Christopher Wright
70 Peter Street • Buffalo, NY 14207
(716) 548- 9245

http://www.kabutographics.com
Christopher@kabutographics.com

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A classically trained professional Illustrator
with both old-world and modern skills!

Illustration
Custom Painted Portraits
Commercial Art
Graphic Design
Kinetics

I hope you enjoy my Sample Gallery of Artwork.
It is my goal to be able to provide you with rich and pleasing, personal, artistic solutions suited to your custom needs.

I will put my experience, strong education, and years of training in physical and digital media into every piece of artwork I do.

Custom Mixed-Media Portraits
Fine Art style Illustrations

    • Fine Art-quality Digital Prints and Real Media manipulated by hand over various substrate
      • Pen and ink brush work on old fashioned art board
      • Water Color
      • Dyes
      • Colored pencil
      • Airbrush
      • Guash
      • Enamel
      • Acrylics
      • Chalks
      • Pastels
      • Oil

Pre-press, Layout and Pixel-pushing

    • Modern Mac & Windows software:

      • 2D Artwork, Design, Digital Painting, & Illustration:
        • Adobe
          • Photoshop Extended CS3, CS4
          • Illustrator CS3, CS4
        • Corel
          • Painter X
          • Freehand

      • Page Layout and Typography:
        • Adobe
          • InDesign CS3, CS4
          • Bridge CS3, CS4
          • PageMaker
        • QwarkXpress

      • Web Authoring:
          • Flash CS3, CS4
          • GoLive CS
          • Acrobat Pro
          • ImageReady

      • 3D:
        • Poser 7
        • DAZStudio
        • Wings3D
        • TurboCad
        • Blender
        • Autodesk Sketch

      • Drafting/CAD
        • Old fashioned drawing board stuff mixed with Auto Cad R14
        • TurboCad
    • Photo Retouch
    • Interactive Art
    • Corporate Design
    • 2D Animated images for icons, banners, and web
    • Reflective opaque scanning or transparent slide scanning

Clothing Graphics

    • A growing line of wearable artwork on nice shirts

Digital/Mixed Media

    • Combinations of traditional media & computer generated artwork
    • Closed presentations and learning tools
    • Newspaper Ads
    • Trade Show Art
    • Booth design & decoration, hand-outs, brochures
    • Point of Purchase Displays for anything from pamphlets to merchandise

Education & Military

1998-2000

  • The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. • Associate in Specialized Technology Degree
    Majoring in Graphic Design • 4.0/4.0 G.P.A.

1983-1986

  • The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. • Visual Communications • 4.0/4.0 G.P.A.

1983

  • Beaver Valley Vocational Technical School,
    Monaca, PA
  • Completed 2 year course in 1 year with 4.0/4.0 G.P.A. - Illustration, Design, Graphics, Photography

1986-1991

  • Honorable Discharged Veteran of the United States Marine Corps, Ammunition Technician / Recruiter
  • Combat Marine, Operations Desert Shield / Desert Storm, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq
  • Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, California
  • Team Spirit, Pusan, South Korea
  • Bear Hunt, Seoul, South Korea
  • Fuji Yama, Honshu, Japan
  • Camp Henoko, Oki Nawa, Japan
  • U.S.A.O.M.M.C.S. Redstone Arsenal,
    Huntsville, Alabama
  • U.S.M.C.R.D. Paris Island, South Carolina

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