Illustration studio — Kansas City, Missouri

Two inks.
Every story.

Book illustrations, editorial art, character design, murals and prints — all drawn in one bold palette of orange and teal.

Taking inquiries for books, newsrooms, walls and print runs.

A framed ink illustration of a fox in a forest hanging on a studio wall
Orange, teal, and the color where they meet.
Selected work

Where the colors cross.

Every piece here comes out of the same two inks. Orange goes down, teal goes down, and the meeting point does the rest of the work.

An illustrator inking a book illustration with a brush pen at a drafting table
Book illustrations — inked by hand, page by page.
Freshly pulled prints stacked on a workbench with a squeegee at the edge of the frame
Prints — orange and teal, edge to edge.
A studio wall half-painted with a large flat-shape mural in orange and teal
Murals — flat planes of color, drawn to the wall.
What I make

Two colors, no filler.

Five kinds of work, all drawn the same way: bold shapes, two inks, and nothing on the page that is not doing a job.

  1. 01

    Book illustrations

    Interiors and covers, drawn to your manuscript and built page by page so the whole book holds together as one set.

  2. 02

    Editorial illustrations

    Pieces for magazines, papers and newsrooms — composed for the page and drawn to be read at a glance.

  3. 03

    Character design

    Faces, silhouettes and expressions worked from a first rough sketch up to a finished sheet you can hand to a team.

  4. 04

    Murals

    Large flat planes of color for walls, indoors and out, drawn to the space rather than dropped into it.

  5. 05

    Prints

    Illustrations printed in orange and teal, with the meeting point of the two inks left showing on the paper.

How it runs

Four steps, no guesswork.

  1. 01

    The brief

    Tell me the story, the format and the deadline. Manuscripts, rough drafts and moodboards are all welcome.

  2. 02

    The sketch

    A black-and-white rough comes back for you to react to. Nothing gets inked until the drawing is right.

  3. 03

    The two inks

    Color goes down in two passes — orange first, teal second — and you see what happens where they cross.

  4. 04

    The delivery

    Finished files for print, or the piece itself, packed flat and sent on its way.

An open sketchbook of pencil and ink character studies on a studio desk
Working proof — the rough the finished piece grows from.
In the studio

Every piece starts as a rough drawing and ends as two flat inks. A commission is only finished when both of them are sitting right on the page.

Commission

Start a piece.

Send the project, the format and the deadline. Tell me where the work is going and what it has to do, and you will get a straight answer back.

  • Studio — Kansas City, Missouri
  • Books · Editorial
  • Characters · Murals · Prints

Drawn in Kansas City, Missouri. Files and physical pieces travel.