Dave Bardin
Freelance Illustrator
Los Angeles, CA, USAI am a freelance illustrator, working out of Los Angles. I have had the pleasure of working on many projects in comics, children's books, television shows, commercials, and music videos.
I am represented by Shannon Associates.
I am represented by Shannon Associates.
Work Experience
Bemo
Animator
Rotoscope animator on Season 2 and Season 3 of Adult Swim’s “DreamCorp LLC.”
July 2017
- January 2020
California, United States
Scholastic
Illustrator
Illustrated all three books (A Zombie Ate My Homework, Zombies are People Too, Attack of the Zombie Zing) in the Project Z book series.
July 2018
- November 2019
New York, United States
Hachette Book Group
Illustrator
Illustrated the Peter Powers book series.
Worked closely with the art director to illustrate cover work and interior pages for multiple books within the Peter Powers series.
Worked closely with the art director to illustrate cover work and interior pages for multiple books within the Peter Powers series.
March 2016
- January 2018
New York, United States
Penguin Random House
Illustrator
Illustrated over thirty spot illustrations for "MLB Ultimate Fan Playbook."
June 2016
- December 2016
New York, New York, United States
ABDO Publishing
Illustrator
Illustrated spot, half page and full page illustrations for the young readers series "Time Twisters." There were four books in the series and each book contained ten pages of illustrations.
March 2016
- October 2016
Edina, Minnesota, United States
Leapfrog
Illustrator
Worked closely with the art director to illustrate an interactive, young readers book about Space and Science.
November 2015
- March 2016
Emeryville, California, United States
Capstone Publishing
Illustrator
Illustrated children's books for Capstone Press. The umbrella title for the series was "Monster Heroes" with four different titles branching out from there: "Vampires and Veggies," "Witch's Brew," "Zombies and Meatballs," and "The Ghost Trap."
I worked closely with the art director in creating the look of each character as well as illustrating and making changes and revisions to the covers and interior pages based off of feedback from the team.
I worked closely with the art director in creating the look of each character as well as illustrating and making changes and revisions to the covers and interior pages based off of feedback from the team.
October 2015
- March 2016
Mankato, Minnesota, United States
DHL
Illustrator
Illustrated five separate comic strips for internal employee training modules.
September 2015
- October 2015
Trailer Park
Illustrator
Illustrated five separate, stylized portraits of Universal Pictures employees. Each portrait incorporated the employee's favorite pastimes, hobbies, and personality traits based off of a survey that they had taken. The illustrations were meant to be given as a gift to the respective individual.
August 2015
- November 2015
Los Angeles, California, United States
Graphic India
Environment Illustrator
Illustrated background environments and character designs for the animated film "Sholay Adventures" and "Stan Lee's Chakra the Invincible" to be used for production by the animation team.
While working for Graphic India I also illustrated two comics of "Stan Lee's Chakra the Invincible." The work was featured in a Free Comic Book Day compilation issue.
While working for Graphic India I also illustrated two comics of "Stan Lee's Chakra the Invincible." The work was featured in a Free Comic Book Day compilation issue.
October 2014
- January 2016
India
Masters Of Anatomy
Illustrator
Currently illustrating turn-around poses for an anatomy reference book.
November 2013
- January 2014
Canada
Bad Robot
Storyboard Artist
Worked on storyboards for the Google Play commercial "Play Your Heart Out."
September 2013
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California, United States
Education
Golden West College
Associates Degree
January 2008
- May 2011
Huntington Beach, California, United States
California State University, Fullerton
Bachelor of Fine Arts
August 2011
- May 2014
California, United States
Languages
English (Native),
Skills
Adobe Illustrator,
Adobe Photoshop,
SketchBook Pro,