About Me

For nearly two subsequent years I worked random jobs in sales and customer service while painting digitally fantasy related pictures most of which were entries to weekly challenges and contests on a concept art forum. My parents were extremely worried that I was beginning to fall into the starving artist category. I agreed with them and at some point we made a mutual decision that if by the time two years passed since graduating I did not have an industry job, i would reconsider my profession. Thankfully, the same concept art forum saved me and someone from a local studio found me and hired me to do some contract work for a video game Halo. This was my necessary first foot in the door of the industry.

For the next ten years I worked in numerous studios and on numerous projects – some more indie and some quite famous. My ambitions were to keep getting promoted to higher positions of leadership. I became senior concept artist, then lead artist and finally acquired my dream jobs as an Art Director. But as I gained more experience as an art director I realized that I had a false understanding shaped by rose colored glasses. My job was becoming more and more of a job and not a means of artistic expression. Unfortunately money is a weird beast that both promotes and stagnates progress. And it definitely can take away the soul from creativity.