Steampunk: The Beginning - The Book

The show catalog is now available for sale. It features CSUF Illustrators, past and present. Pre-order it here.

Jose Rodriguez - MFA 1993

Jose Rodriguez is an award winning illustrator/artist specializing in Custom portraits. Here is an example of what Jose produced while in the graduate program back in the early 90's. Check out what he is doing now - here.

Daniel Cheng - MFA 2004

Daniel Cheng is a concept artist at Treyarch. He's worked as a concept artist on Goldeneye: Rogue Agent, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, Medal of Honor: Airborne, Steven Spielberg's Boom Blox, Boom Blox Bash Party and Call of Duty: Black Ops I and II.. Check out is website here.

Cheryl Savala - MA 1994

Images from Cheryl's graduate show - 1994. Cheryl is now the owner and creative director of Menagerie Creative.

Cheryl is still a big kid at heart with an office and home consumed with Star Wars, Nightmare Before Christmas and Maleficent toys, but with over 20 years of entertainment marketing and design experience, she's also had the pleasure to direct the creative for several incredible home entertainment campaigns including The Star Wars Saga, Titanic, X-Men, Planet of the Apes and the United Artist 90 Anniversary celebration. Cal State Fullerton is her alma mater where both a BFA and MA in Design and Illustration were earned. Each semester she returns to CSUF to mentor a new group of seniors in an upper division course specializing in entertainment design. Yoda, whom she is sometimes referred to, is proud to say that nearly 30 young apprentices have been recognized by the Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards in the Annual Student Key Art Award Competition and many of those incredible artists share their passion for great design here at Menagerie Creative. Specialties Entertainment key art, package design and consumer branding that begs to share a great story!

2012 Graduate Illustration Show

The 2012 Graduate Illustration show, "Evolving Narratives," was open in the West Gallery at CSUF from Monday, March 12 through Thursday, March 15 and featured the artwork of 16 current graduate students:

Dmitriy Astakhov

Quentin Bauer

Allison Blanding

Marvin Chow

Phillip Dimitriadis

Wendy Grieb

Andrea Harris-McGee

Laura Hoffman

Richard Kamimura

Jacob Romeo Lecuyer

Barbara Malley

Dzu Nguyen

Maggie Parr

Carla Roque

Celeste Smith

Doug TenNapel

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