Nele Klumpe

Location: Germany Web: www.neleklumpe.de Email: nele.klumpe@gmx.de Software: Photoshop

Nele was featured in FXPosé way back in 2008. Since then, a few wellchosen words of encouragement from her peers have helped her hone her craft.

“I started studying design,” she says. “During that time my art skills were still pretty bad. I didn’t know how to improve until a few fellow artists inspired me to start working harder.”

It’s clearly paid off. Nele is now employed full-time as a designer but continues to illustrate on a freelance basis, sketching every day during her commute to work. Her ambition is earn a living drawing fantasy art.

1 The Journey begins “This year I took James Paick’s environment design class at CGMW. This was my final piece, in which I applied everything I’d learned throughout the workshop. It’s also the prequel to The Journey’s End that I’d wanted to do for...