Casey, tell us a little about your background.
I grew up on the central coast of California in a town called Goleta, just north of Santa Barbara. My wife and I now live happily in Bozeman, Montana.
How did you originally develop an interest in art?
I’ve been told by my parents that my creative drive was evident from an extremely young age. The only thing that used to calm me down as a toddler was a pen and paper. Personally, my first artistic memories are from kindergarten and first grade. In kindergarten, I would have art shows in the driveway of my grandparent’s house. Sort of like a lemonade stand, but instead of lemonade I was selling colored pencil drawings of hawks and other birds of prey. In first grade, I remember selling graphite drawings of shark egg cases to my classmates for 50 cents. To be honest, it’s always been about art for me; there has never been another path I even considered in life.
You’ve worked in a variety of mediums, what has made digital art your go-to?
I graduated from college as an art major with an emphasis on intaglio printmaking and oil painting. After college, I moved to Seattle, Washington where reality began to set in: I no longer had the amenities of a large studio in a college art department. Since my studio was now essentially my dining room table, I went out and bought a digital painting tablet on craigslist for $50. Little did I know how naturally it would suit my artistic tendencies. My work has always been extremely line-oriented, and digital illustration has allowed me to become more efficient and more complex with how I use lines.
Did you have a mentor throughout this process?
I had several art teachers throughout
