Bill Sienkiewicz to Instruct at Illustration Academy 2016

The Illustration Academy is thrilled to announce that Eisner-winning, Emmy-nominated artist, Bill Sienkiewicz, (pronounced sin-KEV-itch)  will be instructing at The Illustration Academy Summer Workshop 2016. The Academy is scheduled for June 13 - July 15 and will feature a dozen of todays most accomplished, skilled, and experienced illustrators in the commercial and fine art industry. 

The Joker by Bill Sienkiewicz

Sienkiewicz is best known for revamping the style of comic and graphic novel illustration from 1980 onward, most notably with Marvel Comic's Elektra: Assassin and his acclaimed graphic novel Stray Toasters, earning him an international reputation and cult status across media industries. 

He created groundbreaking movie promotional art for The Dark Knight, The Grinch, Unforgiven and the hit video game Resident Evil. Sienkiewicz' character design for the upcoming DreamWorks' film Alcatraz Versus The Evil Librarians has now opened doors for producing. Sienkiewicz is conceptualizing characters for LionsGate's supernatural Western The Man With No Name, which he will executive produce with Braxton Pope. He will also jointly produce, write and direct the film of his Stray Toasters with Jeff Renfroe. 

A classically-trained painter, Sienkiewicz's renderings incorporate abstract and expressionist influences and any combination of oil painting, acrylics, watercolor, mixed-media, collage and mimeograph - previously unheard of in comics. His work has garnered numerous accolades - most notably a 2004 Eisner Award for DC Comics' The Sandman: Endless Nights, and 1995 and 1996 Emmy Award nominations for production and character design on the PBS children's TV series Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego? Elektra: Assassin swept the top comic illustration awards in the U.S., Europe and Italy, respectively, with a 1987 Kirby Award, 1986 Yellow Kid Award and 1986 Gran Guigiri Award. 

The Illustration Academy's 2016 summer workshop is scheduled for June 13 - July 15. During the 5-week illustration bootcamp, students are exposed to an immersive educational environment that explores and maps out the secrets to the illustration industry. This year The Illustration Academy will be hosting a record number of professional illustrators. 

The Illustration Academy Instructor List 2016

Bill Sienkiewicz

Wesley Burt

George Pratt

Victo Ngaio

Jon Foster

Mark English

John English

Gary Kelley

C. F. Payne

Bill Carman

Edward Kinsella

Jeffrey Alan Love

Bill Koeb

Sterling Hundley

The Stream TV discusses Bill Sienkiewicz one of the greatest comic book artists of our time, beginning with Elektra Assassin. His mixed-media imagery was ground-breaking. Stray Toasters was the unique graphic novel Sienkewicz wrote and illustrated! Join Jon Schnepp (Metalocalypse, AMC Movie Talk, The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?)

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