I'd like to thank you for visiting my site. Since 2004, I have worked as an art director with a few of the top advertising agencies in Dallas, Texas and New York. During my experiences, I was exposed to many different forms of advertising such as print, web, broadcast, POP, direct mail, branding, and promotional advertising. With this, I am also experienced in Adobe CS, (Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, etc), Sketch, and Power Point among other software on both Mac and PC platforms.

I choose to look at Art Direction as, well, art. I treat a web site, banner, flier, and brochure like a painting. The copy is just as an important shape as any photo or vector drawing. They are all elements on the canvas. The challenge is to make them all flow together. Art direction forces one to learn and study. To think more in terms of "what if". To ask, "How can I say this in the shortest time and in the most ways?".  Art direction and painting work hand in hand. Being an art director, I continue to learn better ways to construct a story on canvas. Being a painter, I am pushed to explore opportunities to much the piece for the client.

I am an ARTIST. Art Direction helps me be better at it
...and pays the bills.

As of Fall 2010, I participated in shows and programs with the Dallas-based group, ArtLoveMagic. With this  group, I was involved in art shows and charity functions that have raised thousands of dollars for local, national, and world wide charities through the members' artistic talents. This gave me the chance to give back through my talents. Also, I am a founding member of the Just.Us.League, a free style art collective created by Jerod Davies. This group, like ArtLoveMagic, does art shows that benefit many charities by way of creating live murals every month that are sold at the end of the year for youth workshops and other events. In April of 2011, the J.U.L. hosted "Flood of Emotion", a benefit in which over 100 pieces of art were donated and auctioned for over $15,000 to aid the flood victims of Japan. In December of that year, J.U.L hosted an end of the year gala at the Hilton Anatol in Dallas, Texas to auction all of the murals created in 2011 to fund children's art workshops for the following year.

I was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Dallas, Texas. Since the age of four, I've been involved with art in some sort of way from painting to drawing characters in sketchbooks. Later, went to Skyline High School in Dallas, Texas and studied in the Ad Design cluster, played football and studied Tae Kwon Do at the Park South YMCA. From there, studied Communication Design in college. In the summer of 2001, I joined Os Malandros de Mestre Touro and began training in the art of Capoeira Angola de Sao Bento Grande. In 2003, graduated from Texas A&M - Commerce with a degree in Communication Design focusing on Art Direction.