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Member of the Week Adolfo Valle

Member of the Week Adolfo Valle

Adolfo Valle is an artist living near Grand Rapids, Michigan. He's originally from Brooklyn, NY and works primarily in editorial spaces for both online and print. He graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and later earned his MFA at Hartford Art School. He began his career working at Newsweek Magazine as an art director of covers for Newsweek International where he helped design around 400 covers over a ten year span. His illustration work is a mixed...

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March SILA Sketch Lounge

March SILA Sketch Lounge

Wednesday March 27, 2024 7pm – 9pm PT Relax, sketch, fix yourself a drink, and toss it around with other illustrators on Zoom. To get the Zoom link (will be sent an hour before the event starts): RSVP info@si-la.org

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Member of the Week Tian Gan

Member of the Week Tian Gan

Tian Gan, a concept artist at Bad Robot Games, a video game fraction of JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Production. Tian has participated in various famous video game IPs, such as Silent Hill and Pac Man. Her distinctive creativity and designs have been honored with national and international illustration and photography awards, such as Applied Art Awards, Creative Quarterly 72, Creative Quarterly 73, 3x3 International Illustration Awards, and Art Director Club 102th Annual Awards. Her work has been...

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Member of the Week Viktor Farro

Member of the Week Viktor Farro

Viktor Farro is an illustrator and designer with a focus on covers, editorial portraits and graphic novel illustration. His work has been recognized by: The Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles - Illustration West 62 American Illustration - AI42 Creative Quarterly Journal 3x3 Magazine - 3x3 Annual 20 He is a 2023 graduate of the Illustration Program at Visual Arts Passage. He is represented by Kirby’s Comic Art. https://viktorfarro.myportfolio.com/...

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Member of the Week Pashur House

Member of the Week Pashur House

Pashur, grew up in the Music City - Nashville, TN – with no musical talent. Instead, he had a crazy amount of passion for art. He cut out his favorite comic strips from the daily newspapers and begged his dad to take him to a five and dime store to buy a crazy amount of comic books. It took a crazy amount of begging. While in high school he drew a crazy number of caricatures at the local theme park becoming their top artist. All his money went to a crazy amount of art supplies while he studied...

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Member of the Week Bartosz Kosowski

Member of the Week Bartosz Kosowski

Bartosz Kosowski - born in 1979, is an illustrator and poster artist based in Lodz, Poland. He has graduated from Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts and Design where he studied traditional printmaking as well as University of Wroclaw. For the last nineteen years he has been creating award winning posters, editorial illustrations and portraits and has cooperated with such clients as Apple, LucasFilm, Disney, HBO, Canal+, Netflix, Legendary Pictures, "The New Yorker", "The Economist", "The New...

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Member of the Week Chiara Vercesi

Member of the Week Chiara Vercesi

Chiara Vercesi is an award-winning illustrator from Milan (Italy) currently based in Amsterdam. She has gained international recognition for her editorial and advertising illustrations, with a strong emphasis on science and environmental themes. Her work can be found in publications and advertising campaigns across the world. She’s also been spotted giving lectures at universities in The Netherlands and the US, teaching creative practice on Domestika, and mentoring new creatives with The...

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Member of the Week Tom Parsons

Member of the Week Tom Parsons

Tom Parsons is an illustrator, designer and art teacher from North Carolina. He began his career in screen-printing and sublimation, designing cycling jerseys and other printed textiles. Tom is influenced by a wide range of subjects such as narrative art, 3D printing and model making, humorous comics, music, etc. His illustrations start with lots of rough pencil sketches which are then finished digitally with hand painted textures incorporated throughout. Occasionally he also makes small...

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February SILA Sketch Lounge

February SILA Sketch Lounge

Thursday February 22, 2024 7pm – 9pm PT Relax, sketch, fix yourself a drink, and toss it around with other illustrators on Zoom. To get the Zoom link (will be sent an hour before the event starts): RSVP info@si-la.org

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Member of the Week Eric Seaburg

Member of the Week Eric Seaburg

Eric Seaburg is an illustrator and artist living in Sacramento, CA. He is originally from Newtown, Connecticut and has lived in New Zealand, Mississippi, Germany, Connecticut and California. He has a BFA from Paier College of Art and an MFA from Academy of Art University. He has been involved with many types of art. He focuses on book cover and book interior art in the sci-fi, fantasy, mystery/thriller, horror and military historical fiction genres among others. His skills include but are not...

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Member of the Week Kaining Wang

Member of the Week Kaining Wang

Kaining Wang is a concept artist based in Los Angeles. Developing stories and worldbuilding through drawing has always been one of her biggest passions. She loves combining folktales, mythologies, and current events into her stories. Currently she is working on VR games. Her career ranges from theme park design, TV animation, to video games.                   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaining-wang-664133a7/ Instagram:...

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Member of the Week Ed Vargas

Member of the Week Ed Vargas

Ed Vargas was born in a small town in Costa Rica and ever since he was little he loved drawing and observing nature. He majored in graphic design from a local university and with time he realized graphic design wasn’t really his calling. Eventually he discovered Entertainment Art and decided to travel to Los Angeles where he studied Visual Development and storytelling, which led to him shifting his occupation. Since then, he has developed a successful career working for games, animated movies...

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Illustration West 62 Judging Has Finished! Here Are The Accepted Artists –

Illustration West 62 Judging Has Finished! Here Are The Accepted Artists –

© Martin French We received over 1,200 entries from over 441 artists (covering over 30 countires: Australia, Austria, Bangkok, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Egypt, England, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong Sar China, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Taiwan (R.O.C.), The Netherlands, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, United States) this year giving our judging panel (Jennifer...

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January SILA Sketch Lounge

January SILA Sketch Lounge

Thursday January 25, 2024 7pm – 9pm PT Relax, sketch, fix yourself a drink, and toss it around with other illustrators on Zoom. To get the Zoom link (will be sent an hour before the event starts): RSVP info@si-la.org

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Member of the Week Tzenko Stoyanov

Member of the Week Tzenko Stoyanov

“Tzenko is a Stockholm, Sweden based Swedish-Bulgarian illustrator who often resides in Los Angeles, California. He has worked as a professional illustrator since 2001. Part of his youth, he lived in Havana, Cuba, where he started developing an interest in aesthetical matters. Later on he joined preparatory Art classes in The Art Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria, followed by studies in Visual Communication at AKI ArtEZ University of the Arts, Enschede, the Netherlands. After graduation from the AKI,...

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