Intermediate sketch page for my graphic novel "Gaijin-American Prisoner of War"- a tale about a young man, Koji, and his mom, Adeline, as they are illegally interned along with over 100,000 other Japanese Americans during WWII. The image here shows Koji's reaction to the reality of the camp- over crowding, living in horse stalls, poor food and no privacy in the latrines etc. (among all the other obvious slights against the internees- the least of which being their loss of freedom because of their race). For some reason the designers of the camp latrines decided that Japanese Americans didn't need partitions in between each toilet, pencil 2009.

A summer piece for the "WallStreetJournal" Classroom Edition. I think the article was talking about how Americans of differing income spend their summer vacations, gouache and water color, 1997.

Intermediate sketch for article on webmail security protection app for "Computer World" magazine, pencil, 2003

This was a quick warm/cool color study done for my character design class at the College for Creative Studies back in 2000. Was trying to show the power color can have in it's most direct expression- straight out of the tube- to define character, emotion and energy. Gouache, pencil 140 lb. Arches cold press paper.

This is Geoff. I did some sketches of him as the hero of the book "The Monster Who Ate My Peas", by Danny Schnitzlein, Peachtree Publishing, back in 2000. I sent these sketches along with drawings of other kids, including some of my then ten year old son Gabriel, to the publisher. While I did like these drawings of Geoff, I was very pleased when the publisher told me that they wanted to use Gabriel as the hero. Had to pay Gabriel Faulkner a vast quantity of Pokemon cards to get him to sit still while I posed and drew him. Gouache on 300 lb. cold press water color paper.

This is the birth place/castle of Granuaille O'Malley's-Ireland's Pirate Queen, Clare Island, Clew Bay, Co. Mayo. On the day I tried to get onto a tour boat out to Clare Island to photograph and sketch the castle, the tail end of a north Atlantic gale was raging about Clew Bay. No tour boats would make the 10 mile trip out to the island. I waited around a bit, reluctant to miss the one opportunity to get out to the island and, lo and behold, a telephone company boat was heading out to the island. I gave the captain some cash and we road up and down the massive swells. Took us quite a while to make it out to the island. They left me near the castle and told me they'd be back soon. It was dark and I was beginning to look for places to camp out for the night when I saw the boat bobbing up and down towards me. We made it back to port, a little damp and stressed. Got back to the hotel, finished this drawing in the pub with a lovely Guinness by my side (and soon inside me along with a few others). I began doing visual research for the book "The Pirate Meets the Queen" which I wrote and illustrated for Phylomel-Penguin/Putnam, editor Patricia Lee Gauch in March, 2000, gouache of 300 lb. cold press water color paper

Sketches for "Ralph", the scotty in the book I illustrated "The Monster Who Ate My Peas", pencil, gouache and water color, 2000.