Collaboration

• Effective collaborator and style synchronization with team, matching a streamlined finish with five background artists over 3 months for an animation production, resulting in 90 illustrations each.
• Responsive to feedback, text or video, altering concept art for character designs with a Netherlands-based studio over Discord, completing 4 character sheets.
• Flexible communication with 3 years experience coordinating shifts and responsibilities in event volunteer crews, ranging from 10 to 60 members, servicing hundreds of patrons.
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills, having prospected and cold-called over 60 business clients as a freelancer.

Art & Design

• Created practical designs for use across skill departments, like character and environment sheets, paint-overs, adhering to technical restrictions and solving level design issues for a game. 3D artists referenced from the drawings effectively, producing clear silhouette models.
• Attentive to detail and research, referencing historical 1920s Art Nouveau styles, fashion and architecture for character and background designs in a mystery game, using moodboards of photography and non-art inspiration sources.
• Strong draftsmanship experience with over 40 completed illustrations and projects across styles and media for 5 years; marketing art and assets, comic art, music videos, storyboards and concept art.
• Clear graphic design methodology, with bachelor’s study completed in the field and designing a tabletop game rulebook, with positive feedback on ease of legibility.

Technical literacy

• Broad knowledge of creative software and a fast learner, using Photoshop, Krita, InDesign, Blender and After Effects (see more below), and traditional media like graphite, fineliner, markers, coloured pencils and acrylics.
• Coding aptitude from developing portfolio website using Jekyll template with custom web coding and javascript.

• ROCK ME NOW - Zine Illustration
  2021
  Original illustration contribution for a charity zine (donated to Black Creatives in Sacramento), involving grunge-rock characters drawn by multiple illustrators.
• Katabatic - Comic
  2021
  Online self-published, and free-to-read, 124-page fantasy adventure graphic novella.

• Orunge - Game
  2019
  Collaboration with writer Jessica Moore on a story-board-style branching cute narrative game built in Twine.
• Snap - Comic
  2018
  Online and self-published issue, 9-page action comic.

Tools

Krita (preferred)

Affinity Design (preferred)

Affinity Publisher

InDesign

Photoshop

After Effects

Illustrator

CSS + HTML

Slack

Github

Education

• Painting Drama - Chris Oatley Academy
  2020
  Online illustration short course.
• New Enterprise Incentive Scheme - Kangan Institute
  2019
  Business building short course.
• Bachelor of Design (Communication Design) - RMIT
  2015
  Graphic and communication design course.

Talks

• Concept art online workshop - Wyndham Tech School
  2020 Nov
  A workshop about the concept art process, involving high school students with theme suggestion prompts.
• "Go Swish" - Charlie Red
  2019 Oct
  15-minute presentation for a Melbourne digital art collective about line-art improvement.
• "Self Insert Here" - Freeplay
  2019 Apr
  Hour-long online talk for an independent games festival, about artists using personas.