Eric Strenger has over ten years of experience in design, illustration and arts education.

Raised just outside Los Angeles, he first started drawing and painting as a high school student in California, teaching art skills to teenagers who had been convicted of graffiti and tagging. This led him to the Academy of Art college, where he studied illustration and earned a BFA in 1999.

After graduating, he made two calendars of hip-hop personalities to promote his skills as an Illustrator. The calendars raised his profile and led to feature illustrations for several publications and brands, including Def Jam, Playboy, Ecko Unltd. and a four page spread in Fader Magazine. He then attended the Claremont Graduate School, where he received his MFA in Studio Art in 2002.

While at Claremont, Eric also taught drawing and painting to incarcerated  men in at California’s Institution for Men in Chino. He moved back to San Francisco and spent five years, teaching drawing and painting to public school students from K-12, as well as Juvenile Offenders -- while continuing a successful freelance career.

Eric has won numerous awards from the San Francisco and New York Societies of Illustrators, and his original paintings are in the collections of Marc Ecko, Def Jam records, and Playboy. He also designed and painted the mural for the film, “Barbershop”.

Eric currently lives in San Francisco Ca., working freelance as a web designer and offers both private and group art lessons to children and adults.

TESTIMONIALS

"I had the pleasure of working with Eric. He is fast, creative, talented, conscientious, an excellent collaborator and a pleasure to be around. He is a versatile designer who adapts easily to different brands and styles while maintaining a personal sense of design integrity, which reflects in his work. Another remarkable thing about Eric is that he is a fantastic illustrator. When we worked together I appreciated the truly unique illustrations that we were able to integrate into our web design. He can faithfully illustrate abstract representations and also realistic ones. He is also a great flash designer who programs his own animations. I cannot say enough nice things about Eric and recommend him fully.” -Betsy Finston, SVP Online, Oxygen Media


"Eric Strenger is an artist that sees the light and laughter in everything around him. If you can manage to get him to stop chuckling long enough, you'll be lucky to be let in to the delights of his imagination." -Channon Hodge


"Hands down: Eric is the best fucking artist I've ever worked with." -Sheerly Avni


"Eric’s unique ability to transform any canvas - be it a sketchpad, your computer screen, his living room wall, or the human body - into a work of art speaks for itself. I met Eric almost twenty years ago, and he continues to inspire me with his innate sense of aesthetics, his peaceful spirit, and his contagious smile." -Afua Apenyo