I am often approached by companies to draw portraits of their employees for their company websites. I really enjoy working with these clients and am always happy when they find me. The portraits in yellow are for Interlock Equity. The grey portraits are for RMWC Commercial Real Estate. The blue circle portraits are for Middlestate, a design company in California. The last portrait is for designer David Watson from Nova Scotia. 
Sometimes things get so busy that I forget to share certain projects. In the case of the ones below, they were done a couple years ago and in rediscovering them I quite like them and think it would be fun to do more work like this.
For Remarkable Magazine about finding a job
For Remarkable Magazine about the Chick-Fil A drive thru system
These projects were for Chick-Fil A’s Remarkable magazine and Family Circle Magazine. It’s a funny thing to draw something and then completely forget about it, but that makes it extra fun to rediscover them.
Behind the scenes of the technology of Chick-Fil A’s drive thru system
For Family Circle about road tripping on Route 66
For Family Circle. Some of the things to see along Route 66
Opener illustration for Family Circle’s Route 66 article
25 years ago today I was at the SkyDome in Toronto with my dad, brother and my brother’s friend. It was my first time watching the Raptors in their inaugural season, and my first time ever seeing Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. The Bulls were 60-8 coming into this game, the Raptors were 17-49. I was a huge Bulls fan, and definitely not a Raptors fan.
Young Joel was crushed when Michael Jordan’s potential game winner splashed through just after the buzzer. The lowly expansion Raptors had beaten the Bulls and I could not believe it. Now 25 years later I can appreciate the game for the momentous game that it was. It was only 1 of 10 times the Bulls lost that season, and it remained one of the Raptors’ greatest victories for years and years, until they finally won the championship in 2019. This game will always be special to me, and I wanted to commemorate it with an illustration. As difficult as it was to draw Michael and Scottie with their heads down, I’m glad I was there.
I have signed prints available of this illustration in my shop.
I made this fun illustration for Imagination Publishing in 2020, right at the beginning of the pandemic. This was meant to be used in a magazine they were designing for a client’s summer 2020 conference. As we went along in the process I wondered if the illustration would be killed since events were being cancelled for the summer. I finished the illustration and almost immediately got word that the conference was cancelled and the illustration wouldn’t run. That’s always unfortunate when that happens, but I’m happy with how the piece turned out.