Chris Holden, illustrator and graphic designer

The following are various samples of illustrations I produced, as contract artist, over
the past few years. These samples are presented under different categories to show
versatility of my work. Please take the time to review all samples, and thank
you for your time and consideration. Enjoy!

Some professional background:

• Over 45 years work experience in illustration and graphic design.

• B.S. in Commercial Art from Southwest Texas State University.
• M.F.A. with concentration in illustration, Academy of Art University, San Francisco.

Work sought - Contract. I prefer to work remotely, but willing and able to meet in person
whenever necessary. Excellent at meeting deadlines.

You can contact me at choldengraphics@gmail.com, call or text mobile: 719-323-5630

PUBLICATIONS
Cover proposal for Aragon - Watercolor
Preteen and young adult
Inside for Los Muertos de Tortuga - Acrylic
Preteen and young adult
Sleeping Beauty / the spell - Watercolor
Elementary / preteen
Sleeping Beauty / the prince arrives - Watercolor
Elementary / preteen
Sleeping Beauty / the kiss - Watercolor
Elementary / preteen
Tortoise and the Hare - Corel Paint and Photoshop
Elementary
Inside illustration for ‘What Might Be?’, elementary / preteen.
Created in Illustrator and Photoshop.
Cover and selected pages ink illustrations - Primary level
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Selected illustrations from self published
biography of Francisco Cruz-Hurtado.
Francisco, my wife’s grandfather, was one of the original Sandinistas
under Augusto Sandino. The nationalist movement was later split by
a communist faction that enventually prevailed as the more commonly
known Sandinistas.
Cover - Pencil and watercolor
Incursion: Occupation of U.S. Marines during Nicaraguan
President Juan Sacasa (left) administration; later deposed
by dictator Anastasio Somoza-Garcia - Pencil & watercolor
Young Paulina Aguirre-Ocampo (Mama Mina)
Francisco’s wife - Oil wash
Death of Antonio Cruz-Hurtado, Representative in
Nicaraguan Congress. Speculative redition, mystery
death by poison never solved. - Pencil & watercolor.
Young Francisco (later known as ‘Papa Chico’).
Pencil & watercolor.
Augusto Sandino - Pencil & watercolor.
COMMERCIAL
Full page ad for Apple iPod - Watercolor
Full page ad for Orkin - Acrylic
Poster for Lone Star Roadhouse - Photoshop
CARICATURE
James Dean - The Rebel Oil
Johnny Cash - The Man in Black Airbrush acrylic
The Patriot - Tribute to Bob Hope Oil
COMMISSION
Tribute to Tex Hill for Texas Commemorative Air Force Oil
Private commission portrait Pastel
 EDUCATIONAL
Illustrations for Dinah-Might Adventures learning materials,
published by McGraw-Hill. DMA is a subsidiary of Dinah Zike
Academy, professional development center for teachers. This
contract has been the bulk of my work for the past five years. In
that time I have produced close to 6000 illustrations, primarily
digital with some studio work. Contract will be complete end of
June, 2018.

All illustrations © Dinah-Might Adventures. www.dinah.com

 SOCIAL STUDIES
Historical figures for learning manipulatives, secondary
level students. All original art created in Ilustrator.
Leif Erikson
Alexander Hamilton
Booker T. Washington
Frederick Douglass
John Brown
Harriet Tubman
Chief Joseph
Sitting Bull
General George Custer
J D Rockefeller
Thomas Edison
Mimi Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
Nikita Khrushchev
Martin Luther King
Cesar Chavez
Malcolm X
Rosa Parks
Shirley Chisholm
Louis Armstrong
Sandra Day O’Connor
History’s Villans
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Fidel Castro
Saddam Hussein
Scientists and Mathematicians
Omar Khayyam
Leonhard Euler
James Watt
Nikola Tesla
Albert Einstein
John Nash
Paul Dirac
Rosalind Franklin
Carl Sagan
Mae Jemison
Stephen Hawking
 LITERATURE
Author illustrations for learning manipulatives,
primary and secondary level students. Ink illustration.
Anne Frank
Beatrix Potter
CS Lewis
Emily Dickenson
Mark Twain
Robert Frost
Shel Silverstein
TS Eliot
 VOCABULARY/PHONICS
Ink renderings for early childhood language manipilatives.
© Dinah-Might Adventures. www.dinah.com
Numbers ‘3’
Numbers ‘3’
Nouns - ‘Principal’
Nouns - ‘Wig’
Verbs - ‘Lose’
Verbs - ‘Make’
Verbs - ‘Sell’
Adjectives - ‘Sneaky’
Prepositions - ‘Between’
Compound words - ‘Dogcatcher’
Antonyms - ‘Best - Worst’
Antonyms - ‘Careful - Careless’
Antonyms - ‘Share - Keep’
Negative prefixes - ‘Nonprofit’
Negative prefixes - ‘Disagree’
 SHUTTERFOLDS
Selected vector renderings in Illustrator for elementary
comprehension detail exercises of popular children’s
stories. Designed for half fold layout. © Dinah-Might Adventures
Fish is Fish
Green Eggs and Ham
Little Engine that Could
Stella Luna
The Three Little Pigs
Where the Wild Things Are
 Habitats
Illustrations for Dinah-Might Adventures display case assemblies.
These evironmental digital images were produced in Illustrator
and designed for format of template shown below to build box
display stands as part of interactive learning manipulative. The
yellow area of template denotes focus of illustration, with blue
as peripheral images.

All illustrations © Dinah-Might Adventures

Polar environment
Desert environment
Ocean environment
Mountain environment
End