Grant Goodwine is a working Louisville, Kentucky-based freelance illustrator who specializes in Ink and watercolor work. With some formal training in Indianapolis Indiana, he spent the last decade running around the American Midwest, attending Punk Rock shows and cutting his teeth within the illustration industry doing artwork for Underground bands. He has long been affiliated with the GONZO movement, including illustrating The Hell’s Angels Letters and being the official Gonzofest artist. Grant’s work is often considered Loud and Visceral just like the underground music scenes where he got his start. To aspiring artists he says:
You aren’t going to put your pencil on paper and you’re instantly Leonardo DaVinci. You gotta get up and dance with the 8-legged shark and get knocked down a couple times. And the only way to get better is to dance with the damn thing. OK, so your drawing, writing, photograph isn’t perfect. Sometimes it’s downright ugly. But you still went out and danced.
I may have the hands of a painter, but I have the heart of a musician. I want my pieces to hit people in the same way songs do.
