Flaviu Pop

2D artist

Bucharest, Romania

Work Experience

Tappa

Illustrator/Content Creator

My responsibilities include:

-Providing creative assets (digital stickers) that are to be used as digital content in the Keemoji and Kee2 Keyboards, personalized to each partner. Among our most notable partners I had the pleasure to work with Liverpool FC, Real Madrid and WRC.
- Character design for new assets to be used as custom digital content.
- Exploration of various digital art styles for a diversity of content. I have worked in retro '30s animated style, realistic pencil sketch style, cell shading, 3D text, modern lettering, GIF animation, minimalist 2D illustration, pop art illustration and digital watercolour depending on the needs and brand identity of the partner.
- Short gif animations using Adobe Animate. I have also worked on frame by frame animations in Procreate.
May 2021 - February 2023 Bucharest, Romania

Leaking Colour

Freelance Illustrator

I am a comic book illustrator, painter, character designer and cartoonist and I have been working as a freelancer since May 2020.
So far I have been responsible for the art and design of self published independent comic books such as:

James Bong (April 2022 - May 2022) - colourist and cover artist

DIGITAL (July 2021- Sep 2021 & March 2022 - May 2022)-co-creator, character designer, world building, penciller, inker, colorist, cover artist, co-editor.

Gekko The Bounty Hunter(February 2021-March 2021)- character designer, world building, penciller, inker, cover artist, letterer, project manager, co-editor.

I also had the pleasure to collaborate with music artists on a series of covers:

Tokyo Rose - "Out of Luck" single cover, already launched on all music streaming platforms + 3 more single covers and 1 EP covers not yet launched.

Extra Terra - "Renegades" single cover, launches May 27th.

Other notable projects include:

Swiss company Aperture - Illustrator and character designer of a composition of 15 original characters based on the employees of Aperture with a sci fi superhero twist.

Podunk Comics - cover artist on a a series of variant covers for their original series.

Konkret Comics - cover artist on the main cover of their OC title Absolver the Wrath issue 3, successfully backed on Kickstarter in May 2022.
May 2020 - Present Bucharest, Romania

Education

Manchester Metropolitan University

BA(Hons) Fashion Buying and Merchandising

September 2017 - July 2019 Manchester, United Kingdom

Languages

English (Native),
Romanian (Native),

Skills

Adobe Animate, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, CLIP STUDIO PAINT, Procreate, Sketchbook Pro,