About The Artist
Chenaniah Ecker is a young, self taught, independent illustrator and artist who also goes by the
online handle "TheVelveteenArtist"
She does freelance work in illustrations, design, and portraits from the comfort of her home in southern Alberta Canada.
She prides herself in being able to do various types of work and style such as: traditional
and digital paintings, illustrations, portraits, decorative and advertisement murals,
realism, sketching, inks, and polymer clay.
She has had a creative eye since childhood making art a favorite and frequent lifelong hobby up until mid 2017, when she began pursuing a career in art, taking her first commissions and studying art online.
Since then she has been actively working hard to hone, and develop her skills in both the digital
and traditional art world.
She has always harbored a strong love and interest for illustrated books and animated film and television.
Her long term goal is to write and illustrate her own graphic novel series, and become successful in
illustration, and the fields of visual entertainment such as: visual development, storyboarding, and character design.