Graphic Designer / Illustrator

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Henderson, NV *****

Cell: 702-***-****

PROFILE

Illustrative Designer with more than twenty years of illustration experience traditional and digital. Extensive Experience in: Design and Layout, Logo Creations, Character Design, Story Based Illustration, Sequential Illustration for Comics, Children Books and Storyboards, Package Designs, 3D Illustration

Computer Skills Include: Mac and Windows Platform,

Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3,

Adobe Indesign CS3, Adobe Acrobat CS3, Corel Painter X and Sketch book pro 2.

3D Software Includes: Strata 3Dpro, Electricimage Universe 5.0

and Cinema 4D 10.

Nine years working as an instructor for art and design in the Las Vegas and Henderson areas. Background includes drawing, sculpting, painting, mixed media and computer design. Developing and implementing a teaching curriculum for kids of various ages, concentrating in drawing, cartooning, color theory and computer graphics.

For the past fifteen years, I ran my home base Graphic and Illustration Studio, Dace Studio. My List of clients include:

Nevada Precast Stone

Abaddon Comics

Troy Baker; Attorney at Law

V2 Creative Advertising

Health Focus Medical Distributors

Blue Soul Recording Studio

Cool Weather Apparel Design

Bottom Construction Company

Mass Media Jan Paul Koch; Attorney at Law Starlight Graphics City of Las Vegas

Digital Dog Interactive

Create a Book

This is just a list of some of the Companies and individuals I have Illustrated and designed for through my Studio. Some samples of my work may be seen at: www.daviddaceartist.com

EXPERIENCE

Digital Dog interactive, 2008 Freelance

Created 3d models for the online kids game, Uville: virtual world.

Web site: www.myuville.com

International Academy of Design & Technology, 2004 - 2008

Department Chair of the Visual Communication Department

Department Chair of the Game Design Department

Management Position, supervised a staff of 15 instructors.

Developed and implemented the game design department.

Created curriculums and syllabi’s and incorporated latest technology into programs. Researched and appropriated books for each quarter. Held seminars for instructors to further their knowledge. Academic advising with each student, as well as career assistance. Assembled advisory board for each program. Conducted quarterly meeting with board and instructors. Taught a number of classes each quarter along with administrative duties.

City of Las Vegas - 1995 – 2006 (part time)

Graphic design troubleshooter for leisure and cultural departments.

West Las Vegas Cultural Center, Reed Whipple Art Center

Instructor of cartooning and comic book drawing, plan curriculum that will challenge the imagination and drawing skills of kids in secondary education. Teaching the fundamentals of drawing the human figure either realistically or cartoon. Adult Classes in drawing and painting. Created a mural for the Las Vegas centennial celebration.

Boys and Girls Club of Las Vegas 5/98 - 8/03

Art Therapist/Artist in Residence

Work with at risk adolescence within a juvenile facility.

Combine various art mediums to develop an art therapy

program.

Royal Pacific, Las Vegas, Nevada 1/97- 4/98

Graphic Designer

Design T-shirts using Mac computer plus conventional means,

color separation production and project planning.

Casino Data Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada 4/96 - 1/97

Graphic Designer

Created glass designs for hotels and casinos.

M&M Robotics, Las Vegas, Nevada 1996-97 (Part Time)

Designed logo, business cards, video cassette designs,

Black and white illustrations.

Marvel and DC Comics, 1993-1996 free lance

Created page break downs for Steve Carr and Daryl Skelton on numerous books from Green Lantern to Silver Sable. One page full illustration for the big book of urban legends published by Piranha Press.

Spilled Ink Studio, Green Valley, Nevada 95-99

(Part Time)

Devised comic book characters, created studio and comic

book logo, illustrated comic book, computer lettered book,

created business cards.

Winchester Community Center - 1993 - 1998 (Part Time)

Drawing instructor, devise and implement curriculum that includes but is not limited to cartooning, comic book, and realistic drawing, for kids in secondary education.

Desert Decor, Las Vegas, Nevada 1990-1996

Created window designs, signs, displays and advertising materials.

Martin Luther King N.A.T.O. Cultural Art Center Eerie,

Pennsylvania, summer 1984, 1985 Developed curriculum for children in a summer camp program that included painting, drawing, sculpting, and pottery. Advised instructors of proper implementation of art program.

Oversaw gallery scheduling and designed graphics for gallery use.

EDUCATION

Undergraduate:

Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi B.A. degree 1989 Concentration in painting, sculptor and mixed media, focusing on Graphic Design and commercial illustration. Twenty hours of art education K-12 including Child development and Human behavior to explore art as a tool for therapy.

Extra Curricula Activates include:

President of Athenian Art Club, 2 years President of Alpha-Phi-Omega service fraternity inc. 3 years Member of the Mississippi Art Society, Treasurer of the Optimist Club

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