Illustrator Sean Donnan works in diverse techniques but has a particular fondness for digital art. He graduated from Nantucket High School in 2007, the same year he received the Nantucket Arts Council Scholarship. In 2010 he received the council’s Johnson Scholarship. He graduated from UMass Dartmouth three years ago with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Sean applied his grant funds directly toward his college tuition. Since 2011, he has expanded his artistic knowledge into freelance work and has been producing a volume of digitally rendered prints, which he sells at Japanese animation conventions. He has also developed his portfolio in pursuit of either a job as a staff commercial illustrator or in independent commissions. Sean continues to building his portfolio of Japanese mythological creatures, which he hopes to market for projects such as video games or video programs. He is also learning wood block printing.



Sean attributes most of his efforts and successes to furthering his arts education, something that would have been far more difficult without the support of scholarships.