RESUME

Carol A. Bartholomew
13451 Netherwood
Southgate, MI 48195
(586) 855-3474
E-mail: ca.bart07@gmail.com
Website: www.Carolbartholomew.com

Employment History:
Illustrator - Vanir Entertainment
01/2008 - Present
Responsible for creating branding and designs for various entertainment projects.
Create and illustrate concept material for character designs, and set designs.

Illustrator - Image Pro Graphics
Warren, MI
06/2007 - 01/2008
Developed new or revised logo's, sign design, based on customer requests.
Provided customers with several hand-drawn sketches for review and vectorize final design for vinyl plot or print.
Designed custom and/ standard layouts for vinyl lettering, using a Graphtec vinyl cutter and the Scanvec - Inspire software.
Reviewed and evaluate electronic files sent by customers.
Resized and digitally color corrected artwork when needed.

Art Director/ Character Designer - Greenestuff Incorporated
Clinton Twp., MI
2/2000 - 5/2007
Designed the 5 main characters for the Emmy Award winning children's television program, "My Bedbugs".
Provided the illustrations and sketches for animation and graphic sequences.
Sketched and created drawings during weekly meetings to be used for future specific episode's final design and graphics.
Assisted in producing marketing concepts and promotion ideas for merchandising.

Technical Illustrator - Ford Customer Service Division.
Livonia, MI
11/1998 - 12/2000
Received and inspected technical illustrations, for the Ford Service Manuals, and made all necessary corrections needed.
Revised and corrected all part number errors, by comparing information derived digitally or from blueprints and
direct observations of physical parts.

Final Artist - The Grosse Pointe Newspaper
Grosse Pointe, MI
9/1995 - 8/1997
Performed the final layout and inspection of the news articles and advertisements.
Paste-up news pages to be sent to printer.
Assisted the photographer with darkroom duties.

Final Artist - Mascotech Training and Visual Services.
Warren, MI
1989-1994
Manually inked engineering illustrations for GM technical manuals.
Key-lined and paste up of finished art, with arrows and content.
Operated photostat camera producing halftones of incoming illustrations for final print.