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TJ Frias
Artist | Professional | Varied
United States
During the day, I am a not-so-mild mannered graphic designer for a great metropolitan healthcare education publisher in San Bruno, CA. But when I'm not doing that, I am immersed in art and creativity, the joys of fatherhood and loving my wife, The world of comic books, movies, and TV, Guinness drinking, and, whenever life permits, a little bit of self-indulgent debauchery!
Art has been my life since childhood, and I continue to serve for its place in the universe by continuing to evolve and contribute. I am in awe of the great masters and those with great potential to be. I am a student of both great impressionists and comic book illustrators. I wield a variety of media from graphite to ink to acrylic to digital to realize vision that is nurtured by the things that inspire me.
My creative influences range from the world-renowned masters to the incognito revolutionaries of the art game. Leonardo Da Vinci, Alphonse Mucha, George Perez, Jack Kirby, MC Escher, Adam Hughes, as well as other visionaries like The Watchowski Brothers, Guillermo del Toro, and Kevin Smith are among my many influences, but I am mostly influenced by the ever-changing world around me.
A cold pint of Guinness is usually the perfect end to my day.
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Current Residence: Bay Area, CA
Operating System: Mac OS X
MP3 player of choice: iPod/iPhone
Interests
Favorite visual artist
George Perez, Olivier Coipiel, Daniel Acuna, Alphonse Mucha
Favorite movies
The Godfather I and II, Star Wars Saga, The Matrix, Clerks 2
Favorite TV shows
BSG, Young Justice, Lost, the new Thundercats, Spartacus, Walking Dead
Favorite bands / musical artists
Prince
Favorite games
Dance Central
Favorite gaming platform
XBox Kinect
Tools of the Trade
Mechanical Pencil, Adobe Creative Suite
Other Interests
Comics | Movies | Debauchery