Dave Bardin

Freelance Illustrator

Los Angeles, CA, USA
I 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.

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.
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.
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.
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 - 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,