Sandra Chang-Adair is a self-taught artist that is passionate about delineating the beauty of the human form. She embraces fantasy art, steampunk and eroticism in her paintings. In her earlier work, she enjoyed creating powerful, domineering women, often subjugating their male counterparts. Her recent characters are depicted as fairies, mermaids, knights, heroines and mythical characters in the steam punk genre. She loves interjecting subtle humor in her vignettes (often sneaking in her beloved dogs). Her medium of choice is digital, drawing from scratch and using Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. She also loves oils, acrylics and watercolors.

Sandra graduated from Columbia College in New York City and has a bachelors of art in Computer Science. She wanted to be an artist ever since she was a little child, but her domineering traditional Chinese parents sent her to an Engineering School. In the second year, she transferred to the Liberal Arts College. Her programming skills have majorly deteriorated since school and she can barely work in html.

Sandra counts among her influences the Pre-Rapahelite Artists: John William Waterhouse, John Everett Millais; Fantasy Illustrators: Boris Vallejo, Rowena and Frank Frazetta; Japanese Fantasy Artists: Yoshitaka Amano and Masamune Shirow; Comic Book Artists: Wendy Pini, Frank Miller and George Perez.

Sandra is a HUGE fan of Michael Jackson, the books of Alexandre Dumas and Ayn Rand. Sandra loves sci-fi, fantasy and martial arts films. Sandra's favorite movies are the original "Star Wars" trilogy, The Three Musketeers (1973) and The Four Musketeers (1974), Legend of the Drunken Master II (Jackie Chan), Fist of the Legend (Jet Li), Enter the Dragon (Bruce Lee), the first Matrix and the LOTR Trilogy.

When Sandra is not drawing or painting, she can be found at kung fu. She has been practicing martial arts since 1994. She has a second degree blackbelt in Budoshin Ju Jitsu, a blacksash in Northern Eagle Claw, certificates in Traditional Kung Fu and Traditional Kung Fu Weapons at Beijing Kung-Fu and Tai-Chi Academy. She is currently studying at Shaolin Kung Fu Chan in Las Vegas with a 32nd generation Shaolin Monk. Sandra lives in Las Vegas with her husband, Dustin Adair, a mobile app game developer and two dogs, a sheltie named Ripley and Freckles the Australian Shepherd Mix.

Sandra also has another Etsy Store, one that sells her cartoon kawaii brand, Banzai Chicks. Banzai Chicks is a group of martial arts girl and their mascots that battle evil. Check out the handmade jewelry and tees at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/banzaichicks