Luke R. Harper is an artist and animator from Houston, Texas, and he lives in New York City.  He loves drawing, and his parents say his first drawing was Thomas the Tank Engine in 3/4 perspective on the back of a diner menu when he was two years old.  Luke also loves the history of natural philosophy that accompanies drawing, and animation’s inheritance in the worldwide legacy of art, which are concepts entwined by literature; and working out is his hobby.

School of Visual Arts, 2019—2023
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Major in Animation (Silas H. Rhodes Scholarship)

The University of Texas at Austin, 2013—2017
Bachelor of Arts
Majors in History, English; Minor in Art History (Ampla cum Laude)

The animatic for DELTA DESTINY— Nikolaos, a villain aspiring to be the greatest thief in the world by usurping the throne of his former boss, Odenn Oceanic, unexpectedly encounters a damsel in distress during his coup d’état: the kidnapped heiress Ilex Clarice, whose heart becomes the delta of his destiny.

These models held their poses for five to twenty minutes, and my ballpoint-pen drawings of them are posted in the order of creation.

I drew these portraits of my friends because I was inspired by my finding of the book The Natural Way to Draw by Kimon Nicolaïdes.

HEADCANNON — protagonist illustrations ︎

2025

These 2.5 character illustrations of Headcannon and Professor J, the protagonists of the HEADCANNON Opening, I drew and colored using the same process with which I animated them in Toon Boom.