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Category: Articles

On choosing a subject.

Since I work from photo, I get a lot of e-mail asking how I go about choosing a subject or model for my work. Generally, I find that my work falls into two categories; Illustrations which are about the model playing a character. Portraits which are completely about the model as a person in real life. […]

Building a home on the web.

The best thing I ever did for myself was building this website. That may sound like a rather weighty statement, but it’s true! Being able to promote myself digitally has been my number one most valuable resource, as a freelancer. Here’s how you can do it too! Get a domain name. First, find a site to register your domain […]

Inspiration — Week of 7/16 (Tekkonkinkreet)

Typically, this post would be full of all the things that inspired me in a given week… But I’m so smitten with the film I watched last night that I felt the need to give it a whole post. Tekkonkinkreet is the story of two orphan boys trying to protect the only town they know. It’s […]

Business Cards

Getting new business cards always makes me think of that scene in American Psycho. While embossing might get Christian Bale excited, I think that showing yourself off should be a lot more fun than all that! Eggshell? Bone? Pale Nimbus? These are not colors, but rather, things that would crumble beneath my mary-janes. My cards […]