Dave's New Comicbook:
The Null Device
(2008) What started off as a finished version of my 24-hour comic "Soaked" has turned into a fully-realized story with finished art. Check in on this work-in-progress.
Current Projects
Planning the information design for this page was difficult. Should it be sorted primarly by media (web, illustration, etc.), chronological order, or something completion status? After much deliberation and consultation, it seems status-sorting is the most useful for curious visitors:
Current Employment
Web developer for Mindfire Interactive, an internet marketing firm. As lead CSS Architect, I built standards-compliant websites. Learn More
Active Projects
Client work in various stages of development.
Dave's New Comicbook:
Sullivan Creative Selects Marshall Art Studio for Advertising Illustration Campaign
(2007) Sullivan Creative is a strategic and creative marketing services firm that has been providing innovative marketing and branding results to satisfied customers for more than 18 years.
Dave Converts "Six Year Old Horse Thief" as Children's Story
(2007) Presenting this story in its current form to a child failed miserably. Way too much narrative and not enough big pictures. Six years of reading children's books aloud has provided some insights to the genre's rules.
Ongoing Projects
Back-end technical improvements, impulsive artistic projects I enter when time allows.
David Marshall Contributes to Illustration Friday
(2006 - Present) A weekly illustration challenge. A topic is posted every Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation ...
Marshall Art Studio Updates Online Portfolio for Web Accessability Initiative
(2007) The never-ending battle to bring this site to the World Wide Web Consortium's latest accessability guidelines. Currently addressing the Priority 1 and 2 checkpoints. Turn off your CSS + Javascript and take 'er for a spin.
Recently-Completed Projects
Like "Stockton-to-Malone" or "Montana-to-Rice", these "Dave-to-Client" completions are destined for the Hall of Fame.
Marshall Art Studio Launches New Website for Story Street
(2008) Story Street is an angel investment firm, working with search and financial services sectors as an investment advisor and fund raiser.
David Marshall Completed this Year's 24 Hour Comic!
(2007) An annual, worldwide movement: complete 24-page comic book -- story, art, colors, lettering -- in 24 continuous hours. This year there are 93 events scheduled in 18 countries, 31 in the United States. This is my second attempt.
Marshall Art Studio Launches New Website for Peabody River Asset Management
(2007) Peabody River Asset Management is an independent investment adviser offers discretionary investment management for individuals, families, and ...
David Marshall Designs Client Newsletter for LTSave
(2006) Full color, 4-page, single-sheet publication. The content outlines new employment benefits for a major university's new faculty and staff.
David Marshall Contributes to SketchCrawl 12
(2006) On a seasonal schedule, artists from around the world to participate by journaling about their day and what's around them. Participants then post their work on 'blogs, then link to the SketchCrawl forms.
RetroActive
(2006) More proof that bookworms with pretensions to higher art never outgrow their teenage fanboy obsessions.
Ancient History
Can you remember life with no video games, no ATMs and only one Starbucks? Artifacts from a simpler time.
Marshall Art Studio Designs Website for CBS Radio
(2005) As a creative downtime project, I rebuilt one of my old designs from 1999. CBS Radio's "Head for Home" campaign was considered an artistic and commercial success for ...
Shower Powered
(2005) First installment of the "Wacky Accidents" series. In each episode, the same character dies from a different, clumsy household accident.
Marshall Art Studio Launches New Website for Craig Shaw Gardner
(2004) Established fiction writer, specializing in fantasy, horror and science fiction.
Marshall Art Studio Launches New Website for Eddie Marshall
(2004) Established jazz muscian.
Marshall Art Studio Launches New Website for The Federation of Massachusetts Farmers' Markets
(2004) A non-profit organization for farmers, consumers and communities.
Marshall Art Studio Provides Illustration for McGraw-Hill
(2004) Color illustrations for a web-based interactive project, called Guias.
David Marshall Designs Application User Guide for LTSave
(2004) Instructional guide for using an intricate web application. Worked closely with development team for technical accuracy.
Zip's Last Day
(2004) One-shot, short story. A man's sensitive nature and passive-aggressive fury leads to misery, horror and murder.