About me

Hello, I’m Chiamaka and I’m a third year illustration student currently studying at the university for the creative arts. I mainly do a lot of digital work and my style focuses on creating textured and colourful pieces. You can find me on Instagram or Twitter @blandoranges And my website at https://www.blandoranges.com

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Projects

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  A journey to a new planetA series of illustrations that explores what it is like to be an immigrant in the UK. I took familiar and everyday places like train stations and used unconventional colours to make them appear more "alien".
• Nicola Adams
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  Across GenerationsA series of gifs that I had made last year. This was about the older and younger generations felt about their relationship to traditional Nigerian clothing

Projects credited in

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  A journey to a new planetA series of illustrations that explores what it is like to be an immigrant in the UK. I took familiar and everyday places like train stations and used unconventional colours to make them appear more "alien".

Work history

Illustrator
Sep 2020London, United KingdomFreelance
As a freelance illustrator I aim to help clients help bring their ideas to life. With my unique style I have worked on projects to design t shirts and create promotional art for social media.
Volunteer team member
Mar 2022 - May 2022Farnham, United KingdomPart Time
Illustrations students and I worked on setting up a pop up shop to raise money for charities helping those effected by the war in Ukraine. I created assets for digital and print production. This would be for social media and posters used in the pop up shop.

Skills

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Indesign
• Illustration
• Childrens Illustration
• Commissioning Illustration
• Digital Illustration
• Art Drawing

Education

(BA) IllustrationUniversity for the Creative Arts
Aug 2019 - May 2022Farnham, United Kingdom