Bente Schlick is an illustrator & designer born in Northern Germany in September 1986. After finishing school she worked at an advertising agency for a few months until she started studying Illustration & Design. She started painting digital in 2005 having mainly worked with watercolor, gouache and (colored) pencil before.
At age 23 she graduated from art school and since then works full time as a freelancer in her choosen hometown Hamburg.
Bente has worked for a number of art and computer magazines, book publishers and clients in the games & advertising industry.
Her main scope of work are fantasy themes; however, she has also done non-fictional work (including storyboards for films, comic, children’s book illustrations and nature illustrations).
She is inspired by legends, myths, poems, fantasy stories, music and likes authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, J.R.R Tolkien and Phillip Pulman.
Moreover she loves other fantasy-artists like Alan Lee, John Howe, Howard D. Johnson, Brian Froud and old master painters like William Bouguereau, Hans Zaztka and John W. Waterhouse.
Bente’s artwork also has been licensed on a wide range of products such as jigsaw, t-shirt, postcards, notebooks, posters, calendars and cross stitch designs.
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