Hello!

I’m Christopher.

I’m an artist living in Seattle who has been enmeshed with the video games industry in one form or another for over 20 years. I’ve worked as a studio art director, a UX director, a creative director, a game designer, a UI artist, a radio DJ, a podcaster, an ad designer and an illustrator. I’ve worked at large corporations and small studios and I tap into that experience in my coaching and mentoring practice. I’m someone who absolutely loves the process of creating art, and the only thing I love more is inspiring others to notice the beauty of the world around them - to find things that compel them to create.

My story is that I grew up as a video game loving art nerd in the Pacific Northwest. As a kid both of my parents were freelance artists and creating art as a lifestyle was instilled in me as an important part of the human experience from an early age. I started drawing a daily webcomic and posting it on the internet around 2000-2001 and through establishing daily rituals that become routine, I developed a creative practice that expresses my love of the little mundane aspects of life.

I graduated from Central Washington University in 2006 with a BFA in Studio Art with a specialty in Computer Art. During my time at CWU I had a games and geek culture radio show called The Weekly Geek, which ran as a weekly podcast and enthusiast press blog from 2006-2012. I spent some time after college working as a designer for Microsoft and Amazon, then joined PopCap Games in 2013 on Bejeweled Blitz and got hooked on making games. Around that time - during the birth of my first kid - I started drawing journal comics to document the little moments when you’re a new parent that you might be too exhausted to remember. I continued this practice of making journal comics and posting them on the internet and have heard from many people over the years about how much they enjoy reading them as a part of their daily lives.

In my free time I like to play video games with my kids, climb fake plastic rocks at the gym and read books about video game history and food anthropology. My current hyperfixation rotates on what seems to be a monthly basis.