About the Artist
W.N. Lee Bolton was born in Austin, Texas in 1975. From early childhood Lee developed an interest in art through obsessively watching his mother draw for him and his father who would bring home reams of dot matrix paper. This translated quickly into television cartoons, and they became a catalyst of information and style to him. After his fourth grade teacher recommended comic books to his parents to help Lee improve his reading comprehension, he began to copy and draw from them. Soon after his father began to allow Lee to use his personal computer and he learned the forerunner to Paint. Lee began to learn Bryce in 1998, and incorporated it into his work in Photoshop and later Illustrator where he openly embraced the programs as tools of art. Lee returned to school to polish and formalize his skills in art in 2003.
In 2006, Lee’s editorial cartoons were published in the ACC Accent Student Newspaper, and he was a recipient of the Edwina Traverso Scholarship Fund from Austin Community College. As 2007 began, Lee’s artwork, The Sea of Feet, was featured at the Daughtery Arts Center, then later in the year received an A.A.S. of Graphic Design from ACC and finally was accepted to attend Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California that fall. After acclimating himself to the school Lee began teacher assisting for Digital Design and Introduction to Modernism in 2008, and was swept into political office assuming the duties of Vice President of Art Center Student Government in 2009. His pieces Alice In Chains and St. Basil’s Poster have been on display in the school’s gallery and the Office of Student Life and his pieces St. Basil’s Cathedral and Kurosawa Film Festival are part of the school’s online Digital Design I Gallery. 2010 has seen Lee assume the duties of the President of Art Center Student Government and begin teacher assisting for Sketching for Illustration. He will graduate in the Fall with a Bachelors of Illustration in Entertainment Arts from the school.