The Work

Due to how I often receive clients, I have an enormous amount of one-off pieces, be they rack cards, custom illustrations, or program recruitment videos. Rather than overwhelm you (and my site’s storage capacity) with my entire work catalog, here’s seven separate pieces I’m proud of.

If you’d like to see how I handle something much larger in scale, head on over and check out my Case Study.

This is a jackalope. If anybody else remembers the America’s Funniest Videos follow-up America’s Funniest People from the early 90’s, you’ll likely remember this guy.

I sketched this image at an artist gathering in Oklahoma City, brought it into Illustrator, and then made it into a shirt.

I have always loved t-shirts, as evidenced by the two dresser drawers that comprise the majority of my wardrobe.

My grandpa was an artist that painted signs and windows in west Texas for decades. My grandma always stocked their house with art supplies so I guess you could say they helped start me in the family business. This ink illustration pays homage to that.

This is how I got my start: drawing. It led me to my concentration on illustration in college so I’ve kept up with my hand skills because I love doing it.

Illustration of two bearded men in baseball caps with red hair drawing and painting each other in a similar fashion to MC Escher drawings.
Printed poster for the play "Waiting for Godot." Image is two bowler hats sitting on a barren tree in the middle of a desert landscape under a moon. The text on the poster is as follows: "Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Directed by Andy Long. Fannin Performance Hall | 7:30 p.m. | October 11–14. KCACTF-Angelo State University | October 26–29. Info: 972-238-6265, andylong@dcccd.edu | richland.com/theatre." There is a branding bar at the bottom with the former Richland College master logo ("Richland College, Dallas County Community College District") and the former tagline for DCCCD ("Higher education that actually gets you hired").

Working for the Richland Theatre department was always a blast. This digital manipulation/illustration poster advertises their production of “Waiting for Godot.” I love print, especially posters. I had so many posters when I was younger that I ran out of wall space and had to co-opt the ceiling.

Celebrating Richland’s “Ducktoberfest,” this flier showcases much of the flock I created. Did you know a college needs a duck playing a sousaphone as advertising? I did.

This is just one configuration of the eight layouts I had to create for every single Richland Student Life event. As they covered print, digital, social, and faced internal and external audiences, I took to calling them “micro-campaigns.”

A flier with illustrations of anthropomorphic ducks in German attire, one playing a sousaphone and one holding a bratwurst in a bun with tongs. In the background are eight other anthropomorphic ducks in various outfits watching. The text reads "OSL Office of Student Life Presents: Ducktoberfest, October 16 | 11 am–2 pm | East Breezeway. Free Hot Dots, DJ, Carnival Games." At the bottom is the former Richland College logo ("Richland College, Dallas County Community College District") and then the Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat logos followed by the text "@RLCStudentLife."

This was the complete set of 2022 Campus Safety Videos our whole production team (plus student and professional actors!) worked on for Dallas College. We had a blast storyboarding, shooting, creating graphics, and acting for it. (Did you see me make my own acting debut at 3:45?)

While I love the impact of a good poster or the quick punch of a digital ad, sometimes you need things to have a soundtrack and bounce around. Or fill a building up with fake smoke and set off all the fire alarms.

In case you didn’t catch it from the title card, this was for the School of Creative Arts, Entertainment and Design (CAED) Fashion Marketing program. I worked with a producer who interviewed Marilia Rosa, an alumni of Dallas College, to showcase her journey leading up to and after graduation.

Creating graphics from scratch rather than a template and a whole video of collage elements that are animated takes a lot of time and extra work but boy, is it worth it. Plus, now I keep an old Singer sewing machine my barber gave me in my office.

Now for a video where I actually run the camera myself! This is my drone reel, a collection of shots where I flew a robot camera around buildings, inside buildings, and chasing after police cars.

I earned my Part 107 UAS Remote Drone Pilot certification in March of 2024. I’ve had a blast flying and shooting footage and mentoring some of my colleagues. I also get to tote around a snazzy-looking pilot license. It’s awesome.