MADE FOR ART

Ernie Chan who used to be Ernie Chua, changed it legally when he became a US citizen in 1976. He was 20 when he begun doing comics in his native Philippines. He migrated to America when he turned 30 in 1970. At DC Comics, he got the break doing mystery short stories then later got [...]

http://addanaccity.com/wordpress/ I have been drawing ever since I was three years old (I’m in my mid-thirties now). Raised as an only child in a small rural town in south central Virginia, I had little choice other than to formulate my own entertainment. Mostly, I read a lot and I drew even more, using my imagination [...]

A native of North Carolina, I’ve spent most of my adult life living and working in New York City. Living in an environment like New York it’s nearly impossible to not be influenced by the city’s diverse creative energy and after a time I was inspired to explore my own creative nature. For the last [...]

International and published artist, Maude McDonald, picked up her first paint brush at the age of eight from a little wooden painter’s box received as a gift (which she still keeps in her studio). Self taught until the age of 20, she was accepted into the Museum of Fine Arts Academy in Houston. She continued [...]

Despite the absence of formal art education, few things were spared from serving as my canvas. Drawing became a childhood obsession turned into my lifelong passion. My specific love of sequential art birthed with the purchase of my first American comic book – Uncanny X-Men #271. While attending college for a marketing degree, I continued [...]

Duncan Long has created book cover artwork and illustrations for HarperCollins, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, PS Publishing, Pocket Books, Solomon Press, American Media, Ilex, ISFiC Press, Moonstone Books, Fort Ross, Enslow Publishers, and many other publishers and self-publishing book authors. He has been selected by the Collaborative Summer Library Program as a featured illustrator for [...]

Monsters, Ghosts and Children, Oh my! Childrens book illustrations by Dan Monroe Dan Monroe has been drawing since he could lift a pencil. He often jokes that he was born with a pencil in one hand and a paintbrush in the other – which must have been extremely painful for his mother. From a very [...]

With this being October, and Halloween right around the corner, I thought it would be great to have aLeXa Smothers as the FEATURED ARTIST of the month and showcase her MASTERS OF HORROR series; and she agreed!! The Wendigo, from Algonquian teaching-tales. When the with-in is unsatisfied, the with-out is ever wanting.Gustav Friedrich Max Schreck [...]