Art Biography

As a young girl, Eriko grew up watching her grandfather draw maps for a living. He taught her basic technical drawing and introduced her to watercolour, acrylic, and oil painting. Throughout high school, she dabbled with different traditional medias such as inking and colour pencil art but ultimately fell in love with digital media upon being introduced to Adobe Photoshop. She also uses digital media software such as Paint Tool SAI and Adobe Illustrator to create illustration, logo designs, short comics, and character designs for independent video games.

Eriko attended Durham College for Digital Arts - Animation with a focus on character concept art and continues to work as a freelance artist and part-time art teacher.

Work experience
 

Freelance Artist

Various Clients

​2010 - present

• Provides character designs and character sprites for various video games and/or online projects.

• Communicates with clients regarding visual requirements.

• Uses computer, artistic tools and graphic software to create artwork or designs.

• Creates artistic mock-ups, drafts and presentation boards to show to clients.

Languages

HTML/CSS

REN'PY

Skills

PAINT TOOL SAI

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

2010 - present

Main Artist

Pineapple Harem

​2014 - present

• Main artist for the following games:​

  • Siren's Plea​

  • Fortune Cookie

• Created promotional posters and logo designs for on-going projects.

• Created character sprite art and concept art of characters to be used in-game.

2010 - present

Face Painter

Toronto Zoo

​June 2010 - August 2010

• Provided face painting services for children during children’s birthday parties and other children’s events at the zoo.

• Participated in children’s birthday parties and other children’s events at the zoo to provide face painting services.

Education
 

George Brown College

Business Administration - General

January 2013 - August 2014

Durham College

Digital Arts - Animation

September 2010 - June 2011