John Hom

I’ve been in the biz since ’86 and my main concentration is on the kids entertainment market. Whether it’s developing ideas for new characters, existing licensed characters or even designing packaging or products, I bring a passion to my work. I graduated from Art Center College of Design, with Great Distinction. Since then, I formed an illustration/design studio, creating illustrations and designs for dvd/video covers, movie posters, point of purchase displays, computer game covers, children books and other kids related materials. My illustrations have been recognized by Society of Illustrators, New York Gold Medal in Advertising , Communication Arts and American Illustration Annuals and Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles shows. My goal is to give my clients the highest quality of work, meet their deadlines and work within their budgets. Please give me a call or send me an email if you like what you see.

Title: JOHNHOM_BlackPanther_50thanniv_s
Caption: Marvel Black Panther
Description: San Diego Comic-Con
Title: AT Atlantis game_s
Caption: Cartoon Network
Description: Adventure Time Atlantis game board
Title: LionZord_s
Caption: Saban
Description: LionZord toy
Title: sorry cover_s
Caption: Hasbro
Description: Package artwork for the Sorry Disney board game
Title: Crispix_RiceKrispies_halloween_s
Caption: Kellogg's
Description: Halloween ad
Title: ScoobyDo_ChillOut_s
Caption: Warner Bros
Description: Scooby-Do DVD package art
Title: disney xmas pop_s
Caption: Disney
Description: Holiday program
Title: R&M_Bedroom_CarlsJr_s
Caption: Cartoon Network
Description: Rick and Morty Carl's Jr
Title: Mulan_s
Caption: Disney
Description: Mulan soundtrack
Title: pinkiecooper_rays_s
Caption: The Bridge Direct
Description: Pinkie Cooper package art
Title: CC_POS_barbiev2_o
Caption: Mattel
Description: Barbie point of purchase
Title: Spectrobes_s
Caption: Disney Interactive Studios
Description: Spectrobes print ad

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www.johnhomstudio.com
johnhomstudio@gmail.com
805-374-9634

Advertising, Album / CD Covers, Animation, Automotive, Book Covers, Book Illustration, Cartooning, Childrens Books, Digital, Movie Art, Portraits, Product Illustration

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Martin French

My professional practice has been focused on taking symbols from daily life and reworking them into images potent enough to strike passing audiences with an experience of aesthetic and intellectual encounter. I’ve been especially fascinated by how an individual artist’s unique vision, when developed and honed, can be at once exclusively personal and yet widely transcendent. This fascination with the expressive and communal paradox inherent in artistic development is what led me away from a career as a design director to start my own illustration and design practice. Its contours and questions still energize my development and practice as a visual communicator.

Thankfully, my disciplinary fascination happens to overlap with what has turned out to be vital professional practice—namely the need for the modern visual communicator to find ways of distinguishing their images in a hyper-saturated visual market. That quest isn’t, of course, something that ends with a degree or an award. On the contrary, its ongoing, evolving challenges form a large portion of what we refer to as professional practice. How does a visual communicator remain savvy and able to read culture? How does a visual communicator retain a vision robust enough to start or redirect zeitgeists rather than being conformed to them? As I engage with these tensions I’d like to think my images could have worked in 1909, or again in 2099—the point being that their appeal depends not on tapping the hype of contemporary culture, but, almost the reverse, on stripping away the hype to offer up an image conveying a timeless appeal.

My move to Portland in 2006 motivated me to explore and apply these ideas through projects aimed at connecting with the city, most notably, the formation of the Illustration Department at The Pacific Northwest College of Art. My hope for student development in and through cultural engagement is the pedagogical extension of my ambition for my own work. I am seeking to deepen the unity between my own professional practice, artistic voice, and cultural involvement. I am energized by seeking greater rigor, expression, risk-taking, and clarity in my work. Naturally, my general teaching philosophy reflects that kind of ethos: I want students to experience my classroom as a laboratory where processes, ideas, and historical/cultural backdrops are live-wires, highly-charged and dynamic elements through which we can better understand, better share, and better tell, our own stories. What’s more—and this is core to my overarching goal for myself and my students—I want the classroom to be a place where we learn how to press ever deeper into that powerful personal/communal paradox that a well-developed vision and a highly-sensitive mind can come together and create.

Title: Create 1
Title: Arab Spring
Title: Calin Matei Street Concert 1
Title: Exile Poster Project / Mass Incarceration
Title: Monk100
Title: Harlem Swing 1
Title: Harlem Swing 2
Title: Masked Marvel
Title: Holy Blues
Title: Wrestling with God
Title: March Madness
Title: Calin Matei Street Concert 2

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Leon Lee

My work explores the beauty of different settings and locations. Always beginning with an idea or story before creating my illustrations, I draw a lot of inspiration from my experiences while growing up, as well as various travel adventures.

Title: Homecoming
Title: The Cold Wintry Night
Title: Egypt Street
Title: The Last Amur
Title: Quiet Dreams
Title: Angie
Title: Leon-Lee_Venom
Title: 640x480

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Lidan Chen

I enjoy reading picture books and that is why I become an illustrator. I like drawing with computer because it allows me to make changes whenever I want.

Title: when parents have a favorite child
Title: The selfish giant
Title: The nightingale and the rose
Title: cover-parenting
Title: Marshmallow experinment
Title: jealousy
Title: the dream
Title: Pan
Title: The fox
Title: working parents
Title: single mom
Title: dad's tear