From as long as I can remember I was interested in faces, studying people, drawing cartoons, comedy and writing. From before the time I could even read; I would pick out a cartoon strip and ask my father to read it to me. My comedy bone developed very early. I'm very fortunate that there is a built in comedy and entertainment aspect to caricature work. It suits me.

As for live caricature work- it's sheer magic when people get together and crack up as the artwork spontaneously comes to life. A caricature is as much an experience as it is a piece of tangible art when it's over. It's a living breathing art form. There is joy and discovery built into every caricature for the cartoonist and the subject. For over twenty years I have been in love with this artform, and the time I spend with people within it are some of my favorite times on Earth.

When I turned 19 I started an art/work apprenticeship in Chicago as a caricature artist under Lothar Speer @ Navy Pier. This time was critical in my development as a cartoonist. For two years I apprenticed, and stood behind the more advanced cartoonists. I watched them draw people before I became a professional caricature artist. Working there was amazing. We would all pour over People magazines, drawing from photos when we weren't drawing people live. We would trade commentaries on facial structure of the people who would walk by. We pretty much lived and breathed caricature talk and art exclusively. (Navy Pier was just teeming with tourists with such a variety of faces to look at.) Airbrushing and drawing at the Pier alongside other caricature artists was truly both my art and business school.

I am forever grateful to not just Lothar but to have had a chance to learn and work alongside Adam Belmares, Jason Seiler, Chuck Senties, Dave Curbis, Illario Silva, Sol Bovey, Ernest Posey, Andy Willis, Kenny Ivy, Richard Carper, Lance Gustafson. These guys all went out of their way to dive into the world of caricature art with me. Later I would meet and gain insight and inspiration from many more cartoonists I had always looked up, Ed Steckley,Tom Richmond, Stephan Pastis (my favorite cartoon strip artist by the way) & so many more.These guys are all Caricature royalty to me. The work they produce is still what I look up to all these years later. The about me section is really about them. Without them, there truly would be no about me section for you to see.

After Navy Pier I opened my own caricature business at The Bristol Renaissance Faire. Being around tourism from the age of 19 gave me an absolute love for it. There is just nothing more fun than hanging out and laughing with people who take the day to spend it enjoying life together and stop by to get drawn with me. I appreciate the following who I call friends every summer at my booth there. It also feeds my comedy appetite. When people let you make fun of things openly, or draw whatever you want when they know you come from a place of love-it's very rewarding. Life can be hard before and after a caricature. But during a caricature we all relax.

The drawing room is a real studio space in Downtown Kenosha, Wi. You can book a caricature drawing there with your loved ones, or commision me to draw from photos, but it's also mobile caricature entertainment for large events and venues that need me to travel to them.

I am involved in other creative work: poetry, comedy writing, unicycling, puppetry. The foundation of caricature work and the principles behind it carry across much of these other areas, and how I think and do these other things. Life is often caricature; working with what you have, laughing at it a little. Pushing and pulling, looking for the bigger picture and trying to be excellent in the simplest form.

Let’s work together