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I am a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a joker, not a smoker...,play my music all
night long, dude.

I was born and raised in Big Spring, a small town out in west Texas, where I spent
the first 18 years of my life. I moved to Austin, TX, in 1995, which is just a little north
of me now,and over the years I've managed to draw, paint, sculpt, create many great
pieces of art. I've also been fortunate enough to be hired to do commissioned work
for several clients.

From 1999 to 2002, I was an aspiring comic book artist, submitting comic book
samples after comic book samples. I started my art career drawing for and
submitting comic book art to various companies for consideration (Crossgeneration
comics in Florida, Image Comics in California, and Marvel Comics in New York).
Man, I pumped out some cool comic book style pics and wrote 3 comic books during
this time. I fully illustrated one called The Power of the Origin, an epic fantasy about
a female elf-ling, with the power to save her planet from the evil elven devil, Lord
LaCruel'.   I also did a few pieces to display and sell around Austin, which is when I
started my collection called Musicians and Poets. Since then, I've added to this
collection and will continue to expand this series. All are prisma pencils on black or
red paper with lots of fine detail. The series has some of my favorite pieces of art
that I've done.

In 2005, I decided to get familiar with computers a little more and apply my art skills,
so I launched www.paulmckinneyart.com, this website to help promote and display
my current and older work.

In 2007, I got busy with poster designs for local musicians, cd cover designs, t-shirt
designs and launched www.CustomMyTees.com.   Musicians like Mark Mckinney,
Gypsy Weed Blues Band, Leo Rondeau, Brennen Leigh and a few others have kept
me busy.   October, placed 5th in www.Cafepress.com ," I'm voting for...CONTEST"
design, a national competition for their members.

2009
I've been slowly working on Another Layer, but on 3/03/09, Another Layer doesn't
get into Zudacomics.com competition. I will continue this comic, but it's not first on
the list. Since March, been drawing the monthly fanart crossover posters for
zudacomics and working on the Cosmic Cowboys On the Run comic, written by Mark
McKinney, along with a few new tshirt designs.