Born of the ashes of a Graphite planet, Steve McGinnis has invaded the art world one brush stroke and ink line at a time. Born in the early seventies and being the youngest of the family could have some down sides, plaid pants, The Bay City Rollers & disco. But the up sides were that Steve could watch movies and TV shows that were meant for a much older audience. E.g. Jaws, the Trilogy of Terror, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and soon many more. Always illustrating from a young age this horror style started to appear in his work as early as grade one, which meant many trips to the school office for his parents. Through grade and high school Steve was an artistic sponge, absorbing different styles from different mediums and started developing a young style of his own. This helped him win multiple awards and honors with his art. Once graduated Steve went on to College for Fine art and Graphic design. This opened him up to many new styles and mediums. Though the entire time he still retained his dark yet whimsical style. After college Steve had the unique opportunity to work under one of Canada's leading photorealistic nature artists, Albert Casson. This helped sharpen his realism skills and the importance of lighting and shadows. Making a heavy decision Steve one day broke out on his own, starting with odd comic art jobs and soon breaking into the children's book field, things progressively started becoming busier and authors and publishers started to want his realistic yet animated style. He started illustrating children's novels in 2009 and now has 45 books published all over the world. In the spring of 2012 Steve was commissioned to paint some images and posters for the Niagara Falls Comic-Con to honor the 1974 cast of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. This was a dream job! Reaching back to his horror roots he not only painted a TCM print that the cast loved he was asked then to do the same for the Night of the living Dead. He started painting and illustrating everything horror again and this time, was able to make it look photorealistic. Since then his work has been on movie posters, graphic novels, convention posters, album covers and in horror magazines such as Gore Noir, Fangoria, Gorezone and of course Diabolique Magazine. "It always blows my mind when people purchase my prints or appreciate my horror art. It's fun to share my passion of horror with others who share the same passion for it."
