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After graduating from Bellarmine Preparatory in Tacoma, Robert Lovely attended Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, Calif. During a required drawing class for his art history major, he suddenly realized it would be much more fun to make pictures than to talk about them. So after finishing a double major in art and English (just in case), he moved to New York for more training. The next 10 years he spent in nude drawing, anatomy and perspective classes. "To keep from going crazy I drew a funny little pen-and-ink every day. Eventually they were published on a Web site called Fresh Art Daily. People really liked them, and encouraged me to send them off to the syndicates." Jake Morrissey from United Media picked the cartoons up for comics.com.
The next mountain to climb was The New Yorker. In June 2005, Rob sold his very first submission to that Valhalla of cartooning.
As if he wasn’t already odd enough (voted “Most Eccentric “ in his high school class — seriously), Rob always dreamed of being a stockbroker. The discussions at the Lovelys' dinner table often revolved around dividends and the Value Line Investment Survey, and his uncle Tim Lovely had a good friend who was a broker in Alaska. Now that sounded like the life! So after receiving his M.F.A. from the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy of Art, and as your typical Master of Classical Drawing with an emphasis on pen-and-ink isn’t heavily recruited by Goldman Sachs, he did basic mergers and acquisitions work and went on to get his broker’s license. At a large international brokerage firm he worked from 2 p.m. to midnight, Thursday to Sunday, leaving most of the week for studio time. Then he watched the horrible events of Sept. 11 from a roof about a mile away. It was time for less stress. He still follows the market, though … when you visit his studio CNBC is usually on in the background.
In addition to "Days of Thunder" and The New Yorker, Rob does portrait commissions and book illustrations. His goal in life is using computers to help us get back to drawing as well as the Old Masters. He has won many prestigious awards and honors, including two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants. His work is in many top collections including the Forbes magazine collection. He lives with his girlfriend (and no pets other than “about a gazillion orchids”) in New York City.
For more of Robert’s work, visit www.robertlovely.com
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