Hello!
I started my freelance career just after graduation from University of the Arts in Philadelphia and continued to create caricatures for alt newspapers around the country, including The Philadelphia Weekly, where a majority of my illustrations were commissioned in the early 2000s. Other clients include: Universal Studios, Official Playstation Magazine, Star Wars Kids Magazine, Scholastic, Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine, The Source, Magnet Magazine, Harp Magazine, Keep-A-Breast Foundation, OC Weekly, & The Seattle Weekly.
Originally from Ocean City, NJ, I moved to the Philadelphia area to attend college, lived in Charleston, SC for a while, and now I’m back in Ocean City. My first illustrations were painted in oils on canvas, and then on claybord (a primed masonite surface) in order to give my illustrations a cleaner look. In the mid-2000s, I embraced the digital age by scanning my drawings and painting them digitally.
I have drawn cartoons and people for as long as I could doodle. I enjoy faces and have a knack for remembering people by their features. Traditional caricatures tend to mock their subjects, but I usually try to flatter my subjects through my style of illustration.
Some of these pieces took me many, many hours to create, while others I was only given a short amount of time to complete. At my busiest, I was creating 2-3 illustrations for the Philadelphia Weekly and other periodicals over the course of a weekend! I was basically a hermit in the early 2000s. I am forever thankful for the crazy, steady work I had as a young illustrator, as it was a great crash-course in the industry. I hope you enjoy my work!
Fun Facts: I was a guest Tweeter for Portlandia. I like Star Wars, dinosaurs, Legos, food, and pets. But not together.
My wife Erin and I co-founded McArt à la Carte, a ‘fun arts’ class destination for all ages in Woodbury, NJ. Check it out!