Sam Ricks

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Illustrator/Designer/Writer
Location Sandy, UT, United States
Introduction Draw, draw, draw. Teach, design, draw.
Interests Anything that has to do with art. Running, reading, writing, soccer. Critiquing movies. Watching movie commentary. Watching Pixar movie commentary. Reading Calvin and Hobbes. Spending time with my wife. Playing with my kids. Studying scriptures. Sitting in libraries. Hiking, camping, being alone. Visiting Winslow. Going to church. Eating lasagna (and lots of it).
Favorite Movies Shadowlands, Amazing Grace, A Man For All Seasons, Spirited Away (for the art, not the story), Star Wars, Gandhi, Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams", Up, Ratatouille, Wall-E, Toy Story, A Bug's Life, The Prince of Egypt, The Scarlet and the Black. The first five minutes of: Kung Fu Panda, Dinosaur, and A Touch of Evil. Fantasia 2000, Fiddler on the Roof, Raise the Red Lantern, Not One Less, The Road Home, Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles, To Kill a Mockingbird. Good Night and Good Luck.
Favorite Music John Williams, Stravinsky, Thomas Newman, Brahms, Bach, Debussy, Nickel Creek, some Coldplay.
Favorite Books Crime and Punishment. War and Peace. Anna Karenina. The Brothers Karamazov. The Chosen. The Stinky Cheese Man. Happy Hockey Family. John, Paul, George, and Ben. Leonardo the Terrible Monster. Any "Art of..." books. The Chronicles of Narnia. 1776. John Adams.