ABOUT US
Swatches started as a casual art educational YouTube channel by Clint Cearley. Over the course of 8 years the channel grew to over 100,000 subscribers, a line of educational material, art challenges, and community.
With Diana stepping away from her tenure as an instructor and Director of Studies at Syn Studio Concept Art School, they pooled their 20+ years of art teaching to expand Swatches into a full academy with classes on a variety of illustration and concept art topics. Academy's goal is to provide the classes, and educational options that we wished had been available during our years of training.
Clint and Diana live in Portugal.
Channel: youtube.com/swatches | Discord: swatchesdiscord.com
Clint Cearley
Trained in traditional and digital media, with 12+ years as a full-time freelance illustrator and art educator. Clint has created 100+ images for Magic: The Gathering and D&D, as well served as a Senior Outsource Art Supervisor at Blizzard. He has also made work for Hearthstone, Smite, Legends of the Cryptids, ImagineFX magazine, and Artifact, among others. His work is primarily in an illustrative realism style with specialty in character illustrations.
Proficiency: Digital painting in Photoshop, communicating art principles and ideas, problem-solving and improving images through reviews and paintover, career and portfolio direction.
Email: clint@swatchesacademy.com | Instagram: @cearleyclint | Gallery: clintcearley.com
Diana Cearley
A freelance artist best known for her fantasy illustrations and concept art in the video game, comic book, publishing, and tabletop industries including Magic: The Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Hex Entertainment, Aethera RPG. She has also been featured in ImagineFX, and Infected by Art. Diana served as an instructor of digital painting, life drawing, character design, as well as the Director of Studies at Syn Studio Concept Art School where many of her students went on to work for AAA studios such as Ubisoft, Eidos, Atomhawk, Behavior, EA and others.
Email: diana@swatchesacademy.com | Instagram: @dianacearleyart | Gallery: dianacearley.com
Nino Vecia
Nino Vecia is a freelance illustrator working for companies and IP’s like Wizards Of The Coast, Magic the Gathering, Dungeons and Dragons, Blizzard and MLSE just to name a few.
He’s self published two illustrated novels (The Warden’s Call and Shadows of Aydralem). The novels are ultimately a twisted story of Gods and the ways in which their flaws influence the humans they watch over. A colourful world of fantasy and adventure that tells a tale of how power can corrupt, even those with the strongest resolve.
Email: nino.vecia@gmail.com | Gallery: ninovecia.com
Guilherme Freitas
Working primarily with stylized and colorful projects, Guilherme is a Freelance artist working with Blizzard creating Hearthstone cards and concepts for the past couple of years. Also creates online content about art, bringing tips, tutorials, time lapses and discussions over on his Youtube channel, Brush Rush, for 10 years now. Since 2017, publishes self-study online courses that have already reached over 20,000 students from Brazil and all over the world. Is excited and looking forward to developing his own comic books and games in the next few years and continuing to teach and help other students reach their art goals.
Email: guigfreitas@gmail.com
Instagram: @gui.gfreitas
Gallery: www.brushrush.com.br/portfolio
Donna Shvil
An accomplished figurative artist with over 25 years of experience, specializing in figure studies and realistic-style painting. Her paintings and drawings can be found in public and private collections in Canada and internationally. Recognized for her skill as a first-rate image-maker, her artwork has been featured in art magazines in both Canada and the United States.
Site: https://www.artbydonnashvil.com
