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Illustrator David Habben and the Bridget Vanderpuff series

The stereotypical paradigm for visual artists involves a solitary creative existence, one where the artist is alone in a studio with nothing but blank paper or canvas and a personal vision to bring to life.

The stereotypical paradigm for visual artists involves a solitary creative existence, one where the artist is alone in a studio with nothing but blank paper or canvas and a personal vision to bring to life. But the reality can be quite different when you're an illustrator—though according to local artist David Habben, that doesn't make the work any less fulfilling.

An alumnus of art programs at both the University of Utah and Brigham Young University, Habben traces his artistic origin story to growing up in a home with a mother who was an elementary school librarian.

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