Ryan Cook

Now, altogether, much of my illustrations and artworks in general portray a very wide variety of mediums and subject matters to present, but much of my focal points relate to fictional elements, stories, and worldbuilding, and my sheer enjoyment for rendering animal characters, creatures, and especially reptilian characters as a whole (dragons, dinosaurs, reptiles, fictional creatures with the same connotations, etc.). This has been a fascination from me since I was a child, and if I were to come up with a name for my own gallery set, it could be called Anthropomorphosis. Most of my pieces are factorially evident in how many of them contain what I had mentioned above, demonstrating a long-time avenue of skills, use of colors, texture, lighting, themes, variety, geometry, elements, and more. With a supple understanding of objects, environments, and shapes, they help formulate with everything else that is present to help complete the atmosphere, and between each other, like an anthology.

Much of my pieces consist of, sci-fi, science-fantasy, adventure, and other forms of general fiction with artworks made from multiple different mediums and various thematic subject matter and creature designs. My career goal is to produce concept art and environmental art for video games, but there's also the aspect of storytelling, world-building, and the lore of living beings and their worlds. Most of the mediums I commonly use, consist of paints, colored graphite, markers, pastels, print/ink, and digital software, with the ability to diversify my styles. My preference however is usually influenced best by surreal, early baroque, impressionistic, avant-garde and theatrical styles to inspire from. Not only do I stick with what I know and enjoy, but I also try to experiment out of it whenever. The importance of integrating abilities with both 2D and 3D, in both style and actual form, are necessary especially in video game development and production for visionary content and aesthetics.