Lance Smith
Lance is currently involved in the LA Surf and Punk Rock art culture and has had the distinctive pleasure of presenting his artwork in various South Bay and Los Angeles art shows. His Surf Art was featured in the 2011 July issue of a local beach city newspaper, the Easy Reader Hermosa Beach. (Article written by Rebecca Zisser and photos by Brent Broza).
OUR Story
A native Californian, is a talented multi-faceted cartoonist and illustrator who currently lives and works in Redondo Beach, a suburb of Los Angeles. His illustrations pay homage to years of collecting Comics, Sci-fi and Horror magazines in addition to his love and respect for nature. His distinctive personal artistic expressions reflect both joy and anger of his high energy style.
A self taught artist, he developed his skill as a means to break up his boredom and to help overcome the day in the life of his mundane school curriculum. He created black and white images depicting both cartoon and real images of the outdoors, barbarians and things that go bump in the night.
Enlisting in the U.S. Coast Guard just after high school, he often found himself entertaining the troops with cartoon characters of fellow military coworkers. And because of his innate artistic skills, he was sought out to advertise for military events. After the military he found himself working for various companies eventually becoming a professional designer and printer. With one company, he was commissioned to travel to both Hong Kong and China as an artist.