About Christopher Doll

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Christopher Doll is an space and science fiction artist from the Pacific Northwest USA. His work has been featured on a number of book covers including Becky Chambers' Hugo Award winning Wayfarers series. He also hosts a weekly livestream on Twitch.TV

I am an artist and designer who specializes in space, astronomy, and science fiction subjects. This site is a showcase of my lifelong passion for space art. I love living in the future.

As far back as I can remember I’ve always enjoyed drawing. Inspired by the Apollo missions and science fiction stories, I would spend hours drawing rockets and planets. I became obsessed with trying to properly draw the U.S.S. Enterprise in exact detail and proportion. These were the days before the internet, so books and magazines filled my imagination with fantastic world, aliens, and spaceships. I remain inspired by this era as I develop my own technique and vision.

In college I studied film production and later, Industrial Design. Both tracks gave me a chance to focus my creative energy towards visual design and production methods that would give me a wide range of skills for my career. Then the consumer computer industry exploded, opening doors that didn’t exist at the same scale when I started college. My design skills and experience allowed me to break into game design, which I later focused to user interface design. On the side I’ve maintained a number of creative hobbies, including scale model building, cartoons, and digital art.

I am currently a full time artist with a number of book covers to my credit. Primarily I paint with traditional materials and techniques, as well as digital tools for many of my projects. In 2020 I started a weekly livestream on Twitch.tv, where I paint a new science fiction scene every week.

If you are interested in my artwork, a number of original pieces and prints are available in my store. And I am always open to commissions, so please feel free to contact me if there’s something you’d like to see.

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Work Experience

  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Razorfish
  • Expedia
  • POP Inc.
  • Vertafore
  • Contour
  • Bethesda Softworks
  • DDG Architects

Skills

  • User Experience Design
  • User Interface Design
  • Visual Design / Digital Art
  • Branding
  • Usability
  • Fine Art
  • Scale models
  • Prototyping
  • Video Production
  • Website Design & Curation

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