I am an Illustrator and Game Artist with 20 years of diverse experience in social, mobile, and casual games. I'm highly imaginative and have a passion for creating, always looking for projects that inspire me and where I can use my talents for the greater good. My background includes illustration, character development, visual development, graphic design, UI design, and traditional art and illustration. Throughout my career, I have taken on roles from senior and lead game artist to freelance illustrator, creating a wide array of assets such as game characters, backgrounds, logos, UI elements, and children's book illustrations. I enjoy adapting to various art styles and mentoring junior artists while working remotely and collaboratively across teams and vendors.

Sara Slocum

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I am an Illustrator and Game Artist with 20 years of diverse experience in social, mobile, and casual games. I'm highly imaginative and have a passion for creating, always looking for projects that inspire me and where I can use my talents for the greater good. My background includes illustration, character development, visual development, graphic design, UI design, and traditional art and illustration. Throughout my career, I have taken on roles from senior and lead game artist to freelance illustrator, creating a wide array of assets such as game characters, backgrounds, logos, UI elements, and children's book illustrations. I enjoy adapting to various art styles and mentoring junior artists while working remotely and collaboratively across teams and vendors.

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I am an Illustrator and Game Artist with 20 years of diverse experience in social, mobile, and casual games. I’m highly imaginative and have a passion for creating, always looking for projects that inspire me and where I can use my talents for the greater good. My background includes illustration, character development, visual development, graphic design, UI design, and traditional art and illustration.

Throughout my career, I have taken on roles from senior and lead game artist to freelance illustrator, creating a wide array of assets such as game characters, backgrounds, logos, UI elements, and children’s book illustrations. I enjoy adapting to various art styles and mentoring junior artists while working remotely and collaboratively across teams and vendors.

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Work Experience

Freelance Illustrator
October 1, 2022 - Present
Create children's book illustrations, branding illustrations for merchandise and events, commission illustrations, and art and print sales.
Senior/Lead Game Artist at Pixelberry Studios
April 30, 2022 - August 25, 2025
Created various 2D game assets including characters, backgrounds, game logos, and UI elements from concept to final polish. Managed and mentored internal artists and junior artists on game projects. Worked with external vendors providing art direction, feedback, paintovers, and polish on art assets. Developed thumbnails, concepts for game art, and created Pixelberry and game logos. Produced vector and isometric art for games, concept and visual development, and UI styles and assets. Adapted to various art styles for content creation.
Senior Artist at Electronic Arts
September 30, 2013 - August 25, 2025
Created 2D art assets and in-game animations for casual online games on Pogo.com. Developed avatars, backgrounds, badges, animated badges, and promotional materials. Served as art lead pitching game theme ideas and creating assets. Collaborated with engineers and producers to create engaging games. Worked on online remakes of Hasbro IP games and created storyboards for animated badges. Produced concept art for a kids' Pogo game portal.

Education

Bachelor of Science at University of Colorado at Boulder
August 1, 1990 - May 19, 1994
Illustration courses at San Jose State
December 31, 2014 - December 31, 2015

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Industry Experience

Education, Gaming, Media & Entertainment, Consumer Goods
    uniE621 Samples of Character Design
    Various Characters done for Children's Project and Kidlit Portfolio
    uniE621 Process for Branding
    Initial Concept Sketches Iterations on Concepts 3 Tightened line work or vector work Iterations on Font Treatments Final vector logo illustrator branding logo graphicdesigner
    uniE621 Children's Book Illustration
    Created illustrtions for a 32 Page Children's Picture Book about loosing your first tooth. Developed Characters, Thumbnails, line art and final illustration as well as the book cover. illustrator
    uniE621 Branding Busted Knuckle Woodworks
    Created Logo Branding for Busted Knuckle Woodworks based on photo of owner. vectorillustration branding webdesigner graphicdesigner logo
    uniE621 Branding for Carpenter You Tuber Business.
    Created Logo and Mascot character for You Tube Channel; Busted Knuckle Woodwork logo graphicdesigner illustrator branding
    uniE621 Candy Company Logo
    Designing a Candy logo with layered elements. Created in illustrator