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My Background

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My Background

Remember that kid in the back of the class that was forever doodling and rarely paying attention? That was me. I was never that interested in school unless the assignment allowed us to draw something. Then I was all over it.

Then I became a teenager. My eye had become more critical and my drawings almost never were as good as I wanted th

Then I became a teenager. My eye had become more critical and my drawings almost never were as good as I wanted them to be. Thus, most of my teenage artwork ended up crumpled into balls of paper.

Then I joined the military. In my down time I started drawing more. I was trying to learn from a book. Though, a book will only get you so far. After all, when you run into a problem, you can't ask the book for help.

Thus, once my enlistment was over, I started taking classes at a junior college and later at a four-year school.

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I have worked with just about everything.

With all of the classes I took, I have a whole cabinet full of art supples that I haven't used in years. Most were bought because they were on the materials list of a class I was taking. Many were hardly used. A few were never used at all.

What I do use (when I'm working traditionally) are pen and

I have worked with just about everything.

What I do use (when I'm working traditionally) are pen and ink, pencils, and colored pencils.

I also find myself doing ever more work on the computer. Yes, it is faster and easier to edit. However, there is something about traditional media that took a hold of me and will never completely let go.

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My Inspiration

As a child, my biggest inspiration was my German grandmother. Before I learned to write, she drew simple pictures and sent them to me via the mail. I would then draw a picture and send it as a reply.

Tom Hatten hosted a cartoon show called Popeye and Friends on KTLA. During it Tom would take a simple viewer-submitted squiggle and turn it i

As a child, my biggest inspiration was my German grandmother. Before I learned to write, she drew simple pictures and sent them to me via the mail. I would then draw a picture and send it as a reply.

Tom Hatten hosted a cartoon show called Popeye and Friends on KTLA. During it Tom would take a simple viewer-submitted squiggle and turn it into a cartoon drawing. That taught me more about problem solving than any college course ever did.

Walter Foster art books on cartooning were another inspiration. As a child I spent hours trying to reproduce the characters in those books.

Bussi Bär is a German-language monthly magazine for young children. While almost nobody reading this will know of it, I have to mention it as I was in love with the illustrations. I'd look at them for hours.

Apropos German media, I was obsessed with the Mainzelmännchen. They are short (just a few seconds each) cartoons that ran between the commercials in the evening on German TV station ZDF. If my grandfather was watching TV and called out that they were on, I'd come sprinting into the room just as quickly as my little legs could get me there.

Finally, I'd like to that two Disney artists from whom I took community college courses, Carl Glassford and Tom Shannon.

I took every class Carl taught, some twice.

Tom has The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and many more on his resume. He is a brilliant artist (and great guy) with the most impressive portfolio I've ever seen. All of my other instructors combined didn't teach me as much as Carl and Tom did.

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