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Elena Martinez
- 27, Female
- San Jose, CA
- United States
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Amateur Comic Artists
92 members
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Visual Artists
98 members
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LOCAL - California
14 members
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Hello CCAS World!!! :D
I came to be on CCAS through hearing about them at 2011 WonderCon - San Francisco, CA.I'm extremely ecstatic to be here because it has been a huge desire on my heart to find opportunities in…Continue
Tags: Illustrator, California
Started Apr 14, 2011
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- Location:
- San Jose, CA
- Gender
- F
- Website:
- http://www.elearts.com/
- Area(s) of Interest or Expertise:
- Experience: Illustration, Film & Animation
Other Interests: Graphic Design, Production Design, Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Visual Development, Storyboarding, Animation & Live-Action Film
- My Testimony: (We encourage members to share briefly about how their faith in Christ has impacted their lives.)
- *I was born to stand-out, which in a child's mindset means your a Freak/Oddball. Praise God for my family, who accepted me as the eccentric artistic child I still am, but it felt like everyone else in my little world was against me; specifically in church & school. With that negative self-image on my belt that swelled up in my mind the following years of being reminded of it, high school to early collage was the darkest time of my life. I struggled with depression and wore it on my black gothic sleeve. I played with witchcraft, divination & even demonology, if you think about it in a spiritual perspective. I did all this while I still physically attended a spiritually-numb church. My AHA! moment wasn't far behind when my family began to attend a new church, then later lead to attend an Acquire the Fire youth conference in 2005. It was then I choose to serve at Teen Mania Ministries, Hopped on a plane to Texas and lived there for 2 years to work in the awesome media dept. called 'Center for Creative Media'. Everything radically changed from there!
- Dream Job: (If you could have your dream job in the comics industry, what would it be?)
- Concerning the comic industry, my small ambition in this area is to write, illustrate and produce my own graphic novels. This will possibly be a side project off my main ambition to illustrate for story and visual development in animated films.
- Favorite Comic Creators:
- I was raised with DC & Marvel comics. Honestly, just been raised, not read. The only comic I remember reading was the very short Marvel comic series on Wolverine's daughter 'Wild Thing'. Only 5 issues were published and I got all 5.
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The 'Spirituality in Comics' Panel from San Diego Comic-Con 2011
In comics, movies, and even Broadway musicals like “The Book Of Mormon”, spiritual themed work seems to be unexpectedly coming from the least religious of sources.
Panelists including SERGIO CARIELLO (The Action Bible), RUSSELL DALTON (Marvelous Myths: Marvel Superheroes and Everyday Faith), BUZZ DIXON (Serenity/Hits & Misses), and MIKE SHIELDS (Blue Blazes) discuss how a new generation of comics and pop culture are exploring timeless truths and also address the question “Is Mass Media Our New Church?”
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Welcome to CCAS, Elena!
If you have any questions on anything, just let me know.
Eric Jansen
CCAS Membership Coordinator
Sälü Elena!
Yes, I do live in Switzerland and I'm up to drawing some sketches for Emblazor and another project I'm working on! And you? :)
Be blessed!
Michael
Wow Elena,
You're interesting. There's a story there. I'm going through a tough time right now but I know God is with me. I'm enrolled in the art institute of pittsburgh for animation. I want to do cartoons like Genndy Tartakovsky. Samurai Jack, Dexter's Lab., Symbionic Titan. I love his stuff. I've got a few titles that I'm working on now and some kids books. Hope to get them done soon. Glad you're here.