Illustrator and comic artist/ visual storyteller. Open to freelancing contracts involving promo illustrations, comic art, anime styles, and animating graphic novels

Kaitlyn Lancaster

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Illustrator and comic artist/ visual storyteller. Open to freelancing contracts involving promo illustrations, comic art, anime styles, and animating graphic novels

Available to hire

Illustrator and comic artist/ visual storyteller. Open to freelancing contracts involving promo illustrations, comic art, anime styles, and animating graphic novels

Language

English
Fluent
Chinese
Intermediate

Work Experience

Comic Artist at Sid Sydelle Illustrations
May 1, 2015 - Present
My DBA as an illustrator is Sid Sydelle, where I create both web and print-format comics. Titles include Addy Award winning "The Adventures of Redwing," "Jesse's Blackwatch Survival Guide," "Blood Moon Orchids," "Platinum Black," and "Ataraxy." I create every stage of the comic process, from concept to final execution - I have hired freelance artists as flat-color assistants
Creative Illustrator at Milo's Academy/Anatomy Land
December 6, 2021 - February 9, 2024
Created and provided deliverable anatomically correct, complex illustrations for animated learning videos. Milo's Academy is a medical and healthcare education software startup, promoting the passive memorization of anatomy.
Animator at BOLD Media
January 2, 2023 - Present
Utilizing After Effects, I animate an immersive, projected escape-room like experience for in-person attractions.
Lead Art Instructor at Kid's Cartoon Academy
January 16, 2023 - Present
Remotely teach students my self-created lesson plans surrounding: drawing in an anime style, creating dynamic action poses, creating comics, story boarding, paneling and pacing, developing characters, and all areas of visual storytelling.

Education

Bachelor's of Fine Arts at California State University, Fresno
August 4, 2014 - May 30, 2017
Graphic Design with an emphasis in Illustration

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Education, Consumer Goods, Gaming
    paper "The Adventures of Redwing: Hero Edition" webcomic - ongoing project

    This webcomic/printed comic series of mine is my proudest achievement: a bi-monthly ongoing series where I’ve generated over 30k follows across my social media channels that directly support the progression of this story. I am the creator as writer and artist, with a proof-reading assistant and a freelance color flatterer as my team.
    Creating this series also requires me to create animations to promote its existence, where I utilize existing panel work, or create new illustrations that have individually cross the 1million views milestone.

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    paper Kids Cartoon Academy - Anime Art Week

    I taught 500+ students (ages 6-14) over a month long course how to begin as an anime-style artist; we covered head shapes, body proportions, hair, eyes, faces, expressions, chibis, clothes, and manga illustrating techniques

    paper MOUTHWASHING fan animation - 1.3 mil views

    An animation utilizing Adobe Photoshop and After Effects, this personal fan project was made to experiment with AE’s layer styles and blending modes to achieve the most richest reds for the peak scenes of the game “Mouthwashing.” This proud animation of mine was the first of my work to break 1 million views on YouTube Shorts, and within 1 week of posting