love, absurdity, glamour.

Hi! I’m Erik - welcome to my portfolio site. I am a Black transmasculine artist with a focus in illustration, visual development, and character design. I enjoy creating within the superhero, science fiction, dark comedy, and slice of life realm of storytelling - especially combinations of those themes. Creating colorful, dynamic, and stylish art is my passion, as is representing and creating work for diverse ethnicities, identities, and age groups.

contact me: pineycontact@gmail.com

Selected Clients + Projects

Resumé

Resumé

  • Freelance Artist / June 2015 – Present

    Advertises and markets work online, negotiates prices, writes and facilitates invoices/payment, negotiates services, discusses clients’ requests and works closely with clients to create full digital illustrations to their liking, designs and markets merch, produces and ships merchandise.

  • Concept Artist @ Sabrefish Studios / March 2020 – Present

    Works on character design, visual development, graphic design, UI design, and book design for tabletop and digital games (such as Sniflheim). Researches relevant topics to formulate visually and tonally consistent concepts.

  • Illustration Intern @ Study Breaks / January 2019 – May 2019

    Created editorial illustrations three times a week minimum based off article titles and/or short summaries for a variety of subjects, edited work based off art director feedback and requests.

  • Software Analyst (QA Tester) @ Digital Dream Forge / October 2017 – January 2018

    Tested several types of software (e.g. mobile games and financing software) on multiple devices (ioS, Android, Kindle) for bugs, documented bugs in collaborative databases, communicated with clients and co-workers about software errors and functionality.

Education

  • Northeastern University

    BFA Game Art And Animation; Winter ‘22