illustrator
(Saint Petersburg, Florida, US)
Illustrator and Graphic Designer, Anthony Yankovic, has 9 years experience specializing in junior’s apparel, editorial illustration, skateboard and snowboard art, and brand development.
He has done Art Direction, Design, and Illustration on a multitude of projects including all aspects of the casual apparel industry, skateboard and snowboard graphics, plus numerous album covers, editorial and packaging illustrations.
(1976, California, US)
Visionary American artist, Alex Pardee, and pioneer in what he calls, "trans-media artistry", brings his unique style and aesthetic to all platforms, including numerous creative director credits for music, animation, and film projects. He is a freelance artist, apparel designer, and comics creator writer, best known for illustrating The Used's album artwork.
Pardee's self-proclaimed influences include 1980s horror movies, pop art, graffiti and gangster rap. Alex has been featured in magazines, gallery shows, and notably in the designs for the clothing company he co-founded, zerofriends.
Join Alex Pardee as he teaches you his methods to draw a monster by zerofriends.
(Claremont, US)
This painter, sculptor, and textile artist, Ako Castuera, is based in Los Angeles where she works as a writer/storyboard artist on the animated television show, Adventure Time. Ako has turned her focus to work on paper with a variety of media, primarily using watercolor and gouache. The works continue her ongoing interest in land, the life within it, and the life it sustains.
Her work is colorful and she likes to have the freedom to improvise and change. The materials she uses are an important part of that. Castuera tries to go for tools and paints that seem to have their own life and finds materials that she gets along with. Ako lets their characteristics influence her choices while she is working.The themes are often about the relationship between humans and our home planet.
"Suburban tracts sprawl over hills and are at once picturesque, parasitic, and fragile. They coexist with dinosaur like animal forms that suggest prehistoric life," she says. "Dinosaurs have always inspired awe and fed fantasies of the past. Their extinction forces contemplation of the future, of what's in store for the land, animals, and humans all."
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