Member Spotlight

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...

Member of the Week – Jun Zhou

Member of the Week – Jun Zhou

Innovation is at the core of Zhou's work, and she strives to create art that is full of challenges and requires creative thinking rather than copying others' styles. Zhou's unique blend of traditional techniques and modern technology creates a distinct visual style...

Member of the Week – Daniella Batsheva

Member of the Week – Daniella Batsheva

Daniella Batsheva is a self-proclaimed “Illustrator with a design habit” whose aesthetic straddles the line between underground and mainstream. Her art boasts the beautiful intricate linework of traditional Victorian illustration mixed with imagery inspired by horror...

Member of the Week – Yingying “Kan” Zhou

Member of the Week – Yingying “Kan” Zhou

My name is Kan, I'm an artist working in the leading mobile game industry. I do character design and visual/illustration work for game studios in China, Japan, and Taiwan. My clients include Arena of Valor, Food Fantasy, Arknights, Girls' Frontline: Project Neural...