In 1991, David Byrd took the position of Senior Illustrator at Warner Bros. Creative Services, which he held for exactly 11 years • Besides creating illustrations, backgrounds and style guides for all the Looney Tunes & Hannah-Barbera characters, David got to create commemorative plates for the Franklin Mint, souvenir posters for the Batman series of films, and style guides for feature films such as Space Jam and The Wizard of Oz, television shows such as Friends and Scooby Doo, and the Cartoon Network • His department was responsible for the Bugs Bunny postage stamp—the first cartoon character on a U.S. stamp—and all the subsequent Looney Tunes stamps • During his final three years at Warners, David worked on the Masterpiece style guide, creating a series of paintings based on originals by Degas, Picasso, Magritte, and Toulouse-Lautrec, among others • But most of that three years was spent working on the Harry Potter style guides, for which David did hundreds of drawings of everything from Diagon Alley to the Hippogriff • The home that he shared for 12 years in Beachwood Canyon in the Hollywood Hills with his partner Joe and their dogs, Bernhard, Jasper and Chloe, appeared in Metropolitan Home and Sunset magazines during the 1990s • They presently live in a 1928 Spanish-style house in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, that is a continuing Art Project in itself, and where they have their basement studio and work on projects separately and together ❦