PYRO KAMILOVA
ILLUSTRATOR
EDUCATION PROFILE
BA (Hons) Illustration
A graduating BA (Hons) Illustration student seeking practical experience to expand
University for the upon artistic and industrial art skills in a variety of job and internship opportunities.
Detail-focused and experimental in art skills and materials, as well as passionate
Creative Arts
about working with kids, excited to face challenges of an illustrator in practice.
2021 - 2024
International Baccalaureate Diploma
Anglo-American School of
Moscow WORK EXPERIENCE
2019 - 2021
IB HL Literature 5 Play Worker at Challengers
IB HL Psychology 5
Challengers 2024
IB HL Visual Arts 5
IB SL Mathematics Application 6 Playing and working with young kids - helping children with phyisical and mental
IB SL French B 6 disabilities have fun and enjoy their time as kids
IB SL Biology 6 Having 1:1 with some children - being responsible to look after and play with
Participant of IB Visual Arts Exhibition individual kids who require one on one play, while also being aware of how they
Member of National Art Honor Socicety interact with the other children and their surroundings
Cleaning up before and after the day - knowing how to set up different play rooms
and how to thoroughly clean them up after the kids have left
SKILLS Working with staff memebers - communicating and helping other staff members
who are occupied with kids and sometimes working with multiple staff members to
Hard Skills
supervise and play with the kids
Adobe Photoshop De-escalating situations - knowing and figuring out the correct way of de-escalating
Adobe InDesign some situations with the kids, while aslo preventing harm from being done to the
Adobe Fresco staff and the children
Digital Art
Painting Student Ambassador at PLOY
Lino Printing
PLOY 2024
Sketching and Communicating Ideas
Mixed Media Experimentation Keeping up to time schedule - setting up a time table for how to divide the work
Composition Knowledge flow between two ambassadors
Collaborating with a co-ambassador - idea brainstorming, collaborative work to
Soft Skills post and maintain creative work on social media
Networking with other artists - researching for more artists to connect with
Deadline - Driven through the app
Good communication and Social media promotion - interacting with creative people to gain interactions
collaboration with the app and communicating with followers to gain app traction
Experimental and open minded
Work Experience with a Publishing Group
Legend Times Group 2024
CONTACT Responding to quick deadlines - getting emailed briefs for short term
completion from different experience areas in the publishing group
+447444386388 Responding to multiple briefs at once - balancing briefs from different work
areas as well as working the time management of university work
[email protected] In depth publicity research - considering the client’s book contents and
researching for articles, podcasts, and journalists who talked about the topic
https://pyrohexx.wixsite.com
Creating mock-ups and mood boards - researching for created book covers that
/portfolio
matches the clients ideas and requirements, as well as sketching out mock ups
Farnham, UK Working on marketing banners - using Photoshop to replicate the style of
created book covers with informational banners for Amazon marketing pages
LANGUAGES UCA Live Industry brief for a Netflix Drama
Netflix 2023
English
Responding to a tight deadline - created a work within a day for a Netflix drama
Russian Working independently - making a piece of work with no active feedback from
the client
French Working for a client brief - considering the client’s requirements of using a
specific color palette and the scale of the art piece
Experimenting with materials and colors - Experimenting with color
combinations and how to make the piece stand out from afar
REFERENCES
UCA Live Mural Design Brief in a Group Commission
Tom Walker Tannery Studios and Triple FFF Brewery 2023
Programme Director for Illustration Active research - doing in depth research for both companies to brainstorm and
University for the Creative Arts establish sketches and visual ideas
[email protected] Designing large murals for two different clients, one with a very specific brief
01252 722441 and the other one more open minded to the imagery
Consideration for space and style aesthetic - fitting the aesthetic of both places,
considering their environment and atmosphere
Tom was one of my tutors
Collaborating with an artist - communicating for the time management, idea
throughout the 3 years that I have brain storming, and sharing the work contribution
studies in UCA Farnham. Digital scale experimentation - going outside the comfort zone in terms of
working with large scale and digitally creating final designs
Tim Grimes Museum of Typography Contest
Co founder and CEO of PLOY Museum of Typography 2023
PLOY App
Active in depth research - looking into known international competitions that fit
[email protected] the art style and promote experimentation with art materials
0751 585 3715 Researching about the contest’s history, previous winners, and what the judges
look for
Tim is a co founder of PLOY and Working with different visuals for a large theme - brainstorming visuals for the
hired me to be a student ambassador theme of “Racism - Xenophobia,” being challenged by the scale of the theme
to represent UCA and promote the Experimenting with materials - working with paper cutting, photography, and
app. fabric for the final poster design
Textbook Illustration
Olivia Le Maistre Private Commission 2019
Marketing Manager Research for the appropriate audience - gathered information from various
Legend Times Group sources to create child appropriate graphics, and stylized illustrations
olivia.lemaistre@legendtimesgroup. Researching about the language that the book will teach and how it can be
co.uk visually conveyed
Referencing textbooks for imagery examples - how they stylize for children and
use illustrations to enhance kids’ understanding of the text
Olivia was the marketing manager
Collaborated with writers and publishers - to develop concept and design
who took me in for the internship in Compared painting, hand-drawn, and digital art to produce the best quality work,
the Legend Times Group, and fitted thematically for the book
guided me with interacting with
different departments of this
publishing group.
