Art Portfolio
Mariana Krasteva
Biography
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria
01.01.1982
Work experience:
From december 2017 until now
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
CEO/ Illustrator
Creator of the publishing house for childrens books How It All Began, author and illustrator
From april 2020 to may 2022
MINIBOSS Business School & Leonardo Art School International
- Certified Teacher for children 6-12 years old
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From december 2015 to december 2017
GARLIC advertising agency
- Graphic designer for the main customer - National Lottery
- Creating designs for the lottery tickets, promotional materials, campaigns, TV commercials, Viber icons.
From march 2008 to november 2015
PLAYTECH Bulgaria (online casino games)
From 20012 to 2013 - Team leader
- Responsible for the entire Slots team, coordinating and organizing several projects at a time, watching for games plans and deadlines, communicating with the higher managers every day
From 2010 to november 2015 – Art director
- Responsible for grapfic design, concepts, ideas, leading and organizing team of designers and animators, watching for game plan and deadlines
- Art director for the following games:
Vampire princess of darkness, Dragon Dance (Wu Long), Dragon Kingdom, Jazz Club, Jacks or better, VIP club, Don Quixote, Chippendales, Secrets of the Amazon, Blowfish
From march 2008 to 2010 - Graphic designer
- Making graphic design for slot machines
- Participating in the following games:
Wild Spirit, Silent Samuray, Arctic Treasure, Funkey Monkey, Happy Bugs, Panther Moon, Electra, Baywatch, Captain America, Lucky Panda, Spamalot
From may 2007 to December 2007
Imperia Online / Dobicom (online strategy games)
Concept artist and designer for Galactic Imperia
- Making concept drawings
- Complete design and vision, web pages, logo
From may 2006 to may 2007
Nu Image Bulgaria / Worldwide FX
Concept artist
- Concept drawings of characters and buildings, matte paintings, visualizations for special effects, storyboards for film productions
- Participation in more than 20 film productions,
like: Day Of The Dead, Megasnake, Brand Houser, Gene Generation
From august 2004 to may 2006
Venelin animation (animation studio)
Assistant animator
- Classical hand made animation - clean up, backgrounds
- Participation in the international productions
Asterix And The Vikings and Little Short-Sighted Boa
Education:
2001-2007 Studied at the
National Academy Of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria
Graphic art and printmaking technics, Master of Arts (M.A.)
​1995-2005 Studied at the
National School of Applied Arts "Saint Luca", Sofia
Design in advertizing and space design
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Participation in exhibitions and competitions:
1996 - Sofia, National Museum Of History
2000 - Sofia, SBH
2003 - Sofia, Hungarian Culture Centre
2004 - Sofia, Drawing competition, National Academy of Arts
2004 - Sint-Niklaas, Italy, international EX LIBRIS competition
2004 - Sofia, Independent exhibition – House of Culture Krasno Selo
2005 - Iambol, Second prize in the yearly competition for young artists „The soul of a spring”
2006 - Sofia, prize for EX LIBRIS in the competition on the occasion of 110-th anniversary of The National Academy of Arts
2006 - Sofia, joint exhibition - SBH
2007 - Sofia, international biennial of EX LIBRIS - National Library Ciril and Metodi
2007 - Sofia, joint exhibition - gallery Academy
2020 - Sofia, Selected for the exhibition Biennial of Bulgarian Ilustration