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- November 03, 2014

Here is a logo I developed for a commission that I earned on Elance.com.

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The Continued Mission of the ArtDragon - Mastering Illustration

- September 05, 2016

So as stated before... I am truly attempting to give validation to illustration as the answer to everything. I have finally started my Masters program at the Academy of Art University and here is the introduction that I presented to my instructor and classmates for my Clothed Figure Drawing class. Hello, everyone, My name is Thomas Allen Beck and I am currently enrolled at the Academy of Art University to pursue a MFA in Illustration. I am placing a focus on Editorial/Children's Books/Advertising because I feel that it is the broadest and most direct avenue to use Illustration as an answer to any design problem. I just recently graduated from the Art Institute of Seattle with a BS in Industrial Design, but my graduate project/thesis was designing an illustration consultancy that I branded as I, Story. Technically, it is what I have already been doing through Insanity-Print and Publish since my honorary discharge from the US Navy after 14 years of enlisted serv...

A New Quarter, A Chance For More Illustration...

- January 19, 2016

In my design field for my curriculum at the Art Institute of Seattle, we, as students, get minimal chance to illustrate. Less so... do we get a chance to use Fine Arts skills in general since this is more of a design trade school of sorts. I, however, push the chance to use my illustration skills whenever I get a chance, and fortunately this quarter, I am able to take a few extracurricular animation courses that afford me the opportunity to draw. Here is my study that I conducted on the human skull. I used several types of traditional media and titled the piece fittingly, "Using Mediums To Channel The Dead (Heads)"... Enjoy.