EDUCATION
Bachelors of Fine Art in Sequential Art
Savannah College of Art & Design
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Self Employed (2010 – Present)
Artist (Freelance)
- Design and deliver art to clients according to client specifications
- Working under fast-paced deadlines
- Illustration, comics, character design
- Producing prints on art quality stock and mailing them to clients
- Maintaining a table at conventions, selling prints, and interfacing with fans
- Fulfilling and shipping web orders for prints, postcards, and other merchandise on a weekly basis
Nerd Rage (2010 -2017)
Artist, Writer, Web & Social Media Management
- Writing and drawing comics based on pop culture and current events
- New comics ran on a weekly schedule
- Over 300 comics drawn
- Maintaining web site, blog, and social media accounts
- Facebook page rapidly grew, celebrating 3000, 4000, and 5000 ‘likes’ in 2017
- One of 10 comics republished weekly in Kotaku’s Sunday Comics
- Regularly voted to the front pages of Reddit
Dorkly & Collegehumor (2012 -2018)
Illustrator, Colorist, Letterer, Writer
- Collaborating with staff writers and editors to turn scripts into illustrations for articles and comics
- Meeting varied and rapidly-changing deadlines
- Delivering high resolution digital assets
- Working with editors on requested changes and alterations
- Writer and script doctor
- Hundreds of completed comic strips reposted and upvoted weekly on sites like Reddit and Imgur
Collegehumor Dropout (2017 – 2019)
Illustrator, Colorist, Letterer
- Artist and designer for Collegehumor original series ‘The Legend of Jared‘
- Pioneering swipe-to-view comics on premier subscription platform
- Six full issues originally exclusive through Dropout, now available on Webtoon
Live With Yourself (2020 – Present)
Line art & Illustration
- Collaborating on Webtoon series ‘Live With Yourself‘
- Originally created by Shen, writing and pencils by Dave Mercier
- New episodes twice a week
Other Work & Experiences
- Character designer and lead artist for pitches to Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.
- Logo, card design, and templates for Game Night Productions card game Shadowrift.
- Character and asset design for VR game Riley Short: Analog Boy.
- Character and asset design for animated Marvel tl;dr episodes Daredevil: Yellow and Runaways for Marvel Entertainment
- Character designer for 428k-follower account Can You Pet The Dog on Twitter and Steam
- Cover art, writing, and pages for Boom Studio’s and Cartoon Network’s Regular Show
- Shirt design in vector format for clients and print-on-demand services
- Storyboard artist for USC graduate film.
- Designed print-quality logos, illustrations, and shirt designs for businesses, websites, and organizations all across the country.
Additional Skills
- Illustrating and coloring in Adobe Photoshop
- Illustrating and coloring in Clip Studio Paint
- Comics lettering, logo work, and graphic design in Adobe Illustrator
- Optimizing color space and utilizing ICC profiles for work in print or digital distribution