Walter Myers (Born 1958) was born in southern Indiana. He loved art since his childhood and for as long as he can remember he used to enjoy drawing, especially pictures of monsters and dinosaurs. At age 7, he became captivated with astronomy – this was after he came across a single volume from an encyclopedia set for children. The book featured illustrations of the planets of the Solar System. They were photo-realistic and were like nothing Myers had ever seen before. A friend also had a book with whimsical illustrations by Chesley Bonestell, a space artist. The illustrations were of astronauts walking the surface of a moon of Saturn. To Myers that was the most stunning scenario he could imagine. Over the next few years he made hundreds of pencil drawings of space art. He became interested in realism in space art, and preferred science-based and objective photorealism to expressionism.
His interest in space exploration was heightened in 2001 when he had a rare opportunity to see the Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, being released in the original three-projector Cinerama format. He also developed an appreciation for the artistic of ethereal wildernesses. Today, his sole medium is computer graphics, and he creates on standard desktop computers. Before he discovered computer graphics, Myers worked in acrylics, pencil, water colors and oil paints. While some artists flourish in these traditional mediums, he personally never found them suitable to the photorealistic space art he pursued. Currently residing in the Chicago area, he produces eye-catching art that many viewer feel compelled to stand and have a second look, more so the framed Walter Myers art.
