Many people often bother me with the following question:

   "Hey, what do you actually DO?"

Well, in answer to that question, simply put I make digital art, in many flavors and varieties, some of which may be seen on this page. I am well-acquainted with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Image Ready, I work with Macromedial Flash 4 and Dreamweaver 2, and many other programs.

I tend to do all of my work on Macintosh G4 computers, as I have free access to use them, pretty much whenever I want. I enjoy using Macintosh computers for their speed and reliability, their overall handling, and many other factors. I highly recommend Apple products for graphic arts production.

One of my favorite programs to use is Adobe Illustrator. Altough intimidating to the beginner, I have found it invaluable towards the production of high-quality graphics. Since Illustrator produces vector images, work done in it remains crisp regardless of whatever size or resolution you use. I drew this Pikachu in Adobe Illustrator and exported it to a Jpeg file. You can see that the lines are very crisp. Cute!

Many people I've talked to have used Adobe Photoshop, but have not used Illustrator or Image Ready. These programs when used together create a true graphics powerhouse. This page was made using all three programs, plus a little help from Macromedia's Dreamweaver 2 HTML editor. If you are a digital art student (like me) I highly recommend that you take the time to learn Illustrator and Image Ready along with Photoshop. If you're making a webpage, Photoshop can be your basic foundation, with Illustrator as an outside graphics program, and Image Ready as an exporter.

The image above is a reproduction of the logo for the band "Public Image, Limited" that I did in Illustrator. What I like the most about Illustrator is its complete flexibility in image creation, as well as the program's versatility as a whole: Illustrator can be used to render graphics like the ones above, and it can be used to make high-quality page layouts (although there are other programs which do that feature more adequately, such as In Design). Also, Illustrator images which have been grouped into single images (like the ones above) can be imported and modified in Macromedia Flash, which uses vector images along with animation and sound!

I plan on putting more digital art on this page, along with some Flash and even other media (drawings, paintings, etc) as soon as I complete them. Thanks for stoppin' by!