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CHRISTOPHER SanDiego MENDOZA
Born 3-11-84 Home-Town: Long Island City, NY
Age: 17
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I HAVE BEEN DRAWING FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER. I REMEMBER DRAWING "FRED FLIINSTONE" AND "SONIC THE HEDGEHOG". MY VERY FIRST SKETCHBOOK WAS SOMETHING I'M REALLY PROUD OF. ALTHOUGH I DON'T HAVE IT ANYMORE, I REMEMBER DRAWING LOTS AND LOTS OF DIFFERENT CARTOON CARACTERS, LIKE "POPEYE", "BUGS BUNNY", AND MORE! I "THINK" IT REALLY HELPED MY DISCOVER MY "ARTISTIC SIDE". I NEVER USED TO COLOR MY ART WORKS, AND I PREFERED SKETCHING. BUT EVER SINCE I WAS INTRODUCED TO "PRISMA MARKERS", I'VE BEEN TRYING OUT NEW TECHNIQUES WITH MY ART WORKS. I HAVE BEEN COLORING QUITE WELL AND MAKING GREAT ILLUSTRATIONS WITHIN MY FIRST WEEK OF USING "PRISMA", SUCH AS MY "DBZ" ILLUSTRATIONS IN MY "GALLERY".
I STARTED DRAWING COMICBOOKS BACK WHEN I WAS NINE. THEY WEREN'T GREAT, BUT I THOUGHT THEY WERE GOOD, AND SOME THAT I SHOWED TO SAID THE SAME. I USED REGULAR MARKERS THAT ONE OF MY SISTERS GAVE ME. MY OLD STORY WAS NAME "NYC FIGHTERS", HEY...I WAS NINE! SO BEFORE, I WAS JUST DOING IT FOR FUN. I DID ABOUT TWO STORIES, WHICH THE SECOND ONE GOT TOTALLY DESTROYED IN THE RAIN. AFTER THAT I LOST INTEREST. AS I MAKE MY WAY THROUGH JUNIOR HIGH. I TRIED TO START NEW STORIES, I STILL HAVE SOME SKETCHES. BUT THEY WE'RE NOT SO GREAT. SO BASICALLY, MY ENTIRE THREE YEARS IN JUNIOR HIGH, I KEPT A LITTLE THREE RING BINDER AS A PORTFOLIO THAT HAD ABOUT 50 PIECES IN THEM. BUT EVERYTIME I SHOW SOME NEW WORKS TO SOME OF MY GIRL CLASSMATES, THEY ASK ME IF THEY CAN HAVE IT. ME BEING NOT ABLE TO SAY "NO" TO PRETTY GIRLS, GIVE THEM WHAT EVER THEY LIKED IN THAT BOOK. FINALLY, I ENTERED THE HIGH SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN. IN THIS SCHOOL, I MADE FRIENDS WITH A LOT OF TALENTED KIDS. HERE I LEARNED NOT TOO MUCH, BUT ENOUGH TO MAKE ME WANT TO MAKE COMIC BOOKS, ONCE AGAIN.
SOME OF MY FAVORITE COMICBOOK TITLES ARE "ARIA", "WITCHBLADE" AND ANY OTHER "IMAGE" TITLES. I PREFER TO DRAW WITH PROPORTION WHICH I'M STILL LEARING EVEN NOW. I RATHER DRAW MORE REALISTIC NOT LIKE "ANIME", ALTHOUGH ANIME "IS" COOL. I DREW MY FIRST COMICBOOK IN THE FIRST GRADE, IT CAME OUT TO ABOUT 20+ PAGES BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT IS NOW. MY SECOND ONE WAS QUITE BETTER THAN THE LAST. BUT AFTER A MONTH OR SO, I FORGOT IT ON THE TERRACE AND RAIN POURED, "OUCH".
Schools:
-Holy Spirit Academy
1991-1996
-R.F. Wagner M.S. 167
1996-1999
-High School of Art and Design
1999-current
Classes Taken:
-Portfolio/Art Classes "The Metropolitant Museum of Art"
1997,1998
-Scholarship guitar class "92st Y Manhattan"
1999-current
Awards:
-3rd place winner, 4th grade art contest.
summer 1994
-Certificate of Excellence in Animation
spring 1997
-Certificate of Promotion, Mastery and Perfection BOOK 1 of Alfred's Basic Guitar Method
spring 2001
-Maxpages' April Winner in Art Category
april 2001
Works published:
-R.F. Wagner M.S. 167, "Class Picture, Senior Year Book"
Spring 1999
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