I’m a designer, illustrator and serial hobbyist, recently retired after a career in tech. I love learning new stuff, making things, cultural excursions, and laughing till I cry. I’m not much into social media, but I figured why not put together a blog to document and share my post-career escapades – what’s the worst that could happen?











Latest Posts

Meet Gizmo, my tin toy robot GPT
My journey building a custom GPT for envisioning the world of alternative tin toy robot designs

Moho drawing and rigging
Another in-progress project, and developing a personal cadence for switching things up.

Whale Shark
This illustration has been in my head for a while, the first of a planned series in this style.

In progress: first character try
After some e-learning I’m attempting to build and animate my first character in Blender.

Astoria trip January ’25
We took a quick trip to enjoy a fun weekend in the land where Goonies never die.

My other Car is a Robot
Wait, there’s more: I made another site to share my casual obsession with sci-fi tin toys from Japan.

Fab!
Beatles? Legos? Yes and yes. A t-shirt idea that’s been floating around in my head for a minute

Samoca 35 Super
This is the first model I built in Blender after going through a couple tutorials to learn the basics.