Member Spotlight

Member of the Week – Ian Dale

Member of the Week – Ian Dale

Ian Dale is a Los Angeles–based children’s illustrator creating lively character-driven illustrations with a versatile semi-realistic style. Ian is especially drawn towards projects that make a difference in people’s lives, and seeks to explore how visual art can...

Member of the Week – Barbara DiLorenzo

Member of the Week – Barbara DiLorenzo

    BARBARA DILORENZO graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration and studied painting at the Arts Students League of New York. She is the author-illustrator of ONE THURSDAY AFTERNOON (Flyaway Books), RENATO THE LION...

Member of the Week – Daniel Sulzberg

Member of the Week – Daniel Sulzberg

Daniel Sulzberg is a Santa Barbara based award winning illustrator and writer that specializes in bright, wonderfully wacky, and detailed illustrations that are a perfect match for his imaginative storytelling. In the past, Daniel has worked as a staff writer for the...

Member of the Week – Michi Doan

Member of the Week – Michi Doan

  Art has always been a way for Michi to express her emotions. She started out drawing trees because she likes the environment and nature. Over time, she developed aspects of magic into her artwork, incorporating dreams, mystical creatures, and beings. Her goal...

Member of the Week – Ben Bensen

Member of the Week – Ben Bensen

Ben Bensen, Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles Air Force Chair (2010-present), recalls his first professional assignment as an artist. While in his senior year at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette, he painted a pocket watch for a billboard...

Member of the Week – Waiji Choo

Member of the Week – Waiji Choo

Waiji Choo is an artist from Singapore who has always been passionate about architecture, fantasy and storytelling. He currently works in Los Angeles for both the Film and Video game industry by building immersive worlds through his imagination. With his career as a...

Member of the Week: Lester Yocum

Member of the Week: Lester Yocum

I create traditional and electronic theaters of the mind, written, spoken and seen. Now retired, I worked for decades in the traditional and computerized web, gallery, print, training and presentation markets for local firms, multinational corporations and federal...

Member of the Week – Leo Monahan

Member of the Week – Leo Monahan

Leo Monahan (Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles 1988 Lifetime Achievement Awardee and President 1966, 2080 & 2081) was born in Lead, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He spent most of his childhood in the shadow of Mt. Rushmore and lived a Tom Sawyer like...

Member of the Week – Don Weller

Member of the Week – Don Weller

Don Weller drew horses and cowboys and roped calves in high school and college rodeos. After graduating from Washington State University, he sold his horses and moved to Los Angeles where he spent decades doing graphic design, and illustration (posters for the...

Member of the Week: Tyler Charlton

Member of the Week: Tyler Charlton

Tyler Charlton is an illustrator and children’s book author residing in the Virginia side of the Washington, DC metro area with his wife and three children. Originally from Santa Barbara, CA, Tyler enlisted in the US Army infantry after high school (1994-98), returned...