Seattleartist.com - Nils Osmar, illustrator

Nils Osmar, illustrator

Thank you for visiting my web page. This page has information about my background as an artist,
and links to examples of my artwork and illustrations, including
fine and commercial artwork, comics and graphic novels,
drawings and paintings, humorous illustration and more.

To read my bio, scroll down this page.
To view my artwork, click on the pictures or the links below:

Traditional media: pencil, charcoal & acrylics
Cartooning & humorous illustration
Photorealism & surrealism
Comics & graphic novels

Upcoming classes and workshops
All artwork © copyright Nils Osmar 2010, all rights reserved
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206/420-1309

My background

I've done artwork of one sort or another pretty much all of my life. (I remember watching Disney's animated Alice in Wonderland when I was in the second grade, drawing a picture of Alice falling down the rabbit hole, and after that I never stopped.) I've made part of my living as a visual artist (fine and commercial) since the mid-1980s.

I grew up in Alaska, but finished high school and then college in Seattle. When I got out of school, I knew I'd love to make my living as an artist but wasn't sure how to pursue it. I started out doing portraits down at the Pike Place Market in Seattle (I was one of those outdoor portrait artists for a couple of years), then moved on to doing book and magazine illustrations, drawing and writing comic books and graphic novels. (I published a line of comics and graphic novels in the late 1980s.) Later I learned to paint, and did some fine arts painting. In the 90s I discovered Photoshop, and published a line of Photoshop-generated comic books. (I also published a book of short stories in the '90s, and produced and directed some stageplays, then later moved on to screenwriting, and then filmmaking). (My films have played in both local and international festivals.)

Whether I'm working as a writer, visual artist or filmmaker, the common element is storytelling. I love storytelling, whatever the medium.

My artwork has appeared in magazines in the United States and Europe. My comics were originally self-published in the United States in the 1980s and '90s, then went on to be printed by one of Europe's largest publishers (Egmont).

I also teach classes in drawing and painting, cartooning, filmmaking, writing, acting and other subjects in Seattle.