Gabriella Marie Colman
E-Mail: honeygirlarts@gmail.com
Work experience
Skills
Artist & Craftsman - Retail Sales Associate
September 2024 -
Greet and assist customers with fine art and crafting needs. Direct customers to parts of the store with products they’re looking for and give them advice on how they can use said products. Recommend different types of brushes, tools, paper,paint, printmaking, sculpture materials, and more for their desired crafts. Demonstrate how certain wet and dry mediums work for customers. Promote different sale events happening at the store and the rewards program.
Spirit Products Ltd. - Graphic Designer/Product Design
February 2023 - July 2023
Created digital drawings for themed merchandise and custom giftware products utilizing Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. Utilized existing customer artwork and created original patterns and designs for licensed company designed logos, transferring files to customers for approval and to factories for production of orders, uploading artwork from websites and updating graphic folders, designing company catalogs and marking materials including page layout, digital photography, and creating digital images for customer websites.
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Proficient in Adobe Programs (Photoshop, InDesign) Created editorial illustrations, article organization, very simple animations
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Proficient in Illustration Programs (Paint Tool SAI, FireAlpaca, Clip Studio Paint)
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Demographic + Target Audience Research
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Multitasking
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Organization planning, scheduling, and problem solving
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Public Speaking
MN2S Music & Talent Agency - Designer & Illustrator Intern
April 2021 - August 2021
Learned to work in a fast paced environment with a global team of illustrators/graphic designers. Created designs for official merchandise to be sold on MN2S' website. Initiated weekly remote meetings on Zoom.
Graphic Jam, Beverly - Graphic Artist & Printmaker Intern
April 2018 - May 2018
Learned how to create illustrations and visuals for custom T-shirts. Created 3 T-shirt designs and printed the designs on the shirts by hand with a professional printing press. Used FireAlpaca to illustrate the designs and Photoshop to add final touches.
Education
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly - BFA Degree
​August 2018 - May 2022
Majored in Illustration and a preference, as well as experience, with Graphic Design. Minored in Entrepreneurship of the arts