Steve Ellis
Overview
Award-winning entertainment illustrator with 14 years of experience in the comics, film, CCG, RPG, toy and games industries.
Creator of several published works for major publishing houses.
Accomplished Illustration Professor at Syracuse University's Visual and Performing Arts College.
Skills
- Excellent traditional art skills including a strong grasp of anatomy, composition/visual design, color theory, perspective, lighting, environment, architecture, creature/character, costume and graphic design. Specific skills include:
- Excellent traditional drawing and painting skills
- Strong imagination and extensive experience brainstorming ideas with others
- Accomplished storyteller with strong storyboarding and writing skills
- Fluent in Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel Painter with experience teaching these at the university level.
- Curriculum development and coursework planning for college and graduate level art classes
- Excellent teaching and communications skills
Work Experience
Freelance Illustrations and Comic Art
Clients include: Random House Publishing, Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, Lucas Films, Darkhorse Comics, Mattel, Blizzard Entertainment, 4Kids Entertainment, Upper Deck, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Whitewolf Games, Paizo Publishing, Alderac Entertainment Group, Sabertooth Games, Games Workshop, Taratoy, Privateer Press, Malibu Comics, Valiant Comics, Moonstone Books, Rogue Entertainment, Image Comics, Bullseye Tattoos, Scholastic Books, DorosMotion and more... Full credits and samples are available upon request.
Selected Projects/ Highlights
High Moon: Online Graphic Novel Series 2007
Co-creator/Artist… Zuda.com/DC Comics Publishers
The Silencers: Black Kiss graphic Novel/Comics series 2004-2006
Co-writer/Artist… Moonstone Books/Image Comics publishers
Optioned for Major Motion Picture
Stuperpowers: Role Playing Game 2000
Co-Writer,Artist… Wingnut games Publisher
Tranquility graphic Novel/Comics series 1998
Co-Writer,Artist… DreamSmith Books Publishers
Confessions of a Teenage Vampire : Graphic Novel Series 1999
Co-Creator, Artist… Scholastic Books Publisher
Freelance Concept Artist
Hasbro Toys, Jezebelle (DC Comics/Wildstorm), Crimson Dynamo (Marvel Comics)
Story Boarding
Various commercial, comics and film projects
Art Director
Freelance Art Director /Packager for Scholastic Educational Books division responsible for producing graphic novels for Libraries. Sourced artists, assigned artwork, handled scheduling, designed workflow, edited or corrected all artwork to publishers' pedagogical standards.
Teaching
During the course of three years teaching at Syracuse University's School of Art, my reputation has grown as a natural and gifted teacher such that my classes are regularly over-enrolled and unenrolled students frequently drop in to attend lectures. The illustration department's faith in my abilities were such that I was able redesign the structure of the drawing class to reflect a more traditional atelier-style model.
Life Drawing/Anatomy 2003 to present
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Digital Illustration Seminar for Masters Level Students 2006
Syracuse University's Illustration Masters Program, Syracuse, NY
Digital Illustration 2003 to present
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Illustration Concepts- Sequential Art 2004
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Seminars
Spoken at seminars and performed demonstrations for audiences ranging from elementary school kids to professional Artists. Venues include Comic- Con International: San Diego and Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art NYC
Shows/Galleries/ Awards
- Galerie d'art Yves Laroche: Street Camp Juried Show 2006
- Society of Illustrators Gallery One Man show NY, NY 2007
- Included in SPECTRUM: The Years Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Art, Juried Competition 1999, 2007
- Best in Show: Gen Con Art Show 2005
- MOCCA -Museum Show - "Silencers: Mob Ball" at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art New York, NY 2003
- Society of Illustrators Members Open 2004-2005
Professional Organizations
- Society of Illustrators Member since 2000
- Curator for Society Member's Gallery
Education
- Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. College of Visual and Performing Arts, BFA
- Illustration, Summa Cum Laude, May 1993.
- Spring Street Art studio, informal life drawing classes
- School of Visual Arts, NYC graduate Painting Class and Cartooning Classes.
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