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ELISA CHONG

Lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
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Elisa Chong was born in South-America, in Cartagena, Colombia. The name One of her biggest wishes is to be able to cheer people up with her artwork.
of this city means ‘mermaid’s song’ in the original language of the city. For That is the reason why she makes her artwork very cheerful. Her favorite media
over fourteen years, this exotic city has inspired her to draw mermaids. She are: pencil, pen and ink, watercolors, gouache and bristol board. She believes
showed a talent for drawing and creating art at the young age of five. After that one should never stop learning new skills and techniques, in art and in
being introduced to art and animation, she knew it in her heart that she would life. She is currently working as a professional concept artist and character
love to become an artist and animator when she grew up. She currently lives designer for videogames, comic books and animations. She believes that art
in Arizona, in the United States. She learned to create art from many years of is something that is beautifully created, with a lot of love and care, that is
practice, and from reading many instructional art books. She studied art in filled with emotions, and that it expresses those feelings beautifully to all the
college, and obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer animation. She has an people who observe and appreciate her art. She likes to smile at the world
overactive imagination. She loves to celebrate life, love and eace, by creating with her art, and hopes the world will smile back too. Her art is collected all
artwork that is very colorful, imaginative, inspirational, cheerful and intriguing. over the world, by many wonderful and supportive fans.

 SOFIANIME, 2004 DIRECT PHOTOGRAPY.
MY GUARDIAN ANGEL ALEXXIA, SMILING, 2005 CG (COMPUTER GRAPHIC) ON PAPER. 
MARCUS AND JADE, 2006 DCG (COMPUTER GRAPHIC) ON PAPER. 

This is my guardian
a n g e l A l ex x i a ,
smiling. The pencils
w e re c re a t e d
a few years ago
and I finally have
a chance to cg
the image. This
was a quick cg, I
don’t usually have
enough time to
sit in front of the
computer and cg
for hours, but this
was a fun practice
of using my wacom
tablet, Photoshop
and a mix of filters
and layer effects. I
think I went a little
overboard with the
colors.

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