Hiya Steemit, I'm Adam. Illustrator, Tattooist, and Comic Creator

in introduceyourself •  8 years ago 

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Hello. My name is Adam Sward. At the urging of my friend Lars, I'm now on Steemit. In line with the seemingly expected introduction post, a bit about me. I've been working as a freelance illustrator since graduating from the Perpich Center for Arts Education, a Minneapolis arts high school, in 2004.

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Any actual interest I had in drawing superheros disappeared around age 15, when I stumbled on the world of indie comics. Primarily black and white, with a heaping dose of cynicism layered over multiple-genre mash-ups; I was hooked immediately. From that point until graduating from high school, it became vary apparent that drawing indie comics for a living was in many ways more competitive and difficult than aiming for the spandex-clad mainstream comic world. Enter freelance. T-shirts, concert posters, handbills, product label design, etc. Anything someone would pay me to draw was fair game.

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Over the course of the last ten years, I've had the opportunity work with bands from all over the country, writers, poets, comedians; more small projects and labors of love than I can honestly remember. The last five years was spent tattooing full time in Minneapolis.

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These days I'm back to illustrating full time, and keeping the tattooing to few days a week. Primarily focused on writing, drawing, and producing my comics. You can check out a bunch of them at my official website SwardDraws , or keep checking back here, as I'll posting some of the shorter ones in their entirety. That about wraps it up! Happy to be here and looking forward to contributing.

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Good to have you @swarddraws! I'm tempted to flag and bury your post so I remain the premier illustrator here on Steemit. Considering it.

Thank you @kommienezuspadt; nice to know my work is threatening to such esteemed company :)

nice one! very colorful art and tattoos

Thank you!

Welcome, those are some awesome looking illustrations! You've got quite a bit of talent!

Very powerfull. Thanks for sharing... upvoted and follow!

Loving the werewolf illustration, pen and ink?

Yep! All done with tech pens, primarily microns. And thank you! I don’t usually like my own work but I am fairly partial to that one.