Interestingly enough, the answer to all three is yes, although I try and keep the collections part down to a minimum.

Yes, I am paid to illustrate. I am also paid to teach, which came as a bigger surprise to me than discovering somebody would actually pay me to draw. I am also paid to do advertising design. I am also paid to do sculpting … from time to time … depending on my workload. I also dabble in web design, because, let’s be frank, there is money to be made in this field.

People often ask me what I enjoy doing doing the most? I think in an ideal world, where money was of no importance, and fulfillment was the measure of a man, which was somehow deposited into an interest bearing credit account, thus eliminating all worries and stress; I would illustrate books for children and teach.

I also like to write, which I do regardless of my inability to form coherent sentences. It is a joyful task at which I continually poke with a dull stick, hoping someday to stir something meaningful to life, thus adding a new skill to my list of preoccupations.