About
Thanks for checking out my site!
Hi! My name is Dave Dinsmore, I'm an Artist living in northeastern Ohio [between Akron and Cleveland] My degree is from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
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My Illustration experience includes: comic books and storyboards
I also have done background art for animation freelance work and personal projects
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I specialize in realistic/industrial decay and sci-fi cinematic 2d environment art
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80's cartoons & manga have always been a huge source of inspiration for me. I strive to reflect these styles and principals in my work.
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My Programs include:
ToonBoom 22
Storyboard Pro 20
Krita 5
Sketchbook by Autodesk
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
OBS software
Da vinci Reslove
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Hiram,OH
330-235-2228
Professional Work
Spring 1996
Art Institute of Pittsburgh
Associates degree obtained
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as classic of an Art school as there ever was! The accelerated pace of classes was heavily focused on Design and Illustration.
1996 - 1998
Sweeney & Associates
Graphic Designer
I was with the team responsible for digital pre-press production and in house illustration. Steel City mailboxes still uses the packaging we designed then, today.
Summer 2010
Studio 2091
1 work in show
SASQUATCH art show: My work 'Bigfoot switches to Verizon' was included in the show
Spring 2013
CSU Peoples Art Show
3 Works in show
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I was honored to have my 'Fish head' art included in the show!
'Doc Salmon' 'Chef Catfish' and 'Goldfish Tattooist'
Summer and Fall 2014
Scribbles Coffee
10-15 works shown and sold
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Scribbles is just that kind of place where they have paper bag paper covering the tables and encourage people to draw on it! Plus great coffee! and I could walk there! Oh and an awesome rotation of artists on the walls year round.
2016 to Present
Stories for the Night Watch
Horror Comic series
Being in love with EC comics, I wanted to make a book inspired by classic horror comics. Three are complete with new ones added all the time! Comics are like painting as it is something I will probably do the rest of my life just because I love it so much.
August 2016
Skin & Bones Art Show
Personal Art show
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Art show at my home with live painting demonstrations with prints and originals available. appx 30 works almost sold every one!
Sept-Dec 2019
Hive Mind
'Kahr-Toon Ik-sEn-trik' A 15-piece art show featuring the classics re-imagined as cartoon characters as well as other cartoon/comic book inspired paintings and tattoo imagery. The final show at Akron's legendary Hivemind
2019 - 2020
Chronic Cats
Personal animation project
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My friend and I made up a show about two stoner musician cats who go around smoking and jamming with people, antics ensue.. I developed the characters and animated appx 20 minutes of footage for this project. I also did all the rigging and background art.
2020 - 2021
Aimless Ed
Freelance Animator
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Employed by Koper Heavy Industries to animate their spec animation short 'Aimless Ed' where the character gets prompts from an online audience for things that happen in the show.
Spring 2022
Meat Canyon - Team Faerie
Storyboard - Vis Dev
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I was on Ethan's Discord channel and somebody asked if I wanted to join their group. They needed some storyboards so thats where I jumped in, and we were working on the look of Gepetto's workshop
October 2022
Monstroween 2022
Dave Hartman is an awesome artist with an awesome hashtag. This was my second year following it, and let me say it was quite a challenge to hit ALL 31 days with good art. I Learned a lot about deadlines and consistency from this project.