital painters and concept designers, I decided to go back and finish my ArtCenter degree. I graduated December of 2006 and began work at Disney Interactive Studio in January to start my career as a concept designer.