CP Smith

CP Smith is a reclusive artist of comic books, pin-ups, and other action fantasy related media. Raised in the rough neighborhood of Oak Park in Sacramento California, he made the acquaintance of Tomm Coker (who worked at a comic store with his best friend and owner of the store) who mentored and encouraged CP in his art. He visited the local comic store weekly after church, often in his Sunday best, which caught the comic store owner's interest. Before long CP had been introduced to many of the other regulars to the store and artists who frequented the store (including artists like Melvin Rubi). Together with a small clique of friends, they studied fine art and dynamic figure drawing, inspiring each other, until in their late teens CP started to work closely with Tomm on main-stream books often doing his finishes or ghosting his art on a panel here and there while the other boys worked on personal projects or simply watched TV. CP became seriously focused on becoming a comic book artist. He doesn't really remember wanting to do anything else.

CP took an interest in Japanese comic book illustrators detail and techniques and focused his mind on a strict discipline of completing works in a respectable amount of time and applying many of the techniques he had observed and practiced. He believed in doing as much work as possible himself to achieve the desired effect in seeing his works published so he began inking and would've taken on more work if they let him. He eventually moved to southern California and aside from doing comics for Wildstorm, he also worked for a time with Joe Phillips in San Diego as an animator and was involved in several mature content, comic-themed, flash videos. Those were his first steps toward broadening his horizons into animation. During that time in his life, CP was exposed to several top notch and well-known comic book artists only increasing his abilities respectively and adding a tangible depth to his involvement in the comic book industry.

CP Smith is a hard person to track and can be very elusive to questions about anything, including his name (What the CP Stands for) and social life. Generally he is a very outgoing and friendly person who is straight-forward with his opinions and very strange tastes. while he surrounds himself with technology for his work, and is highly skilled in even animation, he is not interested in social media, chatting, or blogging, thus hiding himself completely from the eyes of prying persons. In fact this might be, the absolute, most you can find out about him by running his name through google. besides an interview or two.

Earlier this year, CP's artwork was featured in a cellphone commercial ( Samsung Behold II). while the commercial clearly features his artwork, his techniques for inspiration, and his penchant for photo reference, the video does not feature CP Smith as "the artist" in the video.

CP Smith currently draws for a video game company located in downtown Sacramento, CA called KlickNation.

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