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On my nights and weekends I pursue a variety of passion projects that are usually month long illustration series. You can see work that is both vector, hand drawn with pen and ink, and created digitally.
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Getting real spooky up in here
A selection of my most frightful designs from over the years. Pen, ink and a little bit of spooky!
Created: September, 2018 | Role: Illustrator
Happy Halloween! The spookiest time of the year! Our friend Captain Pancake has his most frightful costume on and is in the Halloween spirit!
Created: October 13th, 2018 | Role: Illustrator
Pieces of various delicious pastries brought back to life!
Jars full of sweet things
A few sweet jams for your entertainment!
Created: October, 2017 | Role: Illustrator
Up, up and away! The skies fill with a cackle of laughter as the Witch Jam takes flight to cast potions and spread fright during Halloween night!
Created: September, 2017 | Role: Illustrator
FACT: The universe began when the jar that contained it decided to joy ride on a comet, and the cosmic contents leaked out.
Crisp air and crisp leaves
Time to cozy up in your warm jackets blankets and pumpkin flavored things!
Created: December, 2013 | Role: Illustrator
Logs often patrol the forest in the Fall showing off their wooden mustaches!
Created: December, 2014 | Role: Illustrator
The best way to scare away crows is the apex predator of the sea!
Created: August, 2014 | Role: Illustrator
An isolated version of my 'Lumberjack Shark' design.
It's time to learn!
Some cute, some total punkasses, it's a collection of characters that know it's time to go back to school and learn!
Created: August, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
Just an awkward but happy little lunch pail heading to school!
Created: September 27th, 2021 | Role: Illustrator
Captain Pancake was once an awkward little dude too! Here he is with braces and book bag, ready to go back to school just like you!
Created: September 29th, 2021 | Role: Illustrator
FACT: Sharks are not real nuts about going back to school, but they do love taking a bite out of their school supplies!
For America!
A growing collection of designs for my home, AMERICA.
Created: August 22nd, 2024 | Role: Illustrator
FACT: Some sharks can in fact grow hair and let that salt and pepper flow rock out in tandem with some sweet patriotic gear FOR AMERICA.
Created: June 14th, 2023 | Role: Illustrator
What batter way to celebrate Flag Day than with a tasty Chicago-style Hot Dog and a big ol' waving red, white and blue American Flag!
"Potential Fireworks Disaster Shark"
Created: August 20th, 2024 | Role: Illustrator
FACT: You might want to be careful with any crates of fireworks and misplaced lighters around any sharks near the, the situation might become a spectacle!
Midwest Winters are the Worst
Late to migrate birds have zero time for the harsh Midwest Winters.
Created: January, 2016 | Role: Illustrator
This robin has had his fill of cold-ass Midwestern Winters.
Created: March, 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Crows, the smartest of the birds of the Midwest, made a dumb decision staying behind for the Winter.
"Annoyed IL Birds: The Sparrow"
Created: August, 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Dressed for the warmth, this sparrow is still totally over the cold.
No Teddy Bears
Cuddly Bears, Bears that like coffee, Bears that like to roam. Here for all the Bears.
Created: July, 2012 | Role: Illustrator
A large grizzly bear lumbers though a pine forest.
Created: March, 2017 | Role: Illustrator
Mr. Bear isn't too keen on his sweet new hat the local birds provided.
Created: January, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
In November, Bears tend to grow sweet mustaches!
A lumberjack's dream
The Log series started with my "Bad Day Log" piece which then turned into sequels, an October Inks run, and happy logs.
Created: May, 2014 | Role: Illustrator
Can't rain all the time...except on this log...and also thunderstorm.
Created: December, 2014 | Role: Illustrator
October Ink of a scary Jack O'Lantern log!
Beaches, ice cream and sharks?
Summertime is here and gotta get out and enjoy that sunshine, but also stay cool!
Created: July 29th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator
Car washes are best when a friendly octopus helps!
Created: February 21st, 2019 | Role: Illustrator
FACT: Sometimes sharks swim pretty close to the shore. However this shark may have broken the surface a BIT too far inland. Just a bit.
Created: April 9th, 2020 | Role: Illustrator
While all the vacationers are in quarantine, the mermen are free to invade the nation's pools and party their asses off.
Plucked right from the blue sky1
Fluffy and thunderous cloud designs!
Created: January 24th 2019 | Role: Illustrator
The Cloud Skater is skating on his trusty skateboard, cruizing right to Summertime fun!
Created: June 2nd, 2020 | Role: Illustrator
This white and fluffy cloud needs hearty, filled to the brim, cup of sunshine to start his day!
Created: June 3rd, 2020 | Role: Illustrator
This grumpy little storm cloud in some sweet sneakers is chomping on lightning bolts and getting all charged up for a stormy night!
Getting decked out
Totaly cool sporty fruits, ghosts, pumpkins and more shredding on their skateboards!
Created: January 28th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator
The Banana Skater is the chillest banana on a skateboard you'll ever see!
Created: February 19th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator
Orange you glad this skating fruit stopped by to say hi?
Created: February 10th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator
A skating fruit that ap-PEAR-ently does the juiciest tricks!
Tasty round pastries
Great with coffee, donuts rule.
Created: August, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
Maple donuts always keep warm with toasty bacon print scarves!
Created: April, 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Who has the best donuts? Chicago! This pastry guy hails from the city of broad shoulders, the windy city, Chicago, Illinois.
Illustrated works for clients
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"NY Tee Club Buffalo Wing Tee"
Created: May 2023 | Role: Illustrator
THE originators of the buffalo chicken wing, my pals at the NYTee club commissioned me to make a sweet bison tee to celebrate the wing!
"Skratch Labs Tandem Bike Sticker"
Created: August 2022 | Role: Illustrator
Who doesn't love a tandem bike with some juicy fruits on it?
Created: August 2022 | Role: Illustrator
Illustration for the email kickstart for Drive-Thru Picks
Da Designs
All of my Chicago-based designs in one handy spot! Da Bears!
Created: December 9th, 2018 | Role: Illustrator
Captain Pancake is a huge fan of a certain football team from Chicago, by the lake, of the Midway!
Created: November, 2017 | Role: Illustrator
Just a loyal Chicago Dog running down Lake Shore Drive to the Bears game, bringing you your lunch!
Sprinkles and Frosting
A series of some delicious looking donuts, created in vector graphics, pen and ink and digitally during the month of March!
Created: March, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
Created: March, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
Created: March, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
Huh, never heard of these dudes
So many dinosaurs, so little time.
Created: September, 2018 | Role: Illustrator
Stalking the Jurassic! The dinosaur you never learned about in school, the Tyrannosaurus of death! The Grim Reapersaur!
Created: August, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
Time for bed for the triceratops of the world.
Created: August, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
A bronchosaurus dad just louncing in his chair, reading the prehistoric paper.
Break out the cake!
Make your bday a special day with one of my birthday themed designs!
Created: July, 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Fact: Sharks love birthdays more than you could ever know and are always hungry for some sweet birthday cake!
Created: April 23rd, 2020 | Role: Illustrator
Fact: Lady sharks love birthday parties.
Love is in the air
Just some sweet, love-filled designs for all the couples out there!
Created: February, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
FACT: Cupid Sharks are just here to spread some loving for Valentines Day to all the hopeless romantics! (And also probably eat you).
Created: February 5th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator
Captain Pancake is ready to fill someone's heart with love as Cupid Cakes!
Created: February, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
Fact: Sharks love LOVE, Valentine's Day, chocolates, flower and candy. And also those headbands with the arrows thorugh 'em. The best!
From Ireland with LOVE
Just a few designs filled with the luck of the Irish!
Created: March 14th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator
St. Patrick's Day is here and your lucky pal Captain Pancake is spreading luck and good cheer while head to toe in his green gear!
Created: May, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
Beware: Sharks have found the end of the rainbow, are dressed like leprechauns or something, and are guarding the pots of gold.
Created: April 10th, 2020 | Role: Illustrator
FACT: St Patrick's Day may have come and gone, but the local sharks still celebrated the hell out of it all dressed in green!
Flowers birds and stuff!
Ring in Spring with some Singing Birds, Green Grass and Storms!
Created: July 11th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator
Spring Birds are okay and let you know Winter is ending, but Summer Birds know how to rock and are the coolest.
Created: December, 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Happy Spring! Happy Summer! The grass is green! Why not have a great day like this EXTRA LONG dachshund living his best life on a journey to get its bone?
Merry Christmas to one and all!
A selection of my most cheerful and festive designs from my portfolio! Ho ho ho!
Created: November, 2017 | Role: Illustrator
Merry Christmas to one and all! Captain Pancake is here and is all decked out in his Santa suit to spread some good will, presents and Holiday Cheer!
Created: August, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
In a horrible experiment in the frigid North, peppermint was grafted to Santa Claus' bones.
Created: September, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
FACT: Santa shark loves gift giving during Christmas and brings presents to all the oceanic creatures!
A super stack of pancakes
The most powerful breakfast buddy!
Created: December 9th, 2018 | Role: Illustrator
Captain Pancake is a huge fan of a certain football team from Chicago, by the lake, of the Midway!
Created: November 26th, 2018 | Role: Illustrator
Guess which Captain Pancake loves birthday? The Captain BIRTHDAY Pancake loves birthdays! Happy birthday to one and all! Treat yourself!
Breaking the water surface to say hey
You didn't know this, but sharks love a lot of widely celebrated holidays and things. Check em out in this series below.
Created: September, 2014 | Role: Illustrator
Fact: Great White Sharks love to swim up into Lake Michigan and watch Bears games.
"The Gingerbread Destruction Shark"
Created: December 7th, 2020 | Role: Illustrator
Fact: Sharks have a hankering for all things gingerbread, best not get in their way.
Created: December 10th, 2020 | Role: Illustrator
Fact: Goon sharks aren't afraid to lose some teeth (they grow back anyway).
Beep bop boop.
Robots of all types, useful, useless, wildly questionable, cute, totally epic and sometimes scary.
Created: September 8th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator
No one expects the Uber UnderwearBot!
Created: April 7th, 2020 | Role: Illustrator
A wooden robot gets a second wind and returns to his roots and blooms!
Hip Hop Hooray
Some Spring themed designs featuring a certain fluffy bunny!
Created: April 14th, 2020 | Role: Illustrator
Captain Pancake donned a bunny costume and is making a break for it with some tasty carrots!
Created: April, 2017 | Role: Illustrator
Please, everyone, anytime during the Spring, please save us from the threat of invading bunnysuit sharks with a hankering for Easter treats!
Created: August, 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Fact: Sharks love celebrating Easter weekend festivities, stealing Easter candy and Easter eggs, and of course, dressing as an imposter Easter Bunny.
For all my dogs
Just a few homages to man's best friend.
Created: November, 2017 | Role: Illustrator
Just a loyal Chicago Dog running down Lake Shore Drive to the Bears game, bringing you your lunch!
Created: May 10th, 2020 | Role: Illustrator
With Brutus the bulldog on guard, these dogs are occupants of quite the inclusive and active dog house community! Puppies are having a blast too!
Bawk B'gaw!
Flightless Midwest poultry having a really weird day.
Created: April 19th, 2022 | Role: Illustrator
Just an absolute unit of a bird. I mean look at this thing. That right there is a freakin chicken. Just a total unit.
Created: April 21st, 2022 | Role: Illustrator
Business. All business all the time. So much business. Lots and lots of business. Don't talk to me, I'm so busy with business. BUSINESS.
It's me!
It's me, in the cartoon styles of my youth! Mainly homages to the greatest game ever: Super Mario 3, but probably some other homages sneaking in here as well.
Created: March 10th, 2022 | Role: Illustrator
Up in the sky! It's Super Mario Nick!
Created: March 10th, 2022 | Role: Illustrator
What time is it? That's right. It's PBJ time.
Everyone's favorite tighty whities
Yes, you read that right, a series of works on socks and undies. It's tighty whitie time.
Created: March 12th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator
Feeling all alone with their buddies lost, a crew of lost socks gather together, and at last, lonely lost socks find new friends and a place to celebrate!
Created: March 5th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator
In your shoe, covering your foot, that sock was picking up all your mad tricks and skills. On it's own, that sock you lost is making a break for it!
Created: September 8th, 2019 | Role: Illustrator
No one expects the Uber UnderwearBot!
Cheeseburger Cheeseburger Cheeseburger
Just a few tasty burger illustrations
Created: August, 2013 | Role: Illustrator
Quite the robotic burger stack coming your way!
The '10s are OVER
The top designs from a decade of work! Thank you so much for your support!
Created: November, 2016 | Role: Illustrator
You might be cool, but are you a skating watermelon with sunglasses cool?
Created: August 27th, 2010 | Role: Illustrator
No ketchup, ingredients like it was dragged through a garden, aviator sunglasses, mustache, stocking cap, it's just a little Chicago Dog!
Created: May, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
NEED PANCAKES? CAPTAIN PANCAKE IS HERE TO SAVE THE DAY!
Is that..nah, no way
Sharks sometimes leave their waters and join humanity in disguise. This is a gallery of spotting of these sharks in the wild!
Created: January 2013 | Role: Illustrator
Save our forests from the destruction of the Lumberjack Shark!
"The Birthday Party Clown Shark"
Created: July, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
Beware: Sharks are infiltrating children's birthday parties dressed as clowns making balloon animals to everyone's delight!
Created: May, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
Beware: Sharks have found the end of the rainbow, are dressed like leprechauns or something, and are guarding the pots of gold.
Join the Danger Huskie Danger Team
Vector works that a fun, cute, scary, and a bit dangerous!
Created: July 20th, 2024 | Role: Illustrator
Happy national hot dog day! This Chicago dog is repping the red white and blue, not of the Chicago flag but of the stars and stripes of the American flag!
Created: April 18th, 2024 | Role: Illustrator
This terrible and evil mummy has escaped its tomb, its sarcophagus and is on the prowl to reclaim its throne in the modern world!
Created: April 14th, 2024 | Role: Illustrator
Oh no! The horror! These pointy vampire fangs have arisen from their slumber and are on the hunt for fresh victims! And fresh blood!
No corners were cut
Pulled no punches, these designs are EPIC.
Created: January, 2013 | Role: Illustrator
The Dark Circusbot travels the land with a show that displays the darkness of the creatures of the night.
Created: May, 2013 | Role: Illustrator
Deep in the dark vacuum of space, epic, awe-inspiring, god-like robots construct brand new stars with their bare hands hands from the fruits of the cosmos!
Created: February, 2017 | Role: Illustrator
If you're patient, they will be revealed.
Twinkle twinkle little stars
In the deep starry darkness of space, these designs dwell!
"Texas Chainsaw Astronaut: New Moon"
Created: August, 2012 | Role: Illustrator
First Threadless print! The Texas Chainsaw Astronaut steps over a moon of death.
Created: February, 2017 | Role: Illustrator
If you're patient, they will be revealed.
For the Dads!
A series of art prints for the Dads!
Created: July, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
The Dad Burger, just reclining in his chair reading the news, has something to say, and it's: HEY! Settle down.
Created: July, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
Dad shark just wants to read the paper and be left the hell alone.
Created: August, 2015 | Role: Illustrator
A bronchosaurus dad just louncing in his chair, reading the prehistoric paper.
Assorted Vectors
Adobe Illustrator and vector based artworks!
Created: February 5th, 2016 | Role: Illustrator
The cupid shark has horrible aim, but a wicked bite!
Created: February 5th, 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Commando Cupid is ready to unleash some love!
Created: February 23rd, 2016 | Role: Illustrator
Lucky's luck hasn't been the best.
So many monsters, so wow
A few monster designs as a part of a contest on Threadless!
Created: February, 2013 | Role: Illustrator
Orignal Monster Mr Melty should probably get back in the freezer!
Created: February, 2013 | Role: Illustrator
Orignal Monster Mr Grin is in a good mood even though his eyesight isn't the best!
Created: February, 2013 | Role: Illustrator
This fuzzy, antler and stocking cap wearing original Monster Mr Caffeine might've over-revved on the 'joe trying to keep warm! So jittery!