Christopher Troutman

Artists and draftsman for nearly 20 years with experience combining fine art and illustration with goals to expand professional resume. Skills focused on rapid ideation, drawing and painting, with versatility in style and genre including realism, cartooning, and comics, in both analog and digital media for any subject matter or audience. Born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in Peoria, Illinois, Christopher Troutman has lived in Beaumont, Texas since 2013, where he teaches all levels of drawing at Lamar University. In his work, Troutman uses drawing to depict the human figure in contemporary urban settings, as well as examine storytelling inspired by personal narrative, borrowing many formal conventions from American comic book art and historical and contemporary fine art. In 2003 Troutman received a BFA from Bradley University then moved to Japan, where he and his wife opened a conversational English school in Kagoshima City. He and his family return to Japan each summer annually.