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[2001-02-07 15:52:53 +0000 UTC]
"Echo Chernik Illustration"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 124; Deviations: 121; Watchers: 3334
Watching: 134; Pageviews: 150333; Comments Made: 589; Friends: 134
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: My daughtersFavorite movies: Various
Favorite TV shows: Netflix.
Favorite bands / musical artists: Vanessa Mae, 30STM, Blue October, Disturbed
Favorite books: Echo Nouveau by me and my husband, Aztec by Alan Jennings
Favorite writers: Robert Heinlein, Alan Jennings, Amy Tan, Shel Silverstein
Favorite games: Shadowrun
Favorite gaming platform: Roleplaying (pen & paper)
Tools of the Trade: Photoshop, Illustrator, Graphite, Oil, Acrylic, Gouache
Other Interests: Baking, Origami, Shooting
# About me
Hi! I have over fifteen years of experience as a professional commercial artist in the advertising field, and five years as an instructor of graphics and digital illustration at pratt institute, westchester community college, marymount manhattan and skidmore cci. I specializes in art nouveau influenced poster design, adverisements, package design and bookcovers.I am a traditionally trained artist - graduate of pratt institute, summa cum laude (presidents award for academic excellence). A traditional background in art focuses on skills such as drawing and painting as well as perspective and color theory. This allows me to translate the client's concept into whatever media best suits the job - therefore I am a very versatile artist, who is not limited by any one medium.
2017 Appearance Schedule
- Emerald City Comic Con - Seattle, 2019
- Comic Con International - San Diego, 2019
- GenCon - Indianapolis, 2019
- DragonCon - Atlanta, 2019
# Comments
Comments: 291
Love the style here, someone was nice enough to link back to your DA page from a twitter thread talking about Shadownrun coverart = )
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Your art is incredibly beautiful and elegant, with so much attention to detail. I always enjoy the beauty in your art - please never stop creating! ππ
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Thank you so much for the CORE Membership.Β
Happy holidays and have fantastic new year!
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Youβre very welcome, Echo! π Happy holidays, and enjoy your New Year too! π
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Hey there!
Nice art 
Hope to see you there some time
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Hey! Love your work! It is superb! <3!
Out of curiosity, why use Illustrator? Why not stick with Photoshop for the entire thing? Doesn't PS have much of the same tools as well?
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Sorry for the late reply. Illustrator is a dedicated Vector program with many many many more vector tools available. Photoshop is great - but can't do what I need it to do with vectors.
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I really wish I could get some of your Dessert Cthulhu's as cellphone cases right about now.
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You have a mind blowing amount of talent! Your Goddesses of Cuisine are so perfect!Β
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Your work is amazing! You deserve more attention for it! Mind blowing!Β
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I love your work...Β Β
Have a good day.
(And A llama!)
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I love your Shadowrun character. Β Awesome work.
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I just went through your gallery and I am SPEECHLESS!
All of your work is magnificent.Β I am watching you.
This is me in your gallery, only I am more amazed:
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I LOVE your work... You should totally do your own Tarot cards.. if you haven't already. That would be amazing!
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Can you tell me about your process a little bit? You are one of the graphic designers we are learning in our class lol!
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Thank you.Β
I start with a sketch, and then do a model shoot or collect reference. Then I do a drawing in graphite on vellum. From there, I scan it in and then paint in Photoshop and sometimes create elements in Illustrator and merged them in Photoshop. If I want special textures, I might find or create my own and scan them in to include in Photoshop. In my personal work, I will print out the piece as a Giclee onto canvas or art paper and then paint, varnish, and gild, on top of it.
Which class and where?
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Graphic design two. I go to school at The University of Tennessee at Martin .Few more question if you wouldn't mind me asking ?
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Good for you. Go ahead.
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Thank you so much for answering my questions !
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Greetings' ! has a great honor and pleasure to announce you that your art was selected in the "#19 Monthly Art Promoting Contest [29.03.2014]"
Congratulation ! 
PS: Feel free to submit your great art to us and join us if did not yet have the chance
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Thank you. I am honored to included on that list. Some great art!
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i enjoyed my brief browse through your gallery. Very nice work. Thanks.
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Your work is such amazing, I'm speechless, and angry too : you should have more watchers !! Yes !Β Β
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awesome work... stumbled upon it because a friend of mine told me about kickstarter.com, and the first thing on the art category was your raven project... don't really understand kickstarter, but I'll read into it.
The thing I just wanted to say is: Your work is amazing! And this is definitely a
Dirk
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Thank you so much.
Kickstarter is a fund-raising program for artists, musicians, inventors, and others. We post projects that we want to do and ask for funds. Backers contribute and receive thanks and often items as rewards. It's like the PBS pledge drive. For instance, someone who backs my project for $40 receives an archival print of Raven. For $90, they receive a larger and higher quality print. Etc.
We ask for a minimum funding goal to complete our project. If backers don't meet or exceed that goal, then we don't receive any money at all and the backers don't get charged. To accomplish this, backers only get charged after the time of the fund-raiser expires. My Raven expires on February 15.
I've found a lot of people think Kickstarter is addictive because of the rare and one of a kind projects listed there.
Good luck and thank you again for your support.
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you're welcome
and thanks so much on the info on kickstarter. I looked through several ideas, and I think that it really is a great platform. Too bad it is only for US citizens and Canada, and not for Europe. I think I have to search to find something similar here in Germany!
Good luck on your Raven project!
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I made myself a profile just to say how awesome your work is. Even so awesome as to consider some of your work as a starting point for a tattoo I'm thinking of getting. Hat off to you.
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No need to thank me darling. Like I said, your work is amazing. So much so that my boyfriend is thrilled I'm having your work on me.
Hayden.Β
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i remember u came to my middle school to talk about graphic arts. i still have your card! <3
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