Cody Sams is an artist, musician, and graphic designer who co-designed and co-produced the SRVIVR Clothing brand. With his wife Kristi and their two furry babies, Zinc and Maggie, Cody lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.

He first became interested in drawing when he discovered comic books at a young age, but it didn’t fully get his attention until his later art classes exposed him to American pop artists such Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Keith Herring. His preferred methods, pointillism and stippling, stem from his affinity to the Ben-Day dot printing utilized in Silver Age comic books and much of Lichtenstein’s work.

Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. It relies on the ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to blend the color spots into a fuller range of tones. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from impressionism.

The term “pointillism” was coined by art critics in the late 1880s to ridicule the works of these artists and is now used without its earlier mocking connotation. It is a technique with few serious practitioners today, and is notably seen in the works of Seurat, Signac and Cross.

You can find a growing gallery of Cody’s work by clicking on the hummingbird image.