Shropshire artist Brandon wins trip to Hollywood
There aren't many 20 year olds from Shropshire getting ready to jet out to Hollywood to be presented an award at a glamorous awards ceremony.
But that's exactly what artist Brandon Knight has to look forward to after being named the winner of the 2016 Illustrators of the Future Contest.
Brandon, who lives in Dothill, Telford, and is currently in his third year of a visual communication degree at Wolverhampton University, was chosen as the winner from a group of eight finalists for three of his drawings.
It earned him a cash prize, a trip to Hollywood for a week-long intensive workshop, an Oscars-style awards ceremony which draws in excess of one thousand attendees, as well as having his winning illustrations published in the annual bestseller, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future.
Brandon found out about the contest through friends who had previously entered the writing side of the competition.
He said: "It is cool, I get to go to Hollywood so it is really exciting.
"I graduate this year so hopefully this will get things kick-started.
"All the images are my own projects or were done for a book at university.
"I read a lot so a lot of my ideas come from that."
The contest, in its 32nd year, was first started in 1982 by L. Ron Hubbard, best known as the founder of Scientology, after he wrote his novel Battlefield Earth.
