Dave Carlson Illustration is a full service freelance studio specializing in both hand-rendered and digital illustration. Our work runs the gamut from humorous cartoons to life science/biomedical illustrations, and as our on-line portfolio shows, we pretty much cover everything in-between, including caricatures, editorial and textbook art, wildlife, architectural, technical, logos, spot illustrations, etc. Our clients include advertising and design agencies, corporate and retail, publishers, universities, Uncle Sam, etc.

In addition, we’re associated with a talented network of freelancers, which allows us to efficiently manage large projects such as textbooks and website content.

We also maintain a growing archive of stock art, including many of the images on this site.

Clients: U.S. West Communications, Teledyne, Hewlett-Packard, NASA, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S. Army, Merck, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Hills Pet Products, Colorado State University, BookPage Magazine, New Belgium Brewing, and publishers including PrenticeHall, McGraw-Hill, Barnes & Noble, Macmillan, Peterson Field Guides, HoughtonMifflin, Harcourt Brace, WB Saunders, Wm C. Brown, Lea & Febiger, Kendall-Hunt, and The Oxford Press.

Dave Carlson is a life-long doodler who’s been doing it professionally for the past 20-odd years. In addition to his current freelance career, Dave has held somewhat more secure positions as a newspaper illustrator/cartoonist, magazine art director, university illustrator/designer, and partner/art director/project manager for Visible Productions, a biomedical multimedia studio.

He doodles merrily along at the foot of the Rockies ‘twixt Denver and Cheyenne with the support of his very cool wife and two kids.

Dave designed and produced this website with the patient hand-holding and programming skills of webguy extraordinaire Stew Crawford.

Wearing one of his many hats, Stew designs web pages and teaches a series of classes on digital imagery and the fundamentals of web pages. He prefers straightforward, responsive, clean site design. There's even a book in progress on web design principles, New Ways of the Web: Honoring the User, and other principles.

If you like this site, please write me! Kind words are the encouragement that keeps us all going...