Photoshop & Wacom

Audiobook cover for Rubber Houses.


Audiobook cover for Red Planet.


Syracuse Opera Poster for Faust.

Digital Paintings using Photoshop CS2/CS3 and Wacom Intuos II graphics tablet. Sketches for these were all done traditionally--pencil on paper. Color comps and final art were done digitally (Photoshop). A "comp" (short for comprehensive) is a rough study of what the final art will look like in place, with text and other design elements. It gives the client a good idea of composition, color, type placement & design, etc.

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A blast from the past

A couple ads I did for WAER Radio a zillion years ago. These were done old-school. The drawings are pen & ink & the "typesetting" was done in a "darkroom" and adhered to a "mechanical" with "wax" and "rubber cement" on a "drafting table". ("emphasis" on words marked for removal from the lexicon). The piano tie on JAZZ was my brother Jim's.

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