John Walker
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.
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John Walker client list includes:
USPS, Bradford Exchange, National Geographic, Warner Bros., Concordia Publishing, Tyndale House, McDonalds , Coca-Cola, Taco Bell
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