Name: Jeff Epp
Hometown: Harrow, ON
Publication:
Drug Facts for Young People
Born: 1979
Winning Ben Wicks Award entry:
- Cover
- Allan Asks
- Caffeine
- Fredy the Fish
- Parents
Current:
Past:
Jeff, the youngest sibling of a boys-only family, was born and raised
in one of Canada's southernmost towns, Harrow...a beautiful place to grow.
Like every young budding artist, he began early developmental art with
sidewalk chalk and a cul de sac full of pavement as his drawing board. Since
colouring in-between the lines was a cinch and his creativity was uncapped
by his childhood, he continued to sketch and create characters that filled
his imagination and entertained his personality. As of then, watching
TV’s golden days of animation, colouring books and drawing
were now part of his advanced curriculum.
Encouragement from his parents, grandparents, peers and from grade school teachers allowed him to further his part-time hobby to his fulltime obsession. Currently, he works as a computer animator for a Toronto-based company, and works as a freelance illustrator for linkartists.com.
With the Ben Wicks Award, Jeff plans to pay back his school loan sharks and continue his attraction to art, through needy projects and feverish ideas.
Those of you that would like to see his all-inclusive art - like character designs, concepts, illustration and animations, can checkout his website in the forthcoming months at jeffepp.com. Comments are always welcome at jeffepp@3web.com.
Jeff says, "Special gratitude to God, My Family, My wife Margaret, and to the head cold that brought me into the doctor's office to read about this beneficial contest!"
