MEET THE UCREATE DAY ARTISTS!
CHRIS KOEHLER
Chris Koehler is an award-winning artist and illustrator working out of San Francisco.
His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Popular Science as well as international ad campaigns, packaging, and products. His illustrations have been recognized by Communication Arts, Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Spectrum, and 3x3. Save & Exit
In addition to being a freelance brush for hire, Chris is the artist behind the Z2 published comic “Legend.” He teaches in the Illustration and MFA in Comics Programs at California College of the Arts and co-owns Sketchpad Gallery in San Francisco. He can often be found hunched over a sketchbook in a coffee shop.
Chris will be demonstrating the new Pentel Mini Brush Tip Sign Pens.
Select your favorite social media platform and follow Chris at…
- Facebook– com/ckoehlerart
- Tumblr– tumblr.com
- Twitter– @ckoehlerart
- Instagram- @ckoehlerart
- Pinterest– com/ckoehlerart
- Behance– net/chriskoehler
MIGUEL MACHUCHA
Miguel Machuca likes working in charcoal because it’s like ash—like what his body will one day become. His words, like his work, have a macabre sensibility, but he speaks with a warm smile and an optimistic tone. Of his drawings, he says, “They’re poems. You see images. I see words. They tell me their stories and what their titles should be.”
Machuca lives up to the mythos of the artist as a wellspring of impulses, of discrete risks, only partially calculated. Circumstances have compelled him to be uniquely aware of the body and its fragility. He relays the details of his father’s death by car accident and his own bout with cancer. Of the diagnosis he says, “Well, I wanted the darkness. Here it is…I embraced it, and I started seeing life positively. My old self died. My old ideas and beliefs died with it…and I started seeing things that I never saw, that I never paid attention to.”
For him, art and life are bound up and indistinguishable from each other. “Art is life itself,” he says, “and life is constantly expanding.
BARON ENGEL
Baron Engel has been a free-lance illustrator since the late 1980s. He’s
done illustration work for books, magazines and comics; along concept
design ranging from video games to preproduction for film and
television. He’s been involved in various fandoms since 1989.
Today Baron along with his wife run a freelance art company called
Smudgemarks and Engelwerks. His current interests include history,
anime, aviation, 5th Edition D&D, military history, motor vehicles,
cooking, good coffee, fine spirits, and world-building.
Store: https://www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BaronEngel?ty=h
Deviant Art: http://baron-engel.deviantart.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BaronEngel
Picarto: https://picarto.tv/baronengel
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/baron.engel.9