By day she is a computer programmer, by night she scribbles away at her desk to conjure creatures and mythical lands from her imagination. Stephanie Pui-Mun Law currently lives in California, and has been doing freelance illustration and graphics since 1996. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998 with a double BA degree in Fine Arts and Computer Science. Stephanie has worked with Wizards of the Coast (Magic: the Gathering CCG, Forgotten Realms), Precedence Entertainment (Wheel of Time CCG, Rifts CCG), HarperCollins, Talislanta, and Black Knight Games, to name a few. While expanding her gallery of personal work, she also does character portraits for roleplayers, and other random requests.

Most of her inspiration comes from mythology and legend, ranging through various cultures -- Roma (Gypsy), Celtic, Greek, Roman, Indian, and Chinese. It began with an early interest in Greek and Roman mythology, and as she grew older, she began to explore tales of other cultures, beginning with a desire to know more about the culture of her own background, the Chinese. She has also been greatly influenced by the art of the Impressionists, Pre-Raphaelites, and Surrealists, along with current popular fantasy artists. What she tries to convey with her art is not simply fantasy, but the fantastic, the sense of wonder, and that which is sacred.

As far as technique goes, her usual media include pencil, pen & ink, intaglio printing, watercolor, acrylic, and digital (Photoshop). The digital pieces consist of an initial pencil or ink sketch that she scans into the computer, then paints onto using Photoshop or Freehand. Contrary to what some may assume, "digital painting" does not mean the pieces are "rendered" or created using filters, but are painted as with any traditional media. The difference being that the brush happens to be an electronic, pressure-sensitive stylus, and the canvas a screen.

In addition to painting into the wee hours of the night, Stephanie dances Flamenco at any spare moment, plays piano, and burrows through her books like a true bookworm. Influences from her music and dance are also scattered through her art, for she finds inspiration for art and images in everything around her.

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