Cartoon Class for Kids!

Fall 2013 Classes Forming NOW in Columbia!

Instructor,
Charles Akins
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Artist and Illustrator, Charles Akins, is an award winning Graphic Designer and Illustrator with over twenty years experience creating attention grabbing, yet friendly, art and design for a diverse roster of clients from American Express, The Coca-Cola Company, Hanes, McDonald’s, CheckFree Corporation, Nike, PetCo, Mighty Auto Parts, UPS Stores, Home Depot, Arby's, Time, Pepsi, Computerworld,
Fox Kid's Magazine, and Scholastic, to MAD magazine and many other agencies, organizations, publishers,
and corporations.

He has also had the honor of being an adjunct Instructor for over twenty years at Georgia State University School of Art and Design, University of South Carolina, and South University.
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Mr. Akins’ work has been widely
published and featured in Step-By-Step digital, The Illustration Workbook, Picturebook, and in the Hayden book: “Adobe Illustrator-Creative Techniques,” as well as the recent Quayside published "Logolounge Master Library: 3000 Animal & Mythology Logos."

He is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. In the last few years, he has illustrated an award winning, independent Children’s book, ”The Lonely Parrot,” by Lisa Kelly Schindler (available at TheLonelyParrot.net,) and has authored and illustrated three other Digital books now for sale at Amazon.com. Currently, he is working on an upcoming interactive book- app for kids to be available online in the Apple app store.
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