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David Schmelling
David Schmelling
Illustrator / Communication Designer
Stahnsdorf, Germany

Summary

I am a professional illustrator, experienced with cover-illustration for books, creating trading card game artwork, illustrating characters for in-game purposes (such as character select screens), illustrating and designing characters for stories in media (books, comics and video games), creating environments and experienced with worldbuilding and crafting a strong plot for any project. I am able to provide fast sketches or colour-sketches, thumbnail images, and more, to illustrate initial ideas as well as fleshing out chosen ideas up to high detail-level artwork.

Site notice and VAT-ID
David Willem Werner Schmelling
Schmetterlingsring 3
14532 Stahnsdorf
Germany

USt-IdNr / VAT-ID.: DE263400897

Skills

Traditional ArtDrawingSketchingdigital artPaintingMatte PaintingCharacter DesignEnvironment Design

Software proficiency

Photoshop
Photoshop
SketchBook Pro
SketchBook Pro
CLIP STUDIO PAINT
CLIP STUDIO PAINT
Flame Painter
Flame Painter
Paintstorm Studio
Paintstorm Studio
Krita
Krita
Mischief
Mischief
Rebelle
Rebelle
Corel Painter
Corel Painter

Experience

  • Concept Designer/ Comicbook Illustrator at Freelance
    January 2021 - Present

    Working on concept designs for worldbuilding and drawing the pages of comic projects. At times, colouration and cover illustration are required too.

  • Bookcover Design and Illustration at Freelance
    Germany
    January 2016 - September 2021

    Designing and illustrating book covers, working with authors mostly from the fantasy and science fiction genre.