Jason Ibarra
15212 Apricot Lane, North Potomac, MD, 20878
Phone : 301-785-9624 * E-mail : uponthoufaircat@gmail.com * Website : www.burritochan.net

Illustrator / Concept Artist / Fine Artist / Musician
Offering 7+ years experience in the Arts Industry

Highly motivated and creative illustrator, concept artist and musician with 3+ years experience in the field of sequential art, electronic entertainment and publishing with Reverge Labs LLC, renowned Toronto-based art studio Udon Entertainment and established American comic book publisher Image Comics. Varied mixed-media artist with 7+ years experience in the field of fine arts. Self-published musician and audio engineer with 12+ years experience with audio design suites and audio production. Areas of expertise include :

- Photoshop versions 7 through CS4
- Traditional Media Including Graphite, Ink, Acrylic Paint, Watercolor
- Adobe Audition
- DigiDesign's Pro Tools

Qualifications Summary

- Completed varied projects for various clients ranging from environment design, illustration, character design and sequential art in multiple styles and mediums.
- Proficient in computer-aided art and design.
- Well organized hard-worker with a willingness to tackle new projects and clients with a quick turnaround.
- Experience working with children.

Education :

- Savannah College of Art & Design, September 2002 - January 2005
- Studied Graphic Design, Animation and Sequential Art

- Quince Orchard High School, 1999 - 2002
- High School Diploma

Experience :

Various Private Clients , Illustration . . . 2005 - present
- Provided illustrations and fine art paintings for private patrons.

Reverge Labs LLC, Environment Stage Artist, Colorist, Storyboard & Cinematics Artist, Marina Del Rey, California . . . May 2011 - November 2011
-Illustrated 2d versions of various stage art and produced storyboards, line art and color flats for cinematics for the video game Skullgirls.

Udon Entertainment, Illustrator, Colorist & Concept Artist, Toronto, Canada . . . September 2008 – November 2009
- Provided illustrations and concept art for clients including Playboy, White Wolf Publishing, Sony Online Entertainment, Wizards of the Coast and contributed illustrations to Street Fighter and Darkstalkers Tribute.
- Character Designer and Background Artist for the video game Playboy Manager.
- Artist Contributor to Exalted Role Playing Game.
- Colorist and environment artist for Sony's Free Realms video game.
- Card Illustrator for Magic the Gathering Online.

Affect Flash, Illustrator . . . May 2008
- Cover Artist for August 2008 issue of Affect Flash Magazine

Image Comics, Illustrator, Berkeley, California . . . various projects published since 2008
- Artist contributor to Eisner-award winning anthology Popgun Volume 3 and Harvey-award winning Popgun Volume 4.

AkibaAngels.com, Illustrator, Virginia . . . November 2005 - May 2006
- Collaborated with multiple artists on variety of published projects.

City of Gaithersburg, Senior Camp Counselor, Gaithersburg , Maryland . . . June 2002 - August 2002
- Organized activities for grade-school children.
- Life Guarded at Montgomery County Public Pool Facilities.
- Managed two-person counselor team.

Awards and Accolades :

- Harvey Award, Best Anthology, for contributions to Image Comic’s Popgun Volume 4, 2011
- Eisner Award, Best Anthology, for contributions to Image Comic's Popgun Volume 3, 2010
- Second Place Winner in Wacom's "Bring Your Vision To Life : Dreams" painting contest, 2009
- Featured Artist on CGHUB.com, 2009 and 2010
- Finalist in NVIDIA's DeviantART Painting contest, 2009
- Interview and full-page feature in Imagine FX's UK Edition, January 2010
- Congressional Art Award, 2002