You're listening to the savvy painter podcast, episode number 20.

Welcome to the savvy painter podcast, the podcast for artists who mean business.

Here's your host, Antrice Wood.

Hey, it's Antrice and welcome to another episode of the Sabby Painter Podcast.

William Ray is with me today.

William is a painter of Urban Street scenes and he also does a modern take on

superheroes. He's worked at Marvel and DC Comics and most notably to my nieces at

least on the Ren and Stimpy Show. His paintings blend traditional representational skill

with abstract expressionism

to express his view of current life.

Well, thanks for talking with me.

Thanks for inviting me entries.

So correct me if I'm wrong, but you've always bounced back and forth between fine arts and comics, right?

Yeah, we're in a world now of multiple revenue streams, right?

Yeah, totally. Can you tell me a little bit

about that and a little bit about your journey to where you are now? Sure. When I was a teenager, I was

attracted to cartoons and comics and we can break that down into detail if you want but for now I'll just say I worked a little bit professionally as an assistant to different artists and got my foot in the door with Marvel Comics and eventually worked in

animation at the at the animation houses in LA like Filmation and Hannah

Barbera but I really wanted to be a fine artist. I wanted to go to Arts Center, but couldn't afford it.

So my parents game plan for me was that if I went to a JC, got a bachelor's, they would consider

funding Arts Center for me, but they wanted me to do a little test.

I got to the JC and nobody wanted to draw or paint traditionally and that's what I wanted to do.

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