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Grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Art was a hobby early, started with traditional drawing and by the time I was 13 I was using my Aunt's Word perfect software to design templates for custom cover art for cassette tapes I would make for myself and friends. Was inventing company names and designing logos and such from an early age. Started with fictional skateboard companies my friends and I were going to start but never did. My art took a backseat for extended periods of time to concentrate on music or life, wife and strife. In my mid 20's music took a backseat to kids and the pursuit of a picket fence. I took a job at a local screen printers and after spending my days around POP printing, advertising and logo's, it reinvigorated my artistic desires. Worked with a former comic book inker who was also starting to pick up his former passion as well and he brought me along on my pencil and paper skills. I've all but abandoned the pen and paper these days and work almost exclusively on the PC through PS mostly. Anymore I work on whatever interest me, whether it's designing a logo for a friend or a company I have been a patron of and thought they could use a nicer branding. I've never been paid for a single piece and doubt I ever will. I do it for fun and because I like to learn.