Experience
2026 - Present
Art Director
2020 - Present
Comic Artist
2019 - Present
Freelance Merch Designer
2017 - Present
Freelance Character Designer
July 2019 - December 2019
Comic Artist & Character Designer
2026 - Present
Art Director
- Responsible for art director duties with nonprofit organization DCAZ (Duval Comics & Zines Fest)
- Oversee and approve all visual elements of marketing and merchandise
- Create new designs for merchandise and advertising
- Gather and implement feedback to bring designs to final
- Give direction and feedback to fest poster artist and make formatting and design edits to provided assets as needed
- Communicate with poster artist to create and edit multipurpose assets
- Prepare files for screen printing
- Attend and contribute to meetings to discuss visual direction of the festival
- Assign and communicate deadlines and timelines for various stages of visual assets
- Design and create signage for day-of event needs
- Design and create social media graphics
2020 - Present
Comic Artist
- Responsible for pencils and inks for the webcomic Funny Farm by Ryan Smith
- Design iterations of existing characters as needed by the script
- Design props, locations, and new characters as needed by the script
- Communicate with the writer and incorporate given feedback to best convey the story
2019 - Present
Freelance Merch Designer
- Communicate with record labels and independent bands to design shirts, posters, & other merch
- Design costumes and props for music videos
- Illustrated trading cards
- Illustrated a 24x24 fold-out map for a vinyl release
- Designed mock-ups for potential album covers
2017 - Present
Freelance Character Designer
- Designed mascots for a music festival, SPI Fest, to be used on merchandise and marketing materials
- Communicate with private clients to design fantasy RPG characters based on varying levels of description and guidance
- Incorporate notes and guidance from client to make edits before reaching a final design
July 2019 - December 2019
Comic Artist & Character Designer
- Illustrated a 6 page comic for the Wayward Kindred anthology published by TO Comix Press
- Designed characters based on the needs of the script, incorporating feedback with editors to reach the final designs
- Responsible for thumbs, pencils, inks, and color for each page
- Communicated closely with editors to fulfill the needs of the script and convey the story
- Completed all work within given deadlines
