About

David is a freelance artist working in the Greater New York area since 1996. After venturing out to Manahattan for school, he soon began working for Curious Pictures. They threw him into the world of commercial and broadcast, working in their newly developed computer department creating animated graphics and illustrations. The commercials ranged from graphic design, to rotoscoping stop motion rigs to doing on air illustrations. From there he worked for such companies as @radical.media, Mattel, The Jim Henson Company, Nearlife, Hornet Inc, RSA, Possible Worlds, Flickerlab, and most recently as art director and lead designer for SpeakeasyFX on their Emmy winning Sesame Street segment, Abby's Flying Fairy School.

The projects he has worked on were for such end clients as Marvel Entertainment, Sesame Workshop, Nickelodeon, Disney, MTV, Saturday Night Live, and The Cartoon Network and included storyboards, character desings, environment designs, animation, style frames, and more.

With his slightly dark but whimsical creations, David conjures a fantasy land just shy of reality with dreamlike inhabitants, using mediums from pixels to paint to sculptures to photography.

Friend has illustrated for books such as Blueberry Mouse (Alice Low / Mondo Publishing), Daniel and the Great Bearded One (Richard W. Friend III / Mondo Publishing), The Squampkin Patch: A Nasselrogt Adventure (J.T. Petty / Simon & Schuster) and Clemency Pogue: The Scrivener Bees (J.T. Petty / Simon & Schuster)

He is also an avid lover of puppetry and continues his theater and television endeavors in the field. He most recently was approached by Heather Henson to create Moonfishing, a short film for her Handmade Puppet Dreams series