Bio
Miranda Meeks is a professional illustrator known for her haunting and ethereal digital illustrations. The primary focus of her work centers around the idea that beauty and darkness can weave together to form an intriguing narrative. She captures moments of stillness and silence, often evoking a melancholic mood or a feeling of subtle tension. Depicting women with strength and power is a recurring theme, as she strives to present images that help to empower women and girls to feel that same sense of strength. Soft overcast lighting, fluid elements, and delicate gradients are also featured prominently in her work, which intensifies the atmosphere of otherworldliness and solitude.
Inspired by darker films from directors such as Tim Burton and M. Night Shyamalan, Miranda seeks outside sources of creativity which convey similar themes of darkness and soft beauty. In elementary school, she discovered the picture book The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg. The stories which accompanied the enigmatic pictures influenced her perception of how stories can be told, and continue to influence her work today. She also finds inspiration from other fields like graphic design and fine art, which she threads back into her own work.
Miranda graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts and an emphasis in Illustration. Her work has been recognized in annual competition publications like Spectrum and American Illustration, as well as nominated for multiple Chesley Awards. She won the Rising Star award in 2018, an award created by Colin and Kristine Poole to celebrate the efforts of artists early in their career who show promise and potential. Her freelance work focuses primarily on book covers, usually for a YA audience.
She currently works from her home in Utah where she lives with her husband and two children.
FAQs
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An open edition (OE) print is a series of prints that are not limited in the edition size. They will be indefinitely available and can be either printed on canvas or paper. Mine are printed on a 120lb stock.
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We take pride in a good product, and sometimes things get damaged, lost, or delayed during shipping. If your item is damaged during shipping, we will replace that item once, free of charge. For more details on what to do when this occurs, click Here.
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No. Unfortunately at the moment I am not doing personal / private commissions.
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This is a tricky one. I have done interviews, but it is very dependent upon my availability. Please contact me via email with a good description of what is needed.
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Not currently. I am still pretty new to the Magic scene and am not to that point yet.
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I am selling AP’s, but currently they are only sold at shows. I also sell show special AP sketches where I choose the sketch, and release a few each show day I am not doing any commission sketches at this time.
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Card signatures used to be only available at conventions. As I have started doing more art for Magic the Gathering the request has became larger. To make it possible for those unable to make it to the conventions, I have set up the ability to send them to me for signatures. Go to the store, or click the link to go there.
CLIENTS
Recognition
2018 Rising Star Award
Spectrum 21
Spectrum 22
Spectrum 23
Spectrum 24
Spectrum 25
American Illustration 32
Society of Illustrations 2013 Student Competition,
Nominated for a 2017 and 2018 Chesley Award