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Curriculum

1993-95 - PC Videogame GAMBYS - Concept illustrations, character designs, enviroment art, planning, 3d Studio animations, 2D in-game animations and all graphic work for the first Portuguese PC videogame, working for the Portidata company. Also created all the marketing images around the project. Posters, flyers, banners, etc. Videogame released for Portugal and Spain in late 1996 to excelent reviews in the Portuguese press.

Revelation Award on the International Loulé Comics Competition in the summer of 1993.
First publication on the Bedelho comics portuguese magazine.

1995-1996 – Created all the graphic design for all the software of the portuguese software house PROFITUS - Software de Gestão. This included all the software design for those projects, with layouts, screen design, icons and publicity elements for applications like Restus, Promax, Protel, Proloja, Promoda and WinMax 2000 line of products.

Algarve Award at the International Loulé Comics Competition in 1995 with subsequent work publication.
First illustrations for magazine covers.

Comics for the portuguese motorbike magazine MotoJornal.

1996-1998 -Graphic Design for more software applications of the same company wich later became known as
EBASE Lda. Created designs for softwares like Start Gestão Comercial, Start  Facturão e Avenças, Start Shop and Restus-Start, WinMax2000 Gestão Comercial, WinMax2000 Shop, WinMax 2000 Shop Papelarias, WinMax 2000  Shop Alimentar.

1999 - Graphic design and plenty of digital illustration, for the whole RESTUS 2000 -
Touchscreen project, wich later won several Microsoft awards not only for best restaurant managment software but also the one with the best graphic look.

2000-2006 – Designed Ebase Lda website  www.ebase.pt (ebase.com) and all graphic elements in it, from the smallest banner to the biggest image. This also included plenty of work in previous versions online during the 90´s.

Illustration & design for posters and coorporate identity for the Voleyball Club of Portimão, AVP.

Character design for the club mascot of the Volleyball Club of Portimão and design of AVP Logo.

School manuals illustration, covers and greeting cards.
Children book illustration for the CHI Holistic Foundation.

Designed the whole graphic look for the 3rd Generation Software
INOXROOM wich is an application targeted at hospitality solutions.

Co-created the graphic look for the Inoxnet.com portal and designed more than sixty website projects for that project. Inoxnet is an online website editor wich allows the user to manage with total freedom the contents of his webpage.

Created the coorporate identity for the underwater club of Portimão, Portisub.

Exclusive digital and traditional illustrations for the CHI Holistic Foundation

Illustration for the Surf SPO company, at the magazine Surf Portugal.

2006 / 2007 - Currently illustrating for the
Jim Baens Universe Magazine, creating fantasy and sci-fi illustrations for their short story publications.

Currently illustrating for the
Foundation Culturale Droomwever.

Completed volume 1 and 2 of the 200 page fantasy graphic novel - the Adventures of Prince Ziph of wich you can buy the books here.

Illustrating for the greeting card company:

THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ZIPH Read the fantasy comics inspired by hundreds of hours listening to the greatest radio show in the world
Coast to Coast Am.

 

Welcome. My illustration commissions can now be managed by Guru. The perfect way to guarantee security, both for the client and me. You can Join Guru for free, login, then do a search for my ID. Or, in alternative you can pay me by PayPal.

All my work is done in watercolor, acrylics, color pencils and ink, except when requested to be art-finalized in computer graphics (Photoshop or Illustrator.)
Altough i work plenty in Fantasy and Scifi themes, my style is good for cartoony like projects, greeting cards, coloring book, children book illustration and so on. 

My illustration style was developed to illustrate mainly short stories in magazines, book covers and children books. These are my favorites. Altough i also love to do greeting cards and ocasionaly illustrate for school manuals, publicity flyers and anything that needs my graphic work.
My style has the advantage of fitting into most anything depending on if you need a cartoon like image and you´re not looking for a more realistic aproach.
Altough my favorite themes are Fantasy/sci-fi ones,i get mostly requests for children book illustration because of the nature of my colorful work.
So, if you have a book that needs illustrations like mine, need some cute characters, want a book cover, need to create some posters, a series of callendars or postcards or anything that fits my style let me know. Send me an
email with what you have in mind or post the info about your project on the Guru.com website and invite me to bid on your work.

Working on greeting cards is another of my favorite areas. Do you need a series of illustrations for a postcard collection ? Well, if you´re looking for images like mine, let me know and let´s talk.
I  can create postcard illustrations for you , in watercolors, or in Adobe Illustrator vectorial format.
Send me info on what themes you´re thinking and if you´re looking for a cartoon style humorous pics, i can do it for you.
Bellow are just a few examples of the styles i can work regarding greeting card illustration. More samples as soon as i have a break to update this website in the future.