Wind Creek Casino Tools used: Adobe XD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe AfterEffects, Protopie, Lottie From 2018 to 2020, I enjoyed the position of Senior Experience Designer with Wind Creek Hospitality, a Tribal casino operator based in Atmore, Alabama. In this position, I was the sole art lead for Wind Creek’s social casino project, windcreekcasino.com. I helmed…
Slot & Lottery Game Art From 2015-2018, I worked at Scientific Games in Chicago – first as an Associate Artist, then Core Artist, then Artist II. This role allowed me to work on top-tier licenses like The Simpsons, Seinfeld, and James Bond, as well as help develop original IP. Depending on the needs of the…
Food Fight! Food Fight! is a concept for a cooking battle card game for 3-6 players. In this game, players draw cards from a shared deck containing cards with both cooking ingredients and sabotages; in a fast-paced, 60-second round, players compete to build a dish with the most matching ingredients while sabotaging their competitors. Once…
Blackhat: A CCG concept Blackhat is a concept for a collectible card game set in a gritty near-future, where the the player takes the role of a questionably nefarious ‘black hat’ hacker, working against the game itself to steal from evil corporations run amok. I illustrated and designed all aspects of this concept. My goal…
The Robot on my Tummy The Robot on my Tummy is a children’s book for young kids with Type 1 diabetes, written by Gillian King-Cargile. The goal of the book was not only to destigmatize Type 1 diabetes, but to help frame it in positive language. Hopefully, with this book, young kids with diabetes have…
Stuffed Bunny Science Adventures Stuffed Bunny Science Adventures is a series of 3 children’s books produced for Northern Illinois University’s STEM Read outreach program. Published by NIU Press in 2015-2018, it can be found through major retailers including Walmart and Amazon. Each book in the series, written by Gillian King-Cargile, addresses a different major STEM…
Kid Lit Character Design Character design for an unreleased children’s book. Working through designing the shape and personality of a stylized lighthouse keeper character. With this design I was trying to focus on communicating a wacky, friendly, old tinkerer.
Travel Art On August 1, 2021, I packed what few belongings I had onto a bicycle, and set off to ride around the world. In a trip that will come to span more than 10,000 miles, I rode in a mostly-continuous line from Los Angeles to Istanbul. Along the way, I made sure to catalog…
Portraits Beginning in late 2020 for about a year and a half, I supported myself by painting portraits through private commission. Portraiture is frequently my favorite method of artistic expression in my own free time. It brings me great joy to imbue a portrait not just with a convincing likeness of my subject, but to…
Pet Portraits Beginning in late 2020 for about a year and a half, I supported myself by painting portraits through private commission. Most frequently, my business revolved around traditional pet portraits, worked in oil or acrylic on canvas. This was a delightful change of pace from my overall work history, and it was a perennially…