Creative Designer and Illustrator with 2 years of industry experience in comics, visual storytelling, and digital content creation. Skilled in character design, illustration, graphic design, social media creatives, and creative direction for engaging, brand-focused narratives. NIFT graduate passionate about storytelling and design innovation. Experienced in fast-paced production workflows, concept development, and AI-assisted creative processes, with a track record of maintaining continuity and delivering on-time serialized comic art.

Tanuja Kumari

Creative Designer and Illustrator with 2 years of industry experience in comics, visual storytelling, and digital content creation. Skilled in character design, illustration, graphic design, social media creatives, and creative direction for engaging, brand-focused narratives. NIFT graduate passionate about storytelling and design innovation. Experienced in fast-paced production workflows, concept development, and AI-assisted creative processes, with a track record of maintaining continuity and delivering on-time serialized comic art.

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Creative Designer and Illustrator with 2 years of industry experience in comics, visual storytelling, and digital content creation. Skilled in character design, illustration, graphic design, social media creatives, and creative direction for engaging, brand-focused narratives.

NIFT graduate passionate about storytelling and design innovation. Experienced in fast-paced production workflows, concept development, and AI-assisted creative processes, with a track record of maintaining continuity and delivering on-time serialized comic art.

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Work Experience

Creative Lead at Pratilipi Comics
June 1, 2024 - December 1, 2025
Led visual direction and style guides for serialized comics, owning character bibles, environment sheets, and color palettes to maintain continuity across issues. Managed end-to-end comic production from script through final export, coordinating with writers, letterers, and editors to meet weekly release cadences. Established thumbnailing and review workflows that reduced revisions and improved on-time delivery. Mentored junior artists on anatomy, gesture, paneling, and perspective to improve team consistency and output quality.
Comic Artist
January 1, 2024 - June 1, 2024
Produced storyboards, page layouts, pencils, inks, and colors for multi-issue titles while maintaining narrative clarity and dynamic panel compositions. Designed main and supporting characters with turnarounds, expressions, and costume iterations aligned to brief and audience. Balanced fast iteration with quality to deliver pages to spec and schedule.
Graphic Designer at Rusk Media
February 1, 2023 - February 28, 2023
Created marketing illustrations and social media assets, adapting key visuals across formats while preserving brand voice.
Illustrator & Graphic Designer at Creative Fry Media
January 1, 2023 - February 1, 2023
Produced concept sketches and polished vector assets to support campaign storyboards and visual narratives.
Graphic Designer at Beryl Agency
March 1, 2022 - February 1, 2023
Delivered layouts, illustrations, and print-ready files while collaborating with copy and marketing teams under tight deadlines.

Education

Bachelor’s in Fashion Communication at National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) Srinagar
August 1, 2020 - August 1, 2024

Qualifications

Best Innovation Award (Graduation Project)
January 1, 2024 - January 1, 2024

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment