about

  • Izzy visually develops and writes original IPs, screenplays, and stories.

    Each property is fun, fresh, and thoughtfully crafted. They are constructed conscious of budget, with market awareness and ready built for transmedia production and expansion.

    He also operates as a consultant creative director to help refine existing IP’s characters, magic systems, technology, art direction, conflict, and lore.

  • Izzy has operated as both Creative Director and Art director leading teams of artists, designers, animators, and more on original and licensed entertainment industry projects.

    Experience with managing in-house artists and out of country design, animation, and FX studios. Each with dozens of incredible creatives.

  • Izzy has an extensive CV and portfolio helping define AAA projects with some of the entertainment industry's biggest names.

    He has specializations in designing characters, creatures, and cultures; as well as compelling illustration and dynamic painting.

  • Over fifteen years, Izzy has helped hone some of the best creative minds now dominating the entertainment industry.

    His practical methods to painting and design by mastering the Logic of Light & Color are now available in simple and concise lessons online. (See TUTORIALS above)

  • • Original IP Worldbuilding

    • Concept Development

    • Story & Narrative

    • Art Direction

    • Teaching / Team Leadership

    • Drawing / Painting / Design

    • Guided Ideation

    • Visual Development

    • Worldguides & Art Bibles

    • Product and prop design

    • Transmedia Franchise Dev

    • Branding & Marketing

Izzy is a veteran lead concept designer, illustrator, teacher, and art director with a specialty in narrative development and writing skills. If you are looking for strong original vision in a creative leadership position, CLICK HERE.

He has contributed to dozens of projects including; Magic: The Gathering (The Animated Series), League of Legends, DOOM (2016), Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, God of War: Ascension, Starhawk, Magic: The Gathering (TCCG), God of War III, Dungeons & Dragons, and many more.

After several years of developing original IPs and adventuring in Mexico aboard his sailboat, Izzy has settled back in his home country of the United States.

Now based in Portland, Oregon, Izzy continues to be an avid traveler, writer, gamer, reader, and art streamer. He is working hard developing new stories, comics, and art including continuing to work on his original series “COLLAR”, the sequential short story series “Granny Claymore”, the dark nursery rhyme “The Sheeple are Shy” and the short story “MAGGOT”.