Artists' Alley Art Track:

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 4 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 Artist!

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.

For the second consecutive year, Artist Alley and Asmadi Games are teaming up to bring the world Conventional Combat cards. Starter packs can be purchased at the Asmadi Games table in the Dealer's Room. Each participating artist will have their own cards at their tables and gamers can buy them from the artist to expand their game pack.

More information will be forthcoming for these activities after signups.

Featured Artists

Studio O.N.Y

Studio O.N.Y. is the creative force behind the web comic Otaku -no- Yen, (Geeks Without Money), updating every Monday.

• Richard

  (Writer, Story Creator)

  After a stint writing for the RPG TFOS: The Landing, Richard decided to try his hand at working alongside his wife Shannon. Richard's main focus is now the web comic "Otaku -no- Yen" (aka. Geeks Without Money). Aside from occasionally flexing his skills as a colorist, he also speaks at libraries and conventions to help educate parents and kids alike in Anime and Manga and runs numerous panels at conventions each year. Richard is also an avid gamer, and plays a mean round of Rock Band.

• Shannon

  (Artist, Character Designer, Illustrator)

  Shannon has been drawing almost her entire life, but a chance channel-surfing incident when she was 16 turned her on to Anime, and she's never been the same since. Aside from numerous freelance projects, Shannon is the artist and colorist for the web comic "Otaku -no- Yen." Self taught in the art style of Anime and Manga, Shannon has worked on numerous projects, including the anime board game Collateral Damage, "Fire and Snow" from Stone Arch Press, and of course "Otaku -no- Yen Book 1: As Seen On The Intarwebs." Shannon is also a speaker and lectures at numerous libraries, colleges, and conventions each year, educating teens on the art style she has grown to love so much."

Jayd Aït-Kaci

Jayd "Chira" Ait-Kaci was a born Texan who grew up in Paris and lives as a Canadian in Vancouver, British Columbia. And if that isn't confusing enough, just ask her where her parents are born. To simplify matters, she describes herself as a "whatever-ian."

Like most artists, Chira drew ever since she could hold a pencil. Unlike other artists, she decided at age 12 she didn't actually want to draw for a living because "starving artists make no money," and she was a fan of good food. So she decided to be a writer.

No one said she was particularly bright.

When she found out she's hopeless at prose and found out writers aren't rockstar-rich like she thought they were, she found a compromise--she can be both! So ten years later she's a starving artist anyway. But now she is okay with this.

Nowadays she secretly daydreams about being a History Major.

Chira co-produces her current webcomic venture, Sfeer Theory, with Alex Singer.

Matt Herms

No stranger to the anime/comics community, Matt Herms got his first professional break fresh out of high school in 2004 and has since done conceptual, promotional and interactive artwork for video games, magazines, conventions and toy companies as well as his longest passion: traditional dead-tree comic books, most notably as illustrator and colorist for the all-ages hit Sonic the Hedgehog. Matt's clients include Archie Comics, SoMoGa Games, Hasbro Toys, Snafu-Comics.com, Angry Viking Press, and more! He made his webcomic debut in 2006 with the runaway hit Sticky Floors, and has recently taken over the artistic chores of the long-running Snafu, written by David Stanworth.

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. This made him a perfect fit for the world of freelance illustration and manga. Striving to create a traditional, yet unique style of manga, Dave has contributed to books, magazines, businesses, and even radio stations. A veteran of webcomics, Dave is currently producing Paradox Lost, an online manga filled with space pirates, ninja hordes, crazy alien girls, and more caffeine than the FDA recommends in a lifetime. You can find Dave's comics and art at www.paradox-lost.com . Dave likes rice.