William Li graduated from the Delft University
of Technology and holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial
Design Engineering. He currently works as an industrial design engineer
with a design firm.
He started Fenyx to do freelance illustration
and sell personal artwork on the side. In his artwork William Li
strives for realism to make the fantastical look real and believable.
His favorite art subjects therefore lies in science fiction and
fantasy, and his preferred style is classical realism. Within Sci-Fi/Fantasy
he finds people to be the most fascinating subjects to paint. He
is also much inspired by Asian arts and most notably ancient Chinese
culture.
His illustration skills include a wide variety of traditional media
(such as pencil, ink, markers and airbrush), digital painting, vector
art and 3D rendering, always aiming to reach an optimum of photorealistic
images and effect. Digital painting has his preference because of
its flexibility. These are done in Satori Paint or Photoshop and
fully hand-painted very much like the traditional way. Alongside
he is also experimenting with 3D rendered backgrounds or elements
to achieve more realistic imagery.
All artwork copyright 1986 - 2008 by William Li. All
rights reserved.