Small town Kentucky, living in a great big artworld. I would like to thank my parents for being so supportive in the development of my artwork. Thank you much!BIOLike I said before, I was born and raised in small town Kentucky. I now reside in Lexington, KY, but I did live in Los Angeles for a stretch. Influences have come from everywhere though.

The early of my developing art work stemmed from comics. If you were wondering why I have added comic artists to my favorite artists list, this is why. Comics, for the most part, played a big role in me learning how to draw. Replication of what I found on those pages taught me a lot of control.

After comics, eigth grade or so, I moved on and determined to learn how to accurately draw people. I worked on this for a while, with much success but still lacking in reality. It wasnt until my junior year that I reapplied what I had learned along with new tools and techniques. This was the beginning, and my 2-D design class my freshman year of college was the end. Photorealism became a thing of the past for me. Before college, painting and sculpture where foreign to me. I had done one reproduction of the cover of comic book, Dead World, for a friend. After this, there was only one other attempt at painting before college. This seems strange to even me, but the pen and the pencil were my primary instruments during these years.

I was an art major at Georgetown College in Kentucky. Under the instruction of Jim McCormick and Bob Charlie Joe Wilkerson Williams, my areas of focus were primarily traditional. 2-D and 3-D design, sculpture, and painting where concentrated on heavily, but there was an introduction to Adobe and Bryce. I tried to capitalize on ever opportunity possible. I was a lab instructor for the Art Dept. a number of years. This gave me extra hours in the Mac lab to work and learn digital techniques.

I will give credit to Jim and Bob, after my initial and much needed design classes and intro classes were over I was given freedom to explore and develop my techniques and styles in each media. Critiques were given on more of a peer basis and not an instructional basis, or this is how I felt at the time. It may have been both. You never know with Bob sometimes.

That has been a number of years ago. Over the past seven years the one constant in my artwork has been painting and I still continue to paint on a regular basis. Now Ive started to relearn all of my digital processes and started to apply those to my concepts of design and composition. Ill probably never put my artwork on the back burner again, where I feel it has been for quite sometime. So expect to see a lot of me in the coming years.

Best Regards and Wishes,

Tommy