Ricardo Sanabria

Ricardo Sanabria was born in the city of Caracas on August 4, 1978. From a very young age he was interested in drawing and at the initiative of his mother, he began to receive painting and basic drawing classes in the Caracas parish of El Valle under the tutelage of the Professor Onice Soza. At the age of 14, he entered the Lopez & Acosta Comics School in the vicinity of Parque Carabobo in the capital city, and it is here that he first explored comics and illustration.

Frank Frazetta, Simon Bisley, Jean Giraud (MOEBIUS), Paolo Serpieri, Albert Uderzo, Will Eisner; they opened the mind of this young man, becoming his greatest references at that time. Since then, Sanabria has been constantly exploring and playing with different illustration styles and techniques; devoting himself mostly to digital art but with the principles and fundamentals of traditional art. 

Initially, he worked as an assistant art director at the JWT advertising agency in Caracas and received his first jobs as an illustrator for Storyboards. Along the way, he began to work as an illustrator in the children's magazine "La Cadena Tricolor" and later as an infographic designer in different media. At the same time, he never stopped creating and working for different publishers as a freelance illustrator.

In 2015 he won the Pedro Leon Zapata Prize awarded by the newspaper El Nacional as the best Cartoonist, then decided to emigrate to the US in search of new horizons for his family and explore the Anglo market. He has exhibited his work in New York, Las Vegas and Miami. His evolution as an artist is remarkable, carrying today the pseudonym SanabriArt. He is currently working on different personal projects, one of them is "G.O.A.T" that portrays, under his undeniable style, different personalities from the sports world that changed the sport forever.