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I’ll be speaking at the upcoming ICON5 Illustration Conference in New York over July 4th Weekend. I’ll be joining Gedeon Maheux and Von Glitschka to talk about “The Art and Science of
Icon Illustration”. If you’re going to be at the conference, definitely stop and say hello!

More information on session can be found here.

Things are getting close now, it looks like we are on schedule and just hit the wax mold stage of production.

The wax model will be used to produce the production molds that the vinyl will be injected into.  So we’re getting very close to having a final product!

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I wasn’t entirely sure how translating my drawings into a vinyl toy would work out, but I knew it would be fun. At the same time, I didn’t want to get my hopes up too much just in case.

Now I can definitely say that I haven’t been this excited since Christmas morning when I was little. I could barely sit down for a few hours after I saw how the sculpting was coming along! They hit it spot on and I doubt there will be too many tweaks needed at all, although it’s still a bit weird to see something you’ve made cross from 2d to 3d.

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You may be familiar with one of my characters named Zog, if not by name, then definitely by sight. He’s the big purple guy from the first Somatic icons, and he can often be spotted sleeping on a grassy hill, or hunting marshmallows.

Thanks to the insanely huge help of Strangekiss, Zog has started his journey to become more than just a drawing. In not too long, you’ll be able to hold his rotocast vinyl body in your hands and chase your own marshmallows around the floor. So, to celebrate this great news, I’ve put together a sneak peek of concepts and production art to share.

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October 27th will be an exciting day for me! First off I will be getting married to my fiancée Kim who I’ve known since first grade. Also I will be having a drawing in the Pink Ghost group show “Purgatory: Soul’s Lounge”. My drawing is called Ice Cream Social.

I was asked some questions on a range of topics, mostly centered around icons and design on the mac, by the great guys at MacThemes.net. Check it out here.

If you’re in Portland, be sure to check out this month’s issue of the Portland Mercury. It’s using my drawing School Boy, for the cover graphic.

Been enjoying my Nintendo Wii so much! If you want to add me to your friend list my code is 0600 3257 4546 2860. Also made a Wii icon for the Iconfactory’s Quickpix, grab it while it’s hot!