Welcome!

If you are new to Art Track, you may be wondering "What is Art Track?"

Art Track is the name of all the GREAT programming that we do in Artist's Alley.

Each year we select artists to spotlight. Each Featured Artist will host art themed panels where you can benefit from their knowledge and experience on topics ranging from getting published to colorization and more.... Look below to check out our Featured Artists!

For the past few years Artist's Alley has proudly carried out Artist's Alley Trading Cards, an activity for artists to trade samples of their art in a business card sized 3.5 in x 2 in format with each other. This activity is limited to artists.

There are more new and upcoming events in the works besides this that may allow different levels of participation for both artists and attendees.

Featured Artists

Gina Biggs

Gina Biggs is a freelance artist and comic creator. She has beencreating comics for over fourteen years. She runs StrawberryComics.com, an all-female group of creators banding together to help promote women in the comic industry as well as the neglected and often overlooked genre of love and romance in the medium. She also runs FilthyFigments.com which features erotic comics by a lineup of all-women creators.

Gina's current work is the romantic webcomic series, Red String. The series has been running since 2003 and the first three volumes are published by Dark Horse Comics. She also collaborates on Erstwhile, a series adapting the lesser know Grimm's fairytales into comic form.

http://www.redstringcomic.com/

Jennifer Doyle

Jennifer Doyle (aka theyoungdoyler) is an aspiring artist who is currently studying History at Macalester College. When there aren't essays to be written, Jenn writes and draws the webcomic, Knights-Errant. Though Knights-Errant isn't strictly historical, it attempts to realistically address sexual and religious politics from Renaissance Europe and the Arab World in a darkly comedic way.

Knights-Errant link: http://knights-errant.smackjeeves.com

Emily Gaskill

Emily H.W. Gaskill is a graduate from UC Davis with a BA in Art Studio who spent the ten years after graduation doing very little art. She has spent her more recent time attempting to find her artistic muse and her abilities again, and is happy to say she feels that she is on the road back to creativity. She is the Artist/Writer for the Web Comic "The Wand and The Sword" which can be found at http://wandandsword.com/ and she is known as both dragondoodle and girl-n-herhorse on DeviantArt

Lora Innes

Lora Innes began her critically acclaimed historical fiction work, The Dreamer, as a webcomic in 2007 and it quickly grew a large, devoted following online. IDW Publishing has released two graphic novel collections of celebrated webcomic. The Dreamer has been nominated for three Harvey Awards: Best New Series, Best New Talent (Lora Innes), and Best Cover Artist (Jenny Frison). It was also nominated in the 2010 Cybils Awards and won the 2009 S.P.A.C.E. Prize.

The Dreamer is the story of 17-year-old high schooler Beatrice Whaley. Every night when she falls asleep, she wakes up in the middle of the Revolutionary War. Adventure, Romance, War--history has never felt so alive! http://www.thedreamercomic.com

Lora Innes is currently working on writing a graphic novel trilogy about the Civil War for an upcoming television event, To Appomattox. http://www.toappomattox.com/Home.html

Lora Innes also co-hosts the Paper Wings podcast with Disney Visual Development artist, Chris Oatley. Learn to make & monetize your creator-owned comics & graphic novels! Right now, visual storytellers have unprecedented opportunities to connect directly to an audience, circumvent traditional distribution methods and create high quality images on a budget. Paper Wings is here to show you how. http://www.paperwingspodcast.com

Kevin Kincheloe

Kevin Kincheloe is as hard to describe as his name is to pronounce. An unusual combination of nature hippie, fantasy artist, and computer nerd... One day you might spot him wandering barefoot in the woods of the midwest, then the next day he's rocking out on music and PC games. He's 100% artist in all areas of his life, though, and has been since before he could talk. His drawing style is something that occurred naturally when he decided not to have a "style" and just draw whatever came out of his pencil. Elements of anime, fantasy, cartoon, and who knows what else have all smelted together into something he likes to call his own.

A character creator and world builder at heart, Kevin's brain is packed full of strange lands and interesting people, some of which have been growing in his mind for over ten years, with new faces popping up all time. His creations make their way into the real world in the form of drawings, stories, comics, digital paintings, and occasionally 3D animation. A jack of all trades, who will never call himself a master of anything, for there is always room to improve.

Dave Lister

Some say that Dave Lister is made of Legos. This is false. Composed mostly of coffee, Dave has learned to work without unnecessary things like sleep (though this may also be speculation, as he is often observed face-down on his laptop). Dave got his roots in the industry by accidentally creating the webcomic, Paradox Lost in early 2000. Though it was intended simply to be a means for Dave to polish his art and writing skills, its success led to the founding of Studio Nasu. Since then, Dave has written, illustrated, and composed music for comics, magazines, retailers, video games, children's books, websites, radio stations, and one very small, mechanical narwhal (which may have resulted in saving the world from destruction at the hands of zombie guppies.)

Come visit the Studio Nasu table to see Dave and some his latest projects, including Conception Complex, an amazing new Japanese band whose US CD release, Liberation Key is produced by Studio Nasu. Also check out the newest video game releases, Protostar and Sweet Adventure, playable right at the table! Of course, you'll want to bring your DS or 3DS with you to play Starbuster, a 3D shooter developed in collaboration with Dragon's Den Unlimited (not to mention for all the shiny Pokemon Dave likes to give away, though he doesn't make Pokemon, he only catches them). In addition to all this, Dave has lots of art, cool original video game swag, music, and other power-ups. Dave likes rice.

www.studionasu.com
www.paradox-lost.com
www.facebook.com/studionasu
@studionasu on twitter

Kel McDonald

Kel is a comic book artist who mostly sits at her drawing table working because the outside world is scary. She's been doing Sorcery 101 for the past 6 years.

Michelle Pinard

Michelle Pinard is the creator of MKT Productions, a New England based manga studio that is known for original works that focus on gender identity. Using the manga medium to create identifiable and compelling transgender characters, she has advanced her studio's mission to promote understanding of transgender issues. Since 2005, she has been touring the anime, comic, and LGBT convention circuit with her hit debut title, Chaotic Kiss. CK is a romantic-comedy-drama all about Sydney, a transgender girl who loves anime, fashion, and works at a maid cafe in Harvard Square. MKT Productions will release the third book of this series at Anime Boston. Many of her readers have remarked on how her comics have changed the way they think about gender in positive and intriguing ways. An introduction to the series as well as artwork, updates, and more is available at www.chaotickiss.com

David White

David White is a Western Massachusetts based artist who specializes in designing giant robots, or mecha, for video games and books. David has contributed concept art to over 15 games including Transformers: War for Cybertron, Mechwarrior 4: Black Knight, and Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries. He has also contributed artwork to many popular "how to draw" books Such as Anime Mania, Mecha Mania, Manga Mania: Video Games, 50 Fantasy Vehicles to Draw and Paint, and 50 Robots to Draw and Paint. Battletech fans may recognize David's mecha designs from books such as Technical Readout: 3085 and Technical Readout: Prototypes. When not drawing robots, David illustrates children's books for Scholastic and comics for LEGO Magazine.

David White Illustration: www.mechazone.com

Julie Wright

Julie Wright is a recent graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design. She hit the ground running, picking up work as a colorist for both independent studios and well-known publishers. Each week she adds her own touch to the popular webcomic "The Dreamer" by Lora Innes, also in print through IDW. Julie also has two personal comic projects which will debut online at the beginning of next year. Sterblichkeit (Mortality) is a WWII graphic novel which explores the choices its cast of characters make and the consequences that ensue. She takes a notably different direction with her second project, Iannua, a fantasy piece in a Victorian setting where magic is commonplace and technology is considered aberrant.

When she isn't at her computer, Julie travels around the globe attending Comic Book and Anime Conventions. She is also an avid cosplayer, having an entire closet at home dedicated to past and present projects.

Visit her websites at http://oneoftwo.deviantart.com and http://ianuae.deviantart.com/ for more from Julie!