Background
In the 1970s, Orbik and his mother moved to Douglas County, Nevada.
In the 1970s, Orbik and his mother moved to Douglas County, Nevada.
He studied art at the California Art Institute then located in Encino, later Calabasas, California, and now located in Westlake Village.
He is a 1981 graduate of Douglas High School in Minden, Nevada. Orbik eventually took over the classes when Fixler retired from teaching and taught figure drawing after returning from an extended hiatus. He most recently worked on a series of paperback covers for the Hard Case Crime series of novels.
Orbik resided in Van Nuys, California.
He died on May 11, 2015 of cancer.