When I was a kid, my dad taught me the value of hard work and expanding your skills so you don’t spend your life trading time for money. This simple idea lead me to pursue things I was passionate about, and find ways to earn money doing them. I was blessed to have parents that encouraged and believed in me like that.

I started Affluent Designs after my first year of college. I figured I would seek out clients looking for design work at little to no cost in order to get a feel for what client work was like. I figured “book exercises can’t beat real-world experience” right? After a few years and many projects, my time at college came to an end and I dove full-time into illustrating.

I found a niche in doing illustrating for gaming servers, specifically Minecraft, which stemmed from a nearly two-year long stint as a Minecraft YouTuber. Before I knew it, I was working on logos, character drawings, store icons, and full-on illustrated websites. While illustration work is something I still love doing, it only makes up a small portion of the total work I do. My main day-to-day work consists mostly of print and layout design. The majority of my work comes from church contracts including the one I attend myself, 12Stone Church.

When I’m not “working”, I like to play basketball, serve at my church, tinker with electronics, and learn new skills. I am incredibly blessed by God to not only be able to do something I love as a job, but to have the support of my family and friends. I owe it all to Jesus Christ, because without Him, none of it is possible, and none of it is worth it.