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Sketchercise PDF Bundle

Bundle and save! Download my first three sketchbook collections: Sketchercise!, Son of Sketchercise, and Sketchercise 3: A Fistful of Sketches. This PDF bundle contains over 300 sketches, doodles, and illustrations.

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Sketchercise 3: A Fistful of Sketches

A third collection of sketches, doodles, and warm-up drawings by Cedric Hohnstadt. 40-page PDF containing 94 drawings and illustrations.

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Lost and Found (PDF)

A collection of Christian webcomics from Narrow Road Comics. This 36-page PDF contains comics about Christian living, apologetics, social issues, forgiveness, and of course the Gospel.

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Musicologie Mascot

I designed a mascot for an online music school called Musicologie. Have a look at my character design process.

Musicologie is a music school headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. They hired me to design a fun cartoon mascot inspired by the bird in their existing logo: I started with some VERY rough thumbnail doodles, messing around with a bunch of shapes and proportions. Some turned out better than others but that’s how every creative process starts: The client asked me to stay closer to the shape and…

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The Great Exchange (Animated)

New blog post: The Great Exchange (Animated)

This is so cool! I occasionally make Christian webcomics and post them over at NarrowRoadComics.com. A professional animator named Jezreel Carlos took one of my most popular webcomics and made an animated version. The audio is AI generated but he animated the visuals himself, and did a great job! You can follow Jezreel on LinkedIn.

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Camel Mascot for Exodus 90

New blog post: Camel mascot character for Exodus 90

Exodus 90 is a Catholic ministry for men. Their goal is to challenge men of all ages and backgrounds with a 90-day period of fasting and discipline, focusing on three areas: prayer, asceticism (self-denial), and fraternity (brotherhood). They asked me to help them design an appealing mascot that they could use in some of their materials. We talked about a llama and a camel. I started with some…

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Cross Country Road Trip

New blog post: Cross Country Road Trip

Freelancing can lead to amazing opportunities. Last week it just so happened that each of our kids were away from home at the same time for different reasons, leaving my wife and I with the rare opportunity to have the house all to ourselves for a few days. Then I got a call from a national media network to ask if I could travel to Alabama to do courtroom sketches for a sentencing. (I…

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Core Power FPO Comp Art

New blog post: Core Power FPO Comp Art for Event Marketing

Creat Play Connect is a Minneapolis marketing agency that specializes in event marketing. They were putting together an interactive display to promote Core Power at marathons and running events. They hired me to work up some rough concept sketches to pitch their ideas for the display.

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Bookmarks for Goldfish Swim School

Bookmarks for Goldfish Swim School

Goldfish Swim School hired me to illustrate a series of bookmarks featuring their characters. The layout was designed so that if the students collected all the bookmarks they could be combined to make one big image. The bookmarks should be published in the near future.

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NEW Print-on-Demand Christmas Design

NEW Print-on-Demand Christmas Design

For my sketchbook time today I whipped up a fun new Christmas design for my print-on-demand collection. It’s available on multiple items at Redbubble including clothes, mugs, clocks, etc. It’s also available on a smaller number of items from Amazon. Order from Redbubble

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Plush Toys for Goldfish Swim School

Plush Toys for Goldfish Swim School

Goldfish Swim School wanted to create plush toys of their mascot Bubbles and his friends. They hired me to design the toys and do the turnaround drawings. Unfortunately the project has been put on hold due to supply chain issues but they have given me permission to share the work I did.

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Inflatable Snowman Event Marketing Concept

New portfolio piece: Inflatable Snowman

Create Play Connect is an event marketing agency near Minneapolis. They wanted to pitch an inflatable snowman concept to Fiarlife Dairy and hired me to sketch something up to help the client visualize the idea.

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Mini-Comic for Red Bag Ministry

Mini-Comic for Red Bag Ministry

Red Bag Ministry is a Christian ministry based in Pennsylvania. Every year on Christmas Eve teams of volunteers go door to door giving out thousands of red bags containing free food, inspirational gifts, and a Bible. Their goal is to share the generosity and love of God with an undeserved gift that represents the gift of Jesus we celebrate at Christmas. They hired me to create a short mini-comic…

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Classic Comic Book Cover Study

Classic Comic Book Cover Study

When I was young I would often redraw an image from comic books. I could learn a lot from copying what other artists had done. Why did they draw this muscle this way? Why did they put this line here? Why did they include this detail but not that one? Why this pose? Studying a professional artist’s work is a really great way to improve. I haven’t done that in years, so for my latest sketchbook…

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Uncle Sam

I started drawing Uncle Sam in my digital sketchbook. I liked how it was turning out and decided he needed to be on the classic poster. But I couldn’t come up with a funny or clever caption. I googled and saw someone else made a version that said “I want you to pull my finger”. I was tempted to copy that but I didn’t want to steal someone else’s joke. So, I settled on this very mediocre line.

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Sketchbook Dump

New blog post: Sketchbook Dump

Most of my artwork is created digitally but every once in a while I draw on actual paper. Here’s a few recent images from my sketchbook: OK, this one was done digitally: I have two sketchbook collections available as PDFs in my store: Sketchercise! and Son of Sketchercise. Browse Store

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Swish and Spit

Arkray USA is a company using technology to make advancements in healthcare. They have a device for dentists that can analyze a patient’s saliva and look for problems. The wanted a fun mascot character that would help them to sell the device to dentists, and hired me to help them out. We talked about various ideas including a detective, a superhero, or a cartoon character made out of saliva.…

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