Chris Mangum is a San Francisco Bay Area based Freelance Illustrator and Concept artist. He attended Academy of Art University in the 1990’s, graduating with a BFA in Illustration.
Chris Mangum has worked for Bay Area video game companies, and other companies on a freelance basis. Also he has showed nationally and internationally in fine art galleries, creating oil paintings for private collectors.
He also teaches sketching and digital painting classes at the Academy of Art University in the school of Game Development.
His inspirations and artistic loves span from classic golden age illustrators like NC Wyeth to very stylized animators like Genndy Tartovsky.
Clients
Upper Deck, Inc. (licensed through Marvel Comics).
Livermore Valley Wine Growers
Contra Costa County Connection Transit Authority
Morgan Manor Restoration Project
Blue Shift Games
Backyard Productions, Inc.
Atlas Games and Denmark Illustration Studio
Mother Goose Independent Publishing
3do Games
Pelican Travel Agency
Chris Mangum
Concept Artist and Illustrator
artistchris@gmail.com
925 360-3728