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.real name: Gracjana Zielińska
.nicknames: vin, vinegar, vinegaria, syan
.date of birth: 02.december.1983
.location: Warsaw, Poland
.occupation: freelance artist, student
.fav. colours:  

.tools I can work with: traditional media and digital ones: adobe photoshop, adobe illustrator, adobe imageready, adobe indesign, corel painter, flash, opencanvas and similar.

.experienced in: paintings, illustrations, concept art, costume & character design, comics, tattoo projects, website layouts, art for games and similar.

.some past clients: Corel, Twistbox games, Ballistic Publishing, 2D Artist Magazine, Breakpoint games, Vajra Ent., 3dtotal.com, MNI, Inspiractive, ImageLab, Wolf-Fang, A-X, .PSD Photoshop magazine, Corel Painter Official Magazine.

some past achievements:

2007

» illustrations for Orion's Bell's collectible card game (coming in 2008).
» Unspoken published in Exotique 3 book (Ballistic Publishing, december).
» cover illustration (Angel) and tutorial for a special edition the best of .PSD Photoshop magazine (december).
» portrait illustration for Drakaina's fantasy artbook (december).
» cover illustration (After Dusk) and tutorial for .PSD Photoshop magazine (october).
» six illustrations for Corel's gallery at Adapt Expo 2007 in Montreal (september 24-28).
» tutorial (Snow Queen) for Corel Painter Official Magazine.
» cover illustration (Fish Poetry) and tutorial for .PSD Photoshop magazine (july).
» cover illustration (Unspoken) and tutorial for .PSD Photoshop magazine (june).
» illustrations for a dvd edition of few children fairytales for Moderna advertising agency.
» illustrations for mobile games for Twistbox games.
» exhibition with few other members of digart.pl gallery at Pyrkon convention, Poznań, March.
» dvd cover illustration for polish edition of The Trouble with Miss Switch TV series.
» Double Circus published in 2D Artist magazine (january issue)
» Sometimes they leave fingerprints published in Exotique 2 book (Ballistic Publishing, february).
» cover for Rerum Artis book series, published in Warsaw (first issue - december / january).

2006

» illustrations done for Dark Shard roleplaying game book (not published yet).
» Christmas graphics for Primum Public Relations.
» graphics (illustrations and concept arts) for mobile game Snowflake Girls developed by BreakPoint games.
» cover image for CD Vaws vol. IV published by Wavs - Musicfactory.
» graphical cooperation in making Josef Sudek's exhibition in Zachęta - National Gallery of Art.
» graphics and webdesign for StarOne media group.
» cover image for CD Vaws vol. III published by Wavs - Musicfactory.
» graphics (illustrations and concept arts) for mobile game Offside Girls developed by BreakPoint games.
» cover image and design for Niezwykła historia zwykłej parafii book written by K. Mączewska and A. M. Pisarska.
» tutorial about painting rocks, mountains and stones done for 2D Artist Magazine by Zoo Publishing (april).
» illustrations done for In Dark Alleys rpg book published by Vajra Ent.
» Double circus published in Painter book (Ballistic Publishing, february).
» tutorial about digital painting done for 3DTotal.com.
» Mushroom Hideout published in 2D Artist magazine (january issue)

2005

» Red Weed Brocade. published in Exotique book (Ballistic Publishing, december).
» exhibition in gallery "Łaffka" (Warsaw) with 4 other artists from ComX magazine (december).
» graphics (illustrations and concept arts) for mobile game Harem Monkey developed by BreakPoint games.
» graphics (illustrations and concept arts) for mobile game Sexy JanKenPon developed by BreakPoint games.
» cover and a short comic ("Z drugiej strony") published in ComX magazine (march).
» an article with pictures about me published in Anime+ magazine (march).
» second series of illustrations for ccg (collectible card game) Crystalicum for Wolf-Fang company.
» first series of illustrations for ccg Crystalicum for Wolf-Fang company (2004/early 2005).
» second series of illustrations for A-X shop merchandise (t-shirts, pins).

2004

» an exhibition in "Studio Sztuki", Warsaw, Poland (december).
» first series of illustrations for A-X shop merchandise (t-shirts, pins).
» freelance graphic work done for Storex company (october).
» freelance graphic work done for klub22 (summer).
» published short comic in ComX magazine ("Lalkarka:poszukiwanie") (february).