About me:

I am a professional illustrator and game-industry Art Director from Oakland, California, USA. My expertise is with strong, colorful engaging work with a lot of personality (and I especially love drawing animals, fantasy and science fiction themes, and anything character-driven.) I primarily work digitally, and I enjoy developing character-driven pieces, especially humorous ones.Like my art, I am known for being colorful and a tad quirky. When not drawing, you can find me developing indie computer games and solving brain-teaser puzzles with my wife, or maybe watching cartoons and playing video games with my teenage daughter.I am represented by Vicky Weber at Creative Media Agency.
For rights inquiring, please contact vicky [at] cmalit [dot] com.

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portrait

A cartoony portrait of the artist.

In 2022, tabletop gaming company Ravensburger asked me to create all of the art for ‘Goats’ Day Out,’ a game for their ThinkFun division, a fun family game about a bunch of ravenous goats loose in the city and eating everything in sight. For this game, I created the cover art along with six player goat cards (each of which had to accommodate a space to place tiles in each one’s belly.) Then there were the dozens of different objects that the goats would eat, all designed to fit into tetromino shapes which the players would try to place in their goats’ bellies.The game was released in 2023.