Ryan Van Dongen
Ryan Van Dongen
Concept Artist & Illustrator
Philadelphia, United States

Summary

BS Interactive Digital Media & Minor in Fine Arts from Drexel University

I am a 28 year old Concept artist, Illustrator, and UI/UX Designer looking to work on fantasy and sc-fi games, film, books, & card art. I love creating and bringing imaginative worlds to life!

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https://www.instagram.com/ryanvandongen
https://github.com/ryanvdon

Skills

Concept ArtConcept DesignIllustrationCharacter DesignDrawingCreature DesignVehicle Design

Software proficiency

Illustrator
Illustrator
Photoshop
Photoshop
ZBrush
ZBrush
Procreate
Procreate
Visual Studio
Visual Studio

Experience

  • Concept Artist at Skeleton Krew Productions
    Remote
    October 2024 - December 2024

    Designed horror creature and illustrated keyframes for film project

  • Illustrator & Concept Artist at Kryptik TCG
    Remote, US
    November 2022 - July 2023

    Designed and Illustrated fantasy creatures and characters, and 1 of 1 hand-drawn cards for Kyptik TCG

  • Illustrator at Nothing But DREAMS
    Remote
    May 2019 - March 2024

    Designed and Illustrated fantasy creatures and characters for playing cards for the AracKhan Wars tabletop game.

  • Multimedia Designer at Connectify, Inc.
    Philadelphia, United States of America
    September 2016 - Present

    Produce, narrate, animate & edit advertisement, new release, marketing and support videos for Speedify VPN and Connectify Hotspot in Adobe After Effects, Premiere, and Audition.

    Design user interfaces for mobile and web applications using Figma.

    Manage and create visual content for brand Instagram in Figma and Photoshop.

    Develop front end of web pages and applications using HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

    Developed back end functionality and API endpoints using Angular.

    Designing vector graphics and advertisements using Adobe Illustrator.

  • Concept Art Lead at Drexel University
    Philadelphia, United States of America
    January 2019 - August 2019

    Managed art direction and designed assets, vehicles, and environments for 2 VR games for a custom-designed actuated VR bike platform. Illustrated logos and cover artwork for the VRoom platform and Hive Jive & Beat N' Path games. Set up and demo'd platform and games at the SIGGRAPH 2019 conference in Los Angeles.

  • Illustrator at Cogwright Games
    Remote, United States of America
    August 2017 - March 2018

    Illustrated creature and prop card artwork for the Underleague tabletop card game.

  • Illustrator at BAM!
    Remote
    August 2020 - September 2020

    Illustrated 3 variations of Umbrella Academy character artwork and signed 2750 prints for The Bam Box monthly subscription box.

  • Illustrator at Aether-Tree, LLC
    Remote
    February 2020 - April 2020

    Designed and Illustrated fantasy creatures for the upcoming Nexxitross: The Convergence LCG.

  • Illustrator at IronSoul Legion
    Philadelphia, United States of America
    August 2017 - Present

    Made character and environment illustrations for their website.

  • Illustrator at Lauren Declasse
    Philadelphia, United States of America
    August 2016 - Present

    Illustrated EP cover artwork and promotional imagery, both digitally and traditionally.

  • Concept Artist and Illustrator at Nexus Shift Studios
    Remote, United States of America
    August 2016 - Present

    Design and illustrate creatures and characters for the Archive RPG mobile tabletop game.

  • Software Developer at Addx Corporation
    Egg Harbor Township, United States of America
    June 2015 - March 2016

    Developed management web applications in the ASP.NET MVC framework using Microsoft Visual Studio

    Analyzed data from existing management applications used by the FAA

    Worked with a team on a data consolidation project to design and develop SQL databases