Savark Dicupé
Artist•Designer•Storyteller
therealsavarkdicupe@gmail.com
Website: www.savark.com
Skills
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe In Design, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Office, Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook, Mac & Windows OS
Strong Written and Verbal Skills, Intermediate Spanish
Who am I?
I'm a versatile, multi-talented artist and designer passionate about cartooning, character design, concept art, illustration, and storyboarding. I create marketable artwork, tailored to your needs, to creatively communicate ideas, emotions, feelings, sensations, and facts.
What I do
Illustration•Graphics•Cartooning•Character and prop design•Intellectual property development•Storyboards/Sequential art•Concept art •Advertising comps, Mock-up and packaging illustrations •Logo design•Brand Identity/Style Guides•Digital coloring and Photo manipulation•Costume fabrication and detailing
Work History
Freelance Artist/Designer/Cartoonist, New York City 7/2001 – Present
• Omnicom Media Group – Bose, Hasbro, Warner Bros., Lil Wayne, Mountain Dew, Converse - Digitally illustrated/designed books, packaging & advertising comps & storyboards ‘13/’14
• NBC's Today Show '03, '05 & '06 – Painted/crafted Halloween costume worn by anchors
• Robert F. Kennedy's WATERKEEPER Alliance - Co-Creator/Illustrator - Quarterly adventure comic strip for nationally distributed environmental magazine
• Dodger Costumes - Costume Painter for 4 tour productions of CATS
• Flickerlab – Background artists – animated, Hooked on Phonics: Cinderelephant: http://youtu.be/AvDdVUb4zSA
• Digital Coloring for various comic book properties
• Urban Box Office - Background artist for animated short & illustration for CD cover
• SS+K - Obama 2012 – Campaign art – “Our Work is Not Done”, storyboards and advertising comps for various clients
• Mada Design - Warner Bros. - The Dark Knight – Style guide art and designs
• Finalist for the CLEA 2010 Custom Design Contest.
Mada Design, New York City 3/2006 – 3/2010
Freelance Digital Illustrator
• Photo retouching/manipulation/graphics/mock-up illustrations/ final packaging art/digital coloring
• Created style guide designs and artwork for toy and entertainment licenses
• Production work and retouching for trading cards
• Created end paper/cover artwork for fiction and non-fiction novels - mixed media
• Created animated logos for websites using Adobe Flash
• Logo/motion graphics animation
Starlight Runner Entertainment, New York City 10/2000 –7/2001
Lead Artist
• Created images from concept to finished art, Web site and prop designs, characters, animation, intellectual property bibles, and presentations for in-house properties and clients
• Coordinated freelancers to work in tandem with in-house graphics team and clients
• Worked directly with president to develop interactive media characters and worlds
• Designed props, costumes and other production designs for live action film shoots
• Represented company at trade shows.
Urban Box Office Network, New York City 2/2000 - 10/2000
Art Director of Development
• Managed art and design for Othervision.com animation division, tripling productivity
• Assisted VP of Development and lead team of creatives in development of properties
• Designed and animated for flagship property Bulletproof Diva, featured on VH1
• Created animation, logo designs, interface and presentations for web based programming
Freelance Colorist/Illustrator/PA/Wardrobe, New York City 5/1998 – 2/2000
• Marvel Comics - Freelance Colorist
• Astoria the Movie and Red Light August (indie feature) - Wardrobe and production assistant
• Chaos! Comics - Digital Coloring
• Starlight Runner Graphics – Cartooning character design and Illustration
• Instructed seminar on pioneering the emerging field of digital coloring for comic books
• Represented Starlight Runner Graphics at Sundance Film Festival
Atomic Paintbrush, New York City 5/1996 - 5/1998
Art Director
• Director of the biggest comic book coloring house in the industry serving Marvel Comics, Broadway Comics, DC Comics, Valiant/Acclaim Comics & CHAOS!™ Comics
• Created digital coloring, illustration, picture retouching and other services to clients
• Communicated with clients to meet deadlines and project goals
• Trained, coordinated staff and freelancers in coloring procedure utilizing Adobe Photoshop
Education
• Kingsborough Community College – A.A.S. in Graphics & Illustration 2013 - present
• School of Visual Arts - Continuing education Landscape Drawing and Acrylic Painting 1998
• High School of Art and Design – Graduate – Cartooning 1993
Volunteer
FACES Maimonides Theatre Network for Teens 1984-1993
• Responsible for the overall design and execution of two FACES playbills
• Performed scenes depicting issues affecting teens in the New York City & tri-state area
• Attended weekly rehearsals as a peer educator and performer
• Performed Administrative duties such as answering phone calls and light filing
Trevor Project – Performed in 3 fundraiser events 2012,13,14
Ali Forney Center - created themed artwork for fundraiser auction 2012