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Art Direction
Illustration
Animation

Accepting Projects & Speaking

❋ BoneHaüs

– the independent creative studio of Kirk Wallace. I build and support brands with thoughtful, detailed, relatable art. I also lead workshops, speak at events, and teach courses on the internet and on stage.

Cartoon orange spiky star with eyes

COMMERCIAL Work

Welch's Fruit Snacks package surrounded by cartoon fruit characters including a cherry, strawberry, banana, and an apple on a white background.

Character Design

🍌 Welch’s Fruit Snacks 🍓

Illustration of a person dancing alongside a robot in a playful pose on a yellow and white background.

Advertising GIFs

✋🏼 Inference / Cloud9 ✋🏾

Cartoon cowboy character with a stick horse, wearing a hat and boots.

Illustrated Identity

🤠 Musiquest 🐴

Smartphone displaying a messaging app with stickers and GIFs. A cartoon dog character sticker is visible in the chat conversation, depicting the dog driving a car filled with luggage.

Animated Stickers

🚗 Facebook 💀

a 2d illustration of two cars facing off ready to hit a soccer ball in the center like rocket league

Animation Production

🏎️ Intel/Rocket League 💨

A grid of colorful icons including emojis, symbols, and various graphic elements on a blurred background.

Iconography

🧶 Ravelry 🪡

Illustration of an elderly man pruning a bonsai tree with scissors. Shelves with small potted plants are visible in the background.

Brand Animation

🪴 In Good Company / Mass Mutual ✂️

An illustration of two young workers standing at a desk. One is on a workout ball with bright orange tall hair, another with an outdoor jacket leaning on the table. Some expressive shapes are floating above them to indicate creativity.

Creative Direction

💳 Wagepoint Payroll 💰

Billboard with a Chase advertisement displaying "Now Open" and a colorful city illustration.

Advertising

🏢 Chase Bank 🏃🏼‍♀️‍➡️

More Work →
Simple red cartoon face with a crown-like shape, eyes, and a smile.

Workshops & SPEAKING

Promotional image for a Skillshare course titled "Powerful Projects! Telling a Story with your Work" by Kirk Wallace, featuring a smiling man in a cap and a casual setting.

  ★ Top Teacher  

✏️ Creating Case Studies

Skillshare: Sharing work to connect with an audience

Digital artist drawing roller skate designs on a Wacom tablet with YouTube play button icon overlay.

🔴 Workshop

Wacom: Distilling Everyday Objects Into Exciting Bits of Joy

🎙️ Adobe Live

Collabie: Produced & hosted a weekly show on Adobe’s channel

Logos of various organizations, including Picto Plasma, Creative Mornings, AIGA, Wired, University of Hartford, Utah Valley University, Creative Bloq, Lesley University, Adobe Live, and MECA&D.
SPEAKING INFO →
Green globe with smiley face, featuring grid lines and large eyes.

 Social & Brand Partnerships

Portugal a few weeks back. I have some pictures from Iceland too. I’ll share them when this post gets 40,000 likes and a comment from 3 A-list celebrities. Pointing my phone at the tops of a lot of buildings, second time surfing, seeing a CAS
Had a close call with my car! While working on it, the jack slipped out and kinda crushed my hand between a jack stand and pinch weld! The X-ray description made me laugh, “car fell on hand” and result is some small fractures to my metac
“The hole in your heart put a gun in your hand” In solidarity with the protestors, families, neighbors and friends in LA and beyond. 🔥🔥🔥 🔥🧊🔥 🔥🔥🔥
Truly one of life’s best birthday gifts is a big giant bowl of colorful cereal. 🥣 That’s it. That’s my statement for the day. Oh! And the other night my friend and I got some fancy new one and we were like hmm the marshmallows
Buncha cuties inspired by various music genres and icons for MusiQuest. I’ve been working with them for.. 5-6 years now in world-building. One of my favorite projects. 📣 Taking this time to remind that I have 2 classes with Illustrator Summ
Logos of creative and design brands including Wacom, Astute Graphics, Bernie, Tourbox, Dribbble, Skillshare, Domestika, Adobe, and Work Louder.
BRAND PARTNERSHIP →
A photo of Kirk Wallace in his studio with plants all around.

ABOUT KIRK

Kirk stumbled into illustration after graduating with a degree in engineering. Raised by the internet, the first graphics he created were avatars and signatures for online forums.

It was right around the time of graduation that he realized visual art was something I actually felt passionate for.

Now, between skateboarding, chasing the dogs, and some table hockey, he spends his time making meaningful and thoughtful illustration and animation for brands and himself every day.

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Photo by Josh LaFayette
Abstract illustration of a stylized skull with black eyes, nose and a yellow stick-like element on a dark background.

PERSONAL WORK & MERCH

Collage of Bonehaus merchandise featuring a black t-shirt with colorful cartoon designs of various characters, close-up details of embroidery, and assorted themed stickers and cards.

T-Shirt

Screen printed shirt with enamel pins and custom embroidery

PURCHASE →
Wooden toy blocks arranged to form a cartoon skeleton figure wearing a small hat, on a plain background.

Wooden Toy

Hand made wooden toy sold in a limited edition of 25

SOLD OUT
Decorative keycap on a black card with a skeleton graphic, yellow background.

Enamel Pin

An extra tiny flower in a bottle for the lapel of your coat or bag

SOLD OUT
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New BUSINESS

I like talking, speaking, chatting, and screaming, so let me know what you’ve got in mind for collaboration. A hello, or hate mail is fine too, thanks so much :smooch:

Kirk@Bone.Haus

Man with tattoos on arm wearing a black t-shirt, holding a cap, sitting indoors with a wooden wall and abstract portrait painting in the background.