ABOUT

30 Years of Experience

I’ve been a designer and illustrator for 30 years. When we work together I will bring a diverse set of skills and professional experience to help you visually communicate your ideas.

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    • Affinity (v2 and v3)

    • InDesign

    • Illustrator

    • Photoshop

    • Procreate

    • Blender

    • Keynote

    • Notion

    • Scrivener

    • Slack

    • Nomad Sculpt

    • Pages

    • Numbers

    • Creality 5W Laser

    • Creality Ferrit 3D Scanner

    • Anycubic Resin 3D Printer

    • Elegoo Filament 3D Printer

    • 10” Table Saw

    • 12” Band Saw

    • Router Table

    • Spindle Sander

    • Drill Press

    • Airbrush

    • Flatbed/Transparency Scanner

    • Lumix G7 Camera

    • Animation (Blender)

    • Cavalry (motion graphics)

    • Lightburn

    • DaVinci Resolve

    • (CASE) District II, Bronze, Visual Design in Print of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education category: illustrations for Rochester Review magazine.

    • 4 PRSA PRism awards

    • 2 Rochester Business Journal Best of the Web awards

    • UCDA (University and College Design Association) 2009–present

    • RocMaidan, volunteer

  • Marketplace where I sell 3D model files for use in scale modeling or Playmobil toys.

    Mike O. Makes Stuff

  • The greatest database for the scale modeling hobby. A great place for research, community, and showing off your builds.

    My Projects

  • I’ve got a last name that’s hard to pronounce: Osadciw, a Ukrainian surname. If you can read the Cyrillic alphabet it’s easy enough to pronounce: Осадців. See? But in the Roman alphabet, not so much.

    Many friends, colleagues, and clients have been calling me Mike O. for a long time. While I really appreciate it when someone puts in the effort to try and get it right (Paul Burgett I’m looking at you, you gentleman and scholar, you), I understand that it’s unusual, making ‘Mike O.’ a suitable alternative.

Hobbies

I certainly have too many of these, but the skills gained can, and have, woven themselves into my professional projects.

Apart from drawing, my longest running hobby has been scale modeling. After a long hiatus for most of the 1990’s and early 2000’s, I picked it up again and was shocked at how much it had grown since I’d last put glue to plastic. I think I’ve gotten pretty good at it too; it’s a hobby that scratches my history and creative itches at the same time. Some of my work can be seen here on Scalemates. Modeling got me into 3D printing as well where I can design and sculpt my own bits in Blender and, for some, sell them on Cults3D. I almost exclusively build 1/35 scale armor and figures with the occasional Star Wars subject thrown in from time to time. An extension of this has been a bit of cosplay prop creation for my son. I’ve been toying with the idea of building commissioned scale modeling pieces soon. If you’re interested let me know.

I’ve built some outdoor furniture, fixed lots of things, and gotten fairly good at coping a miter (doing it right is the secret way to make it look like you cut perfect 45 degree angles in molding when you didn’t). Owning old homes and being frugal made learning some DIY skills a necessity.

I’ll be using the blog on this site to detail many of my projects, ideas, and forays into the unknown. Check it out and comment; I’d love to connect with more people interested in what I’m up to.