I am a highly versatile illustrator and designer with a decade of experience, including 2 years leading marketing and concept illustrations and toy design projects for licensed brands.

About

I am a highly versatile illustrator and designer with a decade of experience, including 2 years leading marketing and concept illustrations and toy design projects for licensed brands. I excel at developing high-impact visuals across physical and digital marketing channels, with a portfolio spanning IP-based character design, packaging, social media content, and story-telling-driven artwork. I adapt across artistic styles while delivering polished, on-brand creative solutions and enjoy collaborating with cross-functional teams to align visuals with campaign goals and market trends.

  • Joined December 2025

Industry experience

  • Media & Entertainment
  • Gaming
  • Consumer Goods
  • Education

Projects · 8

Redesigned the characters of an established children's book franchise, modernizing the visual style while maintaining brand recognition. Created all cover and interior illustrations across the series, developing a cohesive artistic direction that enhanced storytelling, character appeal, and consistency throughout the books.

  • Book Cover Designer
  • Book Illustrator
  • Character Designer
  • +3

Redesigned the characters, logo, and cover of an established children's book franchise, modernizing the visual style while maintaining brand recognition. Created all cover and interior illustrations across the series, developing a cohesive artistic direction that enhanced storytelling, character appeal, and consistency throughout the books.

  • Book Cover Designer
  • Book Illustrator
  • Character Designer
  • +3

Illustration for a World of Warcraft shadow priest in a comic-style panel for pre-production visual development of a visual novel.

  • Book Illustrator
  • Character Designer
  • Comic Illustrator
  • +3

Character concept art based on client's narrative project.

  • Character Designer
  • Concept Artist
  • Freelance Digital Illustrator
  • +1

Unofficial comic page of The Last of Us 2 created before game release.

  • Book Illustrator
  • Comic Illustrator
  • Freelance Digital Illustrator
  • +1

Developed visual direction and storyboarding for client’s marketing video, creating characters and environment artwork to be handed off to animation teams.

  • Art Director
  • Concept Artist
  • Illustrator
  • +1

Work experience

Senior Illustrator & Team Leader · Ripe Concepts Inc.Mar 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Led a team of designers to deliver high-quality, on-brand content for licensed IPs under Spin Master. Spearheaded illustration and design efforts, contributing to toy design, packaging, and marketing visuals for global children's franchises. Created visual assets across campaigns, including character art, storyboards, and artwork for product launches and promotional use. Collaborated with cross-functional marketing and content teams to align visuals with campaign goals and market trends. Supported prototyping and manufacturing with production-ready artwork and documentation. Contributed to community literacy initiatives through illustration for educational materials, and helped maintain production timelines and quality.

Education

Multimedia Arts · Cebu Institute of Technology2019 – 2020

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