| John Walker | jwillustration@mac.com | Bio | The Martian army attacked, mercilessly wiping out the dinosaur invaders, right there on the floor of my bedroom... and all before lunch.You’ve heard the story before. The one about the introverted kid who spends all his spare time drawing. Monsters. Aliens. Dinosaurs. Yep, that pretty much applies to me too. My father was an artist with a studio at home. As a kid, walking in there was like entering an alchemist’s lab. The acrid scent of turpentine was like perfume. Brushes, compasses, templates, all the tools of the trade fascinated me. I was hooked. I spent hours pouring over old prints of paintings by N.C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle and other illustrators from “The Golden Age”, trying to absorb their painterly styles and great story telling ability. To me their work still remains hard to beat. After graduating from the American Academy of Art I cut my teeth as a staff illustrator with a boutique design firm in Chicago, rendering all types of projects in all types of media. Eventually I went out on my own illustrating for clients like McDonalds, National Geographic, the United Sates Postal Service and Coca-cola. Most of my work now is created digitally with a Wacom tablet on an Apple computer using Photoshop and Painter. I do still paint with traditional materials, mostly for my own enjoyment, still get slightly weak at the knees when I get a whiff of turpentine and I still enjoy drawing those aliens and dinosaurs. |
| meredithdraws | meredithdraws@earthlink.net | Published Works | Meet the Wright Brothers, On Easter Sunday, My Funny Valentine, My Car Trip, Meet Robert E. Lee, Meet Thomas Jefferson, Will,God's Mighty Warrior, My First Day of School, Milo and The Greatest Trick In The World, Follow That Star,
Gigi, God's Little Princess, Do Not Wake Jake!, My Cowboy Boots, Mr. Rover Takes Over, JoJo & Winnie, Ben and Becky Get A Pet, N-O Spells NO!, The Bathwater Gang, Best Friends Wear Pink Tutus, Milo and The Flapjack Fiasco, All Tutus Should Be Pink, Milo and the Firetruck Parade, Day of the Bad Haircut, Ha! Ha! Halloween!, Stella Brite, Secret Agent Dingledorff and the Case of the Drooling Dinosaures, Christmas Every Day, My Haircut, Marty the Millionaire |
