About the instructor: Elvin Hernandez (EdD) is an educator with fourteen years’ worth of experience as well as a practicing freelance artist in the field of comics, illustration, and commercial art. As a Sequential Illustrator, he has worked on projects for Upper Deck, Cryptozoic, Toys R’ Us, Focal press (writing and illustrating “Set The Action!”, an educational book on background design for Media Artists), and Kaiser Studio Productions. He has also worked on images and marketing material for DC Entertainment, Marvel, FX, and Cartoon Network properties. As an educator, he currently teaches at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore subjects connected with comics and visual arts, while also speaking on subjects connected to sequential art studies at events such as the San Diego Comic Con, AwesomeCon, and other conventions across the country. He is originally from Puerto Rico and is fully bilingual in both English and Spanish.
