How to save an EPS file from an Adobe® Illustrator® file. To ensure Veer illustrations are compatible with a wide variety of software programs, we request files be saved as an Adobe® Illustrator® 8.0 EPS. This demonstration offers some helpful advice for saving your illustrations before submitting them to Veer. (skill level=beginner)

This tutorial explains how to use Photoshop to remove the dark circles from under the eyes. I use the Clone Stamp Tool to sample lighter areas of the skin into the dark circles under the eyes. This retouch ensures the alteration is subtle and natural. (skill level=intermediate)

This tutorial explains how to use Photoshop to whiten teeth. I show you how to use the lasso tool to make a localized selection; and how to use a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to remove the yellow color from the teeth. (skill level=intermediate)

My desire to show solidarity with my Chilean heritage (50%) after the 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit on February 27, 2010, inspired me to create a patriotic Facebook profile image. Fortunately, all of my 17-or-so extended family in Chile are accounted for and uninjured.
This image, though appearing organic, was completely digital. I use a silkscreen effect by creating Photoshop alpha channels in Adobe Illustrator and exporting as grayscale tiffs. I then apply some actions which rough them up, and then select and fill.

This tutorial explains how to identify and fix a filled shadow using Photoshop. A shadow is the darkest area of an image; a shadow is filled if the RGB value is lower than 5. This tutorial will show you how to use Levels to adjust your photo's shadows to meet Veer's guidelines. (skill level = beginner)

This tutorial explains how to identify and fix a blown highlight using Photoshop. A highlight is the lightest area of an image; a highlight is blown if the RGB value is higher than 250. This tutorial will show you how to use Levels to adjust your photo's highlights to meet Veer's guidelines. (skill level = beginner)

I recently completed this spot illustration for EnergyBiz magazine, March April 2010, page 21. The feature it illustrates talks about how a Korean developer won a contract to build nuclear energy facilities in the United Arab Emirates. I also did the cover of the magazine, with a larger variation of this illustration, but with some camels and a setting sun.
This was constructed with Adobe Illustrator and finished in Adobe Photoshop, with a nitro boost from the Wacom Intuos.

This illustration is to appear in the upcoming issue of EnergyBiz magazine, for a story about President Obama's energy agenda. Tacoma, Washington illustrator Stan Shaw did two versions of this, the first of which featured the same president contemplating an on/off switch for a computer. This captured the concept very well, but did not appeal to the editor of the magazine. Stan revised it with a checklist with obvious energy icons. See more of Stan's work at DrawStanley.com.

The Society of Typographic Aficionados has issued a call to action to the typographic and design communities through the launch of Font Aid IV. Following the project’s theme of “Coming Together”, participants are encouraged to design an ampersand to be included in an exclusive typeface. The final typeface will be made available for sale through several type distributors, with all proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders in support of relief efforts in Haiti.

Deadline for submissions is January 29th, 2010.

Express yourself, help the cause, and spread the word.

I just placed my portfolio on the world's biggest illustration marketplace: the iSpot. This was a move I considered for a long time, as I have built up a considerable portfolio of published illustration. The gallery I posted here contains a sampling of recent work, all digital.
In gathering my portfolio to post on the iSpot, I discovered some works I had not paid much attention to since they had published. Take this one, for example. This was for an article in American Cowboy magazine, a column called Backward Glance. The story was about William Pickett (1870-1932), a mixed-race cowboy who was best known for a rodeo activity called "bulldogging", wherein a steer is subdued by being bit on the lip. Bill Pickett was famous for this type of cattle wrestling, and for this was inducted into the National Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1972.
My strategy was to demonstrate a brave cowboy with crazed ferocity taking on a large bovine. The steer's eyes are a bit crazy, perhaps taken by surprise at the brazen attack from this cowboy.
This image has been added to my illustration portfolio.