Ever since I can remember, I've been doodling and re-inventing characters that I admired as a kid. I believe in third grade, I'd drawn, as best as I could, some version of Voltron/Thundercats/Transfromers...  unlike anything my friends had seen.

 

The years that followed, I realized that people liked the artist in me. Loved watching me draw. It didn't exactly make me very popular with the girls, but all the same I made friends high and low and before I knew I was getting paid to illustrate for local papers and painting murals at comic shops and video game stores.

 

In high school, I was known as "Superman", not for my ability to outrun trains or my daily use of X-Ray vision, but for my geeky love of the shirts I wore, (my undying love of the comic book genre). Ask anyone, they'll tell you. I was somewhere, madly scribbling away at a sketch pad in hopes of becoming the next McFarlane! (although not as great as he was) Being an artist helped me get through the toughest of times.

 

I graduated with the "Hanely" award for best art student, later on studying fashion illustration at FIT in NYC where I've lived for the better part of my life. Fast forward a few decades, I'm back at it again, after taking some time off hitting the lead.

 

As a freelance, multi-media artist, I can honestly say I'm heavily inspired by comic books, cartoons, anime, video games, TV shows, movies, music and really, anything that's either popular or an unsung hero in my eyes. My son, Alexandre continues to give me endless ideas that become hard-chiseled pieces.

 

Throughout the years, I have experimented with different techniques & mediums. Still doing it old school, I solely use pencils, then pen & ink my illustrations, later photoshopping them to bring out their utmost comical attributes. Much of my recent work is sold on t-shirts, posters, stickers and wherever art makes people happy!

 

Thanks for dropping by!

 

-Lou