When I was a kid I was obsessed with tigers and I would draw them constantly. I had tiger posters and stuffed animals all over my room. I would get birthday presents that were tiger themed and I even “adopted” a tiger in Russia named Yevgeny. I also loved lions and to this day I still draw and paint them. Below you will see one of my first tiger drawings that I did when I was 9 years old.

I love to capture life’s interesting moments through sketching. Frequently, I will get the desire to illustrate an experience I had. My friend Shawn, who is also an artist, is the inspiration for a lot of my sketches because him and I spent two years working at a hotel together and sketching guest interactions (seen in my Fun Sketches section). Since then, we’ve been texting and sketching scenes from our lives, most of them done on our phones using our fingers to draw. Below are some of my everyday life sketches done on paper.

I worked on a story board for a project happening in the Fall of 2021. There is a 400 year old White Oak tree in the Otterbein Cemetery in Westerville that will be removed soon. To honor it and its history, the Westerville Arts Council is teaming up with various people (teachers, historians, techies, artists) to create a theatrical gas lantern tour and a projection mapping show around the tree. I created some storyboard sketches of historical scenes for the projection mapping part that were presented and approved by the Westerville City Board.