valeriasevgiapel@gmail.com 0533 835 5350 www.valeriapel.com @valeriangelion.art
VALERIA SEVGI APEL
CONTACT
VA LERIA SEVGI APEL
Valeria Sevgi Apel was born in 1999 in Istanbul. She is living in Cyprus. She is creative, friendly, critical, earnest, hardworking and responsible designer. She is compatible with teamwork. She likes to be unique and original in her own way. She always try her best to find the good solutions in design world. Being an artist and a designer are one of her passions. Her achievements in the field of art date back to a very early age. She made various editorial illustrations for associations during her high school years. She was very active around the art in her high school years. In 2015, she worked as an illustrator on the primary school books of the Ministry of National Education, which EMU undertakes to publish. Afterwards, she worked with Share Agency on the covers and illustrations of these books from 2017 to 2018. She graduated from Bülent Ecevit Anatolian High School in 2017.
Graphic Designer & Illustrator
She studied graphic design at Cyprus International University between 2017 and 2021. She participated in many competitions and exhibitions during her student life. She was actively involved in extra-curricular activities within the school and also helped their organizations. In 2021, she became a student representative in CIU. She wants to improve herself in the field of illustration and become a concept artist for game graphics.
EDUCATIONS 2021
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2021 - Now
adobe illustrator
ILLUSTRATION
adobe INDESIGN
DESIGN
adobe after effects
PHOTOGRAPHY
Adobe Premier
STORYBOARD
2D GAME DESIGNER DramaStoryInteractive
2021
Honorable mention in “Artist Avatar Challenge” hosted by Deviantart.
2021
Became a student representative in CIU.
2017
First place in “Çeşitlilik İçinde Birlik” contest hosted by European Commission.
2016
First place in Francophonie 2016 contest hosted by Institut Français.
2013
Honorable mention in Colgate poster design contest.
2007
Second Place in “Damlaya Damlaya Göl Olur” contest.
Working as a senarist and 2D artist on an upcoming mobile game named Amore Story. 2021
GRAPHIC DESIGNER ReklamOdası
LANGUAGES
Worked as a jr graphic designer.
SKILLS
adobe Photoshop
Bülent Ecevit Anatolian Highschool
EXPERIENCES
2020
SOFTWARES
Cyprus International University
accomplishments
2019
Writing
TRAINEE MESARYA AGENCY
Storyboarding
Worked as a trainee. I learned the team work.
Character Design
TRAINEE DILHAN OFFSET
3D Modelling
Worked as a trainee. I learned the working principles of printing machines. 2017 - 2018
HOBBIES
ILLUSTRATOR SHARE AGENCY
Worked in primary school books by MEB.
Concept Art TURKISH ENGLISH
Animation
PERSONAL PROJECTS
CONTENT
SCHOOL PROJECTS
COMMISSIONS
CHARACTER DESIGNS
2021
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ART AVATAR CHALLENGE
A few of my personal projects. They were entries for the “Art Avatar Challenge” organized by Deviantart. I wanted to create warriors who guarding a creative island. The drawing on the right, received an honorable mention in the competition.
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2021
ART WAR 5
This was an entry for the “Art war 5“ competition organized by Cubebrush. I designed a special character for Cyprus and transferred it to a finished illustration.
2021
COVER ART
Commissioned artworks for the Spotify covers. I drew a fantasy scene for Ahali’s single “N’aber Icarus?” and made a personal artwork for one of my client.
2021
IT’S MY TIME TO SHINE A contest entry for Clip Studio Paint. The slogan was “It’s my time to shine.” I drew myself in my own world while creating some artistic bond.
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2020
6 DIFFERENT VAN GOGH
LAFAYETTE REDRAW
This is one of my school project. I llustrated a vey famous portrait of Van Gogh in 6 different styles; my own style, surrealism, cartoon style, realism, pop art and abstract.
This is a reproduction of John Sloan’s painting “The Lafayette”. I tried to create a new version of it with my own style.
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BACKGRAUND PAINTINGS
These are my own personal works. I studied background to try new things and improve myself. The left shows a dragon trainer attacking a kingdom, while the right shows a normal village atmosphere.
2020
ARTIFEX MAGAZINE COVER ART I drew an illustration for my own imaginary, art related magazine named “Artifex”. I also design the magazıne pages. This was one of my school project.
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YOUTUBE THUMBNAIL
On the left, it is commissioned drawing which I made for a customer named Mushpy for his audio video. On the right, it is a thumbnail used in a special video of a discord server called Atom Art Community.
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2020 - 2021
DTYIS CHALLENGES
I participated and created illustrations for “Draw This In Your Style Challenge”hosted on instagram. On the right, original drawing belongs to @sanatsalsorunlar and left one belongs to @cyanhuu.
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ORIGINAL @Cyanhuu
MY STYLE
ORIGINAL
@sanatsalsorunlar
MY STYLE
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GAME ART
I worked as a volunteer in a game named “Infinite Nightmares” in a short time. I created illusrations and some pixel, asset designs for this game.
2021
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GAME ART
These are commissioned artworks for my clients. I created scenes for Episode’s interactive stories.
2020
REAL GODS COMIC BOOK I created a comic book and illustrated 15 pages for my school project.
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2020
POSTER DESIGN Poster design for one of my school project. My main goal was to use contrast colors together to make a harmony.
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2020
CHARACTER DESIGNS Character designs which I created them as a personal projects.
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2021
TIME FREAKS COMIC BOOK I created a sci-fi themed comic book as a graduation project.
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CONTACT valeriasevgiapel@gmail.com 0533 835 5350 www.valeriapel.com @valeriangelion.art