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IamSam
I am a self taught traditional artist/painter, illustrator, and aspiring freelance graphic artist/designer. Through the 80's and 90's, in addition to my full time job, I freelanced as commercial illustrator. Back then we did things the hard way, CS-10 illustration board, Olympos airbrushes, hand held masking, mailing tubes, drum scanners, and annoying art directors with low budgets.
Around 1996 I began to focus more on my fine art and spent many years working the show and competition circuit. I also maintained a website devoted to custom artwork, mainly human and pet portraiture. I closed my website in 2004 after some copyright infringement on my artwork. At that time I chose to keep my fine art work off the web. I also continued to work part time in graphic and website design
In 2010, at the advice of a great and long time friend and mentor, I gave up on my traditional painting/illustration methods for digital and I began my love affair with Photoshop (CS5-CS6) and the rest has been history. I joined PSG in 2012.
I'm semi-retired from working as a Surgical First Assistant and I still work three days a week. In my spare time I devote myself to helping here on PSG and working as a freelance graphic artist/designer/illustrator for a local agency where my work is mostly limited to local business multimedia design for advertising, typography, packaging, labels, flyers, posters, brochures, guides, reports, etc.
Around 1996 I began to focus more on my fine art and spent many years working the show and competition circuit. I also maintained a website devoted to custom artwork, mainly human and pet portraiture. I closed my website in 2004 after some copyright infringement on my artwork. At that time I chose to keep my fine art work off the web. I also continued to work part time in graphic and website design
In 2010, at the advice of a great and long time friend and mentor, I gave up on my traditional painting/illustration methods for digital and I began my love affair with Photoshop (CS5-CS6) and the rest has been history. I joined PSG in 2012.
I'm semi-retired from working as a Surgical First Assistant and I still work three days a week. In my spare time I devote myself to helping here on PSG and working as a freelance graphic artist/designer/illustrator for a local agency where my work is mostly limited to local business multimedia design for advertising, typography, packaging, labels, flyers, posters, brochures, guides, reports, etc.
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