Work Experience:

12+ years freelance illustrator, artist, and graphic designer for businesses and individuals creating:

- Digital artwork and illustrations

- Airbrush and Custom Painting: Motorcycles, Automobiles, Helmets, Walls, etc

- Graphic Design: Business Marketing Products, Advertisements, Logos, and Signs

- Digital Renderings

- Website Design

- Flash Animations

4 years as a staff artist providing artwork for a top national custom painting company, as well as designing the company’s advertisements, graphics, and website

2 years as an artist manager overseeing 10 staff artists, providing artistic direction for various projects and responsible for increased efficiency while maintaining high quality

Summary of Qualifications:

Software and Computer Experience:

Adobe Creative Suite - CS4

- Photoshop: digital painting, complex layering, and color correction

- Illustrator: logos, renderings, and other vector based graphics

- Wacom Intuos 3 drawing pad with pen and airbrush tools

- Dreamweaver: web design and content

- Flash: animated text, images, and graphics

- Adobe Acrobat Pro: assemble files into PDF documents.

- Indesign: print layouts

- Microsoft office applications

Thorough understanding of defining color space RGB, CMYK etc. and the appropriate uses of each for print or web applications.

Thorough understanding of defining a document or image attributes and resolution for various applications.

12+ years creating custom artwork using various mediums and techniques including:

- Digital Art - Photoshop and Illustrator

- Airbrush

- Painting

- Pen/Pencil

- Pinstriping

Large format printing, ICC profiles, and appropriate equipment calibration for accurate color output

Vinyl lettering creation, plotting, and application for automobile signage and custom painting applications

References:

Past and current client references are available on request .

Education:

Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts Adams State College, Alamosa, CO

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