![]() ![]() He also was the development artist for DreamWorks’ 2002 Academy-Award nominated animated feature, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. ![]() This assignment lead to choreographer-actress Debbie Allen enlisting him to contribute illustrations to her children’s book, Amistad:“Give Us Free” (1997), co-authored with Steven Spielberg and Maya Angelou. Soon after graduation and an internship at the Society of Illustrators Nelson was offered an assignment from DreamWorks to do conceptual artwork for the motion picture Amistad. ![]() With the assistance of a scholarship, he initially studied architecture but after his first semester he switched his major to illustration and graduated with honors and a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 1996 from Pratt, the same year he married Keara Ginneh Ricks. Painting in oils since age 16, he won several art competitions. He then attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey and then in Southern California, Nelson was mentored by an uncle who was an experienced artist, and instruction from an art teacher at Crawford High School in San Diego. Both parents possessed some artistic ability, but it was primarily his mother who encouraged his talent early on. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 15, 1974, the son of Lenwood Melvin Nelson, a former wrestling coach and Howard University graduate and Emily Diane-Gunter, a telecommunications engineer and motivational speaker. Nelson is one of the premier illustrators in the United States. ![]()
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