Hi! Iām 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 don’t do much social media, but I figured why not put together a blog to document and share my post-career escapades ā what’s the worst that could happen?
Latest Posts
Annotated Beatles
A concise anthology of the Fab Four as interpreted through their UK discography.
Cocktails!
A page for sharing (and keeping track of) recipes for some tried and true adult beverages.
Double Bubble clock light hack
For years, I’ve wanted to control my repro clock lights separately when it’s plugged in. Done!
Nixie clock
my first post-work hardware project, a case design for some throwback tech with enduring appeal.
Jay (Illustrator)
Working with Adobe Illustrator’s Mesh and Warp tools to simulate a watercolor effect in vectors.
City (Illustrator)
Another one on the back burner for quite a while; exploring new techniques and fun with color.
Meet Gizmo, my tin toy robot GPT
My journey building a custom GPT for envisioning the world of alternative tin toy robot designs
2D character rigging (Moho Pro)
Another in-progress project, and developing a personal cadence for switching things up.
Whale Shark (Illustrator)
This illustration has been in my head for a while, the first of a planned series in this style.
In progress: first character try (Blender)
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! (Figma)
Beatles? Legos? Yes and yes. A t-shirt idea that’s been floating around in my head for a minute
Samoca 35 Super (Blender)
This is the first model I built in Blender after going through a couple tutorials to learn the basics.
Blender droid for Substance
a service droid model I made in Blender to learn texturing with Adobe Substance Painter