Fine Art graduate developing work across digital illustration, visual storytelling, character design, comics, 2D animation, and mixed-media installation. My practice combines personal narrative, dark humour, fantasy, memory, and emotional atmosphere, with a focus on character-led storytelling and cinematic composition. I have experience creating digital art for Web3/NFT projects and community-focused worlds, building visual systems that keep characters consistent across formats, themes, and moods.…

Eliza Dinu

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Fine Art graduate developing work across digital illustration, visual storytelling, character design, comics, 2D animation, and mixed-media installation. My practice combines personal narrative, dark humour, fantasy, memory, and emotional atmosphere, with a focus on character-led storytelling and cinematic composition. I have experience creating digital art for Web3/NFT projects and community-focused worlds, building visual systems that keep characters consistent across formats, themes, and moods.…

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Fine Art graduate developing work across digital illustration, visual storytelling, character design, comics, 2D animation, and mixed-media installation. My practice combines personal narrative, dark humour, fantasy, memory, and emotional atmosphere, with a focus on character-led storytelling and cinematic composition.

I have experience creating digital art for Web3/NFT projects and community-focused worlds, building visual systems that keep characters consistent across formats, themes, and moods.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Digital Artist / Illustrator (Independent) at Independent Web3 & NFT Projects (various)
January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2026
Created digital illustrations, mascot characters, NFT artwork, and visual assets for independent Web3 projects. Developed character-based collectible artwork using consistent design systems across varied poses, backgrounds, colourways, and expressions. Produced social media visuals and meme-based illustrations responding to online culture and Web3 humour. Designed fantasy environment artwork, website visuals, and Discord/community assets for the Oasis Opus project. Designed original characters and adapted them into different moods and themes, producing artwork for both individual posts and larger NFT collections. Worked mainly in Clip Studio Paint, with basic knowledge of Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and Procreate.

Education

BA Fine Art at London Metropolitan University
September 22, 2022 - July 18, 2026

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education, Professional Services
    A Story of a Story – Autobiographical Short Comic
    A short autobiographical comic exploring family, memory, humour and the difficulty of transforming personal experience into a narrative. The comic uses a bear-like autobiographical character, handwritten dialogue and self-aware storytelling to move between personal memories, internal conversations and reflection. Through sequential illustration, close-ups and symbolic imagery, the project explores anger, guilt, family relationships and inherited emotional patterns while balancing more serious themes with dark humour. The project helped develop my approach to sequential storytelling, expressive character acting and combining text with visual narrative. ComicArt GraphicNovel SequentialArt VisualStorytelling DigitalIllustration CharacterDesign AutobiographicalComic NarrativeArt ComicArtist Storytelling Illustration…
    Eternals – ongoing NFT Collection
    A series of character-based NFT artworks developed from original mascot characters inspired by recognisable personalities, stereotypes and cultural archetypes. Each character was designed with a distinct personality, fashion style and visual identity while remaining part of the same wider character universe. The characters were also adapted in response to current internet culture, Web3 topics, entertainment and social media trends. This allowed the artwork to function both as collectible pieces and as flexible characters for memes, promotional artwork and online storytelling. CharacterDesign NFTArt DigitalIllustration Web3Art ConceptArt CharacterIllustration MascotDesign VisualDevelopment SocialMediaArt MemeArt DigitalArtist CharacterArt…
    106-Piece Character NFT Collection
    A 106-piece NFT collection created for an independent Web3 and meme coin project. The collection was developed around a consistent mascot composition, with different characters, clothing, accessories, backgrounds and colour palettes used to create variation across the full series. The project required maintaining visual consistency while producing a large number of individual artworks, combining character illustration with a repeatable collectible format. NFTCollection NFTArt CharacterDesign DigitalIllustration Web3Art MascotDesign CollectibleArt CharacterIllustration DigitalArtist VisualDevelopment…
    Meme Bear – 25-Piece NFT Collection
    A 25-piece character-based NFT collection inspired by a viral Olympic breaking meme from 2024. I reinterpreted the original meme through an original bear mascot, creating variations in pose, expression, colour, costume and background while maintaining a consistent visual identity across the collection. The project focused on translating an internet meme into a cohesive collectible character series while keeping each artwork individually recognisable. Hashtags: NFTArt NFTCollection CharacterDesign DigitalIllustration MascotDesign Web3Art MemeArt CharacterArt CollectibleArt DigitalArtist…
    Oasis Opus – Character, Environment & Web3 Visual Development
    A collection of digital illustrations and visual assets created for Oasis Opus, an independent Web3 project. I helped develop the visual identity of the project through fantasy environment artwork, mascot character design, website visuals, promotional illustrations and community-focused social media content. The work included early character concepts and line-art studies, as well as finished illustrations placing the characters into humorous, surreal and narrative situations. The aim was to build a recognisable visual world that could work across the website, social media and NFT-related content. Hashtags: DigitalIllustration CharacterDesign ConceptArt EnvironmentDesign Web3Art NFTArt MascotDesign VisualDevelopment SocialMediaArt FantasyArt BrandIllustration Illustration…
    Fantasy Graphic Novel – Character Design & Visual Storytelling
    An ongoing personal graphic novel project exploring generational trauma, memory, emotional inheritance and the effects of living with incomplete truth. Set within a fantasy world shaped by ancient rituals, fractured bloodlines and a living forest, the project combines character design, worldbuilding, narrative illustration and sequential storytelling. I developed the characters through concept sketches, costume exploration, expression studies and illustrated scenes, with a strong focus on atmosphere, colour, lighting and cinematic composition. The project also explores how characters change visually as they move through different environments and experiences. Created digitally in Clip Studio Paint. Illustrator CharacterDesign ConceptArt GraphicNovel ComicArt DigitalIllustration VisualStorytelling SequentialArt Worldbuilding FantasyArt NarrativeIllustration CharacterDevelopment ClipStudioPaint…
    Oasis Opus – Illustration & Visual World Development

    A series of digital illustrations and visual assets created for the Oasis Opus website and online community.

    The work focused on developing a fantasy oasis setting through environment illustration, mascot characters, decorative backgrounds and website visuals.

    I also created character-based promotional artwork and community assets, adapting the project’s visual identity across the website, social media and other online formats.

    This project gave me experience creating artwork that worked both as individual illustrations and as part of a wider visual world and website identity.

    Created digitally in Clip Studio Paint.

    Graphic Novel Project – Character & Narrative Illustration

    An ongoing fantasy graphic novel project focused on character design, worldbuilding and visual storytelling.

    The project includes character development, narrative scene illustration, environment studies and sequential/comic art, with a strong focus on atmosphere, colour, composition and emotional storytelling.

    Created digitally in Clip Studio Paint.