Born in the mountains of Western North Carolina, J. Chad Fox began drawing early in life, creating comics and designing characters. Throughout high school he penciled and inked a series of small comics, which led him to apply to the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Beginning his undergraduate studies at SCAD, planning to pursue a Sequential Art degree, he later became fascinated with the Illustration Department, and how it allowed students to focus and conceptualize on an idea and present it through a single image. With a desire to capture every detail, illustration allowed him to devote more time to each individual piece of art. Pulling from an array of influences such as Frank Frazetta, Andrew Wyeth, Michael Whelan, Jack Unruh, Michael J. Deas, John Jude Palencar, and Phil Hale, Chad has developed a style of traditional techniques through water-based media.
Working in a style, which he calls “stylized realism,” Chad typically creates fantastic and conceptual illustrations as well as small town scenery. His work ethic has led him to be featured in such publications as separate issues of Illustrious, a publication of SCAD’s top illustration work, and Applied Arts Magazine, as a winner of two consecutive student art competitions. His work has won an honor prize from the Society of Korean Illustrators, an award with the Illustration West 40, sponsored by the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, and has been featured twice in Savannah's May Poetter Gallery. Recently his work has exibited at The Society of Illustrators in New York as part of the RSVP's "Dreams" competition. With the majority of recent works created in acrylics, Chad focuses his attention primarilly on book illustration, portraiture,
and gallery work. |
