Illustration portfolio

As a young boy growing up on Staten Island, N.Y., James loved to draw and paint – landscapes, portraits, animals – anything he saw that inspired him. Before long, fascinated by political cartoonists’ ability to create caricatures with a minimum of lines, he was drawing his own political cartoon strip, “Scitilop” (Politics, spelled backwards). By the age of 12, he was creating illustrations for a local college newspaper.

Today, that love of art lives on in James’ wide range of work – in which he employs styles including caricatures… portraits… realistic illustrations… conceptual illustrations… sophisticated cartoons… and many, many others. He uses pencil, charcoal, pen-and-ink, paint, paper collage – and mixes hand-drawn elements with digital images with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator – to create that single picture that is worth 1,000 words.