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Samuel Farinato

Objective:

My aim is to offer my illustration services primarily to the storybook market, covering a range of ages from very young to grown-up, and everything in between. I hope to offer a variety of styles and approaches in order to best fit the broad approach to storytelling in the market today, as well as to express my own stories in my voice. I also wish to produce work for the book and gaming market, from sci-fi/fantasy novels to board/card/roleplaying game materials.

Strengths:

Lively and fun character design, creative use of color and textures, and a commitment to accurately meet the creative demand and desire of my client.

Recognitions:

2011 - Accepted in the Society of Illustrators : Illustrators 53: Sequential/Series and Uncommissioned Exhibit

Education:

1998 - 2001 A.A. in Fine Art and Graphic Design from the Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa CA
2004 - 2008 B.F.A. in Illustration from the Academy of Art, San Francisco CA

Published Work :

2009 - SIREN Comics Collection : Volume 1 - Contributing artist/writer http://sirencomic.com/
2010 - The Angry Winter (Self Published) - Artist/writer
2011 - The Hyperquizzitistical Alphabet According to Edgar Allan Poe (Self Published) - Artist/Writer