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David Ho creates dark digital art with irony. Pieces expressing grief, despair, isolation and sexual disturbance become highly emotional statements in cold, metallic colours on the artist's Macintosh easel. And each is forceful. Within the various software he has chosen for his pallet, Mr Ho is a uniquely effective communicator of the grotesque. Randy M Dannenfelser.
After receiving a bachelors degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley, I seriously decided in becoming an artist. I re enrolled in school and attained another bachelors degree in Art History with a Fine Arts minor at San Jose State University. After over 15 years of working as a freelance designer, illustrator and fine artist, I think creating art has become more of a necessity than anything. Productivity, distraction, a sense of immortality, an outlet for expression are but a few reasons.

CLIENTS

Corona Beer, Simon & Schuster, Random House, The Source Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Interscope Records, Ziff Davis, the NRA, Wizards of the Coast, Infected Mushroom, Penguin Publishing, Seether, Ogilvy Advertising, Cradle of Filth


COMPETITIONS & PUBLICATIONS

Society of Illustrators Annuals, Spectrum Annuals, Communication Arts Illustration Annuals, American Illustration Annuals, Juxtapoz Magazine Online Illustration Feature, Alternative Pick Jury Voted Series Gold Award, Design Graphics, Heavy Metal, Computer Graphics World, DPI Magazine, Luerzer's International ARCHIVE, ImagineFX, 3x3 Magazine.



BOOKS

2012 ANSWERS OF SILENCE
published by Thunderstorm Books
2012 SUNDANCING
published by Thunderstorm Books
2012 EARTHWORM GODS II: DELUGE
published by Thunderstorm Books
2012 THE MONK
published by Centipede Press
2012 MASS FOR MIXED VOICES
published by Centipede Press
2012 TALES FROM THE GREAT GUIGNOL
published by Centipede Press
2011 3x3 ILLUSTRATION ANNUAL #8
published by The Illustrated Press, Inc.
2011 200 BEST ILLUSTRATORS WORLDWIDE
published by Luerzers Archive
2011 ALL HEADS TURN WHEN THE HUNT GOES BY
published by Centipede Press
2011 THE LIGHT IS THE DARKNESS
published by Infernal House
2010 DARK INSPIRATIONS: GROTESQUE ILLUSTRATIONS, ART & DESIGN
published by Viction:ary
2010 STAR WARS: VISIONS
published by Abrams Publishing
2009 EXOTIQUE 5
published by Ballistic Publishing
2009 200 BEST ILLUSTRATORS WORLDWIDE
published by Luerzers Archive
2009 FANTASY ART BIBLE
published by Quarto Publishing
2009 KNOWING DARKNESS: ARTISTS INSPIRED BY STEPHEN KING
published by Centipede Press.
2008 DESIGN STARS BOULEVARD
published by Handsome Tec. Co.
2007 ILLUSTRATION: A THEORETICAL & CONTEXTUAL PERSPECTIVE
published by AVA Publishing
2007 SECRETS OF POSER EXPERTS
published by Thomson Course Technology
2004 DIGITAL ART FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
published by Harper Design International
2002 SECRETS OF AWARD WINNING DIGITAL ARTISTS
published by Wiley Publishing
2002 SHADOW MAKER: THE DIGITAL ART OF DAVID HO
published by Abaya Studios
2002 DIGITAL FANTASY PAINTING
published by Watson Guptill
1999 THE DIGITAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF DAVID HO
published by SunGood Books