Most projects start with "initial sketches" and then continue to the finished illustration or graphic piece. Some projects, however, have no product and need illustrations or sketches to describe the PROPOSED idea or invention. I have worked on quite a few of these projects and inventions as the "Conceptual Illustration" artist. I did watercolor conceptual illustrations that were use by Formfactor™ to help explain their silicon wafer testing process to prospective potential investors and manufacturers. FormFactor was successful and as a result, these sketches along with the description of their process is in the Smithsonian Institute's 2000 Timecapsule as a representative of the cutting edge technology that will be influencing the direction of life in the 21st century!

I have recently finishe d a very detailed conceptual project that required technicaly precise illustrations, so I used Illustrator and photoshop for this. When the product goes to market i will be able to feature some of the "Initial Sketches" on this page.