Bio:

     Born in Logan Utah on December 16^th 1992, then lived in California briefly and afterwards moved to Washington State where I lived for the majority of my childhood.  Then he moved here to Utah in 2007 where he has lived for about the past 8 years.

He has loved drawing since early childhood and has developed that skill as well as others throughout his life.  He attended High school at Fremont high where He graduated in May of 2011, he took art classes all through high school.  He is now currently studying at Snow College where he is working towards an associates of science and art and expects to graduate in the spring of 2016.  He has exhibited in a few shows such as the Springville art show (2011), “Artists in progress” Snow College student art show, as well as a few smaller shows through his high school experience.  He has also submitted an add design to the “Design an ad” competition for Mckay-dee intermountain hospital in 2011.

Besides art and drawing, he has a significant interest in history, he loves reading about history.  He enjoys nature and the outdoors.  After school He hopes to go into a career of illustration or concept art.

Artist Statement:

     Since childhood He has loved drawing creatures, characters, and things of that nature.  He has always had a love for history, and has loved drawing warriors from history.  He primarily draws things straight from imagination with at least some basis on reality.  More recently he is working in digital painting and drawing.  Most of the characters that he create are for the intent to inform the purpose and place of a character.  He hopes to go on to create character and creature concepts for movies or video games, or to become a freelance illustrator.

The majority of the time he spends drawing is coming up with new ideas for a creature or a character, or just doodling some warrior from antiquity.  A big part of that process is imagining the story or background of a character or creature.  Where does he/she/it live?  What does it do?  And why?  This stems from his love of history and stories and crosses over with a very visual mind to produce something that could be used as a viable character.  Just take a look at his sketch book, it is literally full of random warriors, creatures, and monsters drawn free hand out of his imagination.

Jacob Jones has a good way to go in front of him, learning new techniques and developing a solid portfolio.  He is excited to learn and to grow and discover a great career out in the concept art or illustration industry, and who knows what else.