About

Born May 8th, 2000, Jesse Lanham grew up in Fairfield, CT in a house hold full of entertainment. His parents, trained actors and dancers, facilitated a love for movies, storytelling, creativity and imagination. During his time in Elementary school Jesse was inspired by the late artist Ed Gould and his YouTube channel Eddsworld to draw comics about himself and his friends going on crazy adventures. The idea of portraying real life people as cartoons really intrigued Lanham. 

Jesse began drawing kids from his class, the  pastime eventually cultivated a demand for drawings in his town to a point where it only made sense to charge. 1 cartoon for $5! 

The line of customers grew outside his home town after late rapper Mac Miller posted Jesse's art on social media.  After this Jesse was a able to carve out a clientele basses across the country specifically in Atlanta. There was a demand for cover arts from singers and rappers including Snail Mail, Chris Miles and Felly. Jesse is known for creative directing multiple album roll outs for Lord Bones (2015-?) and creating album cover art for songs by 5AM and Pierre Bourne (2020-?) 

Jesse's work stretches beyond portraits and album covers; Jesse creates poster designs, shoe designs, character art, concept art, NFT designs, 3D model/ toy designs, comics, editorial illustrations and editorial covers. Jesse has had editorial pieces published in Golf Digest and has worked multiple times with  Producers of the original Space Jam for Nike and Air Jordan related merchandise and movie concept art.

Majoring in illustration Jesse graduated SVA with a bachelors degree in Fine Art . Lanham plans on continuing to expand his knowledge within the arts  and branch out to other mediums as well, all while staying true to the cartoon routes in which he found his footing. 

The goal: conquer the fine arts world until he can dominate the Earth and rule as Supreme Overlord of the entire planet. Nah, jk. But  reach for the stars am-I-right? Rip Ed Gould and Mac Miller.