Illustration is probably what I enjoy doing most. Most of these pieces were created with traditional media such as graphite pencil, markers, colored pencil, acrylics, gouache and even oils. Lately I have been doing the bulk of my illustration digitally in Photoshop over simple scanned pencil drawings. That 'Photoshop' look seems to be what a lot of Producers and Directors what these days probably because it has the appearance of something that is already 'captured' on film. They are seduced by the high gloss of an image with the appearance of a photograph. It looks as if it already exists so they don't have to go through the trouble of 'envisioning' it. In this respect I am still a traditionalist as I still prefer drawing and 'painting' rather than making a collage out of scanned imagery as so many younger illustrators are doing as the foundation of their work. Although there is a time and place for this kind of practice I fear for the future of film design if this trend continues. Ideas will become more and more homogenized and derivative when the design process consists of images cobbled together however seamlessly, from books, magazines, and the work of other artists. I think we can already feel this flattening effect in films today. Having said this I must admit that I have been talked into this way of working now and then by an employer who asks for it specifically. It seems to me that the best digital artists are still constructing their paintings in a more or less traditional way albeit inside a computer and are achieving magnificent results.