Ken McGhee

Traditional & Vector Illustration | Communication Design

Oakland, CA Land: 510-***-**** Cell | Voice: 510-***-**** email: sn4ebz@r.postjobfree.com

Communication Design work samples:

http://www.creativeshake.com/kensfunkyart RECENT HIGHLIGHTS Everett & Jones Barbeque, Oakland, CA Graphic Designer and Traditional | Vector Illustrator "GET on the BUS" January 2009 Historic Inaugural Bus Trip to Washington, DC

Currently, as an Art Consultant with satellite

Community Garden, Antiques and Gift Shop project:

Charcoal Park, Fruitvale, Oakland, CA

Eji Oto Design, Oakland, CA Traditional, digital comp | final art for Bay Area Rapid Transit "BART Tickets to Go"

Focus Puller, Los Angeles, CA

Traditional main title sequence final art

for the film: "Auto Focus" Poor Magazine, San Francisco, CA Traditional and digital final art | design for "The Poverty Hero" A Visual/ Literary Art Anthology EXPERIENCE 02/05/1992 - Present Graphic Designer/ Illustrator 05/14/1986 - 05/18/1990 United States Navy (Honorably discharged) Illustrator Draftsman DM2 USS Midway CV-41 (Homeport: Yokosuka, Japan) I am a native Californian who since 1992 works on a wide variety of creative projects both in Bonn, Germany, and now since 1997 in The San Francisco Bay Area. COMPUTER SKILLS Mac/PC CS3: Illustrator, Photoshop, Image Ready, Acrobat, InDesign, Freehand, Coreldraw, Quark, Pagemaker, Windows

TRADITIONAL SKILLS storyboard, comp, final art, energetic, line, stylistic, bold, brush, photoreal, character development, packaging, layout, thumbnail, colorful, cartoon, painterly texture, animation, figure, auto, children, women, men, aircraft, architecture, animals, food, whimsical, loose, tight, painterly, narrative, representational, abstract FORMAL EDUCATION Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA Major: Art Direction Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI Major:Communication Design/ Illustration