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Dinika N.

Graphic Design & Illustration

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 & 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝-𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 ───────── ⋆⋅ ❤︎ ⋅⋆ ───────── If you need an elite, highly adaptive designer to craft premium brand identities and hand-drawn patterns, I bring meticulous execution to every project. From designing the official exterior livery for a national air carrier to custom, hand-drawn illustration work, I turn challenging requirements into pixel-perfect reality, always on time and entirely aligned with your goals. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐌𝐞 ─── ⋆⋅ ❤︎ ⋅⋆ ─── • Exceptional Creative Versatility: Expert across diverse mediums, creating everything from custom-crafted apparel graphics and repeat fabric patterns to commercial packaging. • Premium Brand Integrity: Trusted to maintain absolute visual consistency for high-profile clients featured on CNN and Good Morning America. • Multi-Domain AI Expertise: 2+ years of experience analyzing, evaluating, and labeling complex data structures across text, code, and multimodal/image models. • Optional Workflows: My artwork is grounded in traditional design principles 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 & 𝐒𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐭 ─── ⋆⋅ ❤︎ ⋅⋆ ─── • Graphic Design & Brand Identity: Corporate brand kits, commercial package design, marketing collateral, pitch decks, and custom garment/apparel graphics. • Educational Materials & Publishing: Custom workbooks, educational manuals, training materials, and interactive student worksheets. • Custom & Product Illustration: Hand-drawn repeat clothing patterns, children's coloring pages, scrapbooking stamps/stencils, and festival posters. 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 & 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 ───── ⋆⋅ ❤︎ ⋅⋆ ───── • Design & Layout: Adobe Creative Cloud (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop). • Vector Execution: Canva Pro expert—highly skilled at importing fully editable, custom vector assets built in Illustrator into collaborative client setups. • AI Evaluation: Advanced LLM evaluation environments and prompt alignment interfaces. • LLM Data Annotation & Evaluation: High-accuracy prompt engineering, response alignment, safety testing, and multi-format data labeling across text, code, and vision models. 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ──── ⋆⋅ ❤︎ ⋅⋆ ──── • National Impact: Design selected for the official domestic aircraft livery for FlySafair, a South African national airline carrier. • Global Market Reach: Developed hand-illustrated children's apparel patterns and commercial compliance packaging currently active on the market. • Brand Design Training: Conducted full-day, deep-dive brand alignment course to maintain corporate media standards. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐲 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐲 •───•°•𖥸•°•───• ❝𝘿𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙠𝙖 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙙-𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙙. 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝—𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙙𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙧𝙖 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨... 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 - 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙣𝙤 𝙛𝙪𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧!! 𝘿𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙠𝙖 𝙞𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣!❞ ❝𝘿𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙠𝙖 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩. 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙚𝙥𝙩 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙. 𝙈𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙮, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨...❞ ❝𝙄'𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝘿𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙠𝙖 𝙤𝙣 𝙖 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚-𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙠, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙖 𝙝𝙞𝙜𝙝 𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨...❞ •───•°•𖥸•°•───• I am a native English speaker with a 100% Job Success Score, available immediately, and completely open to adjusting to your team's preferred timelines. Let’s connect to discuss how I can bring value to your designs!

🇿🇦Port Elizabeth, South Africa$25/hr100% JSS4.98 (41)Since Jul 2023
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$495

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#78,377 / 412k
🇿🇦Country#436 / 2,548
Revenue, last 30 days
$163

Last 6 months: $3k

World#85,299 / 412k
🇿🇦Country#486 / 2,548
Total earnings
$29k

Billed in all: $31k

World#112,440 / 412k
🇿🇦Country#591 / 2,548
Per project
$328

$330 in the last 6 months

World#223,068 / 412k
🇿🇦Country#1,384 / 2,548
Projects, last 6 months
9

Across 10 contracts

10% fixed90% hourly
World#21,105 / 412k
🇿🇦Country#45 / 2,548
Projects in all
89

Across 105 contracts

61% fixed39% hourly
World#32,260 / 412k
🇿🇦Country#133 / 2,548

Earnings, last 30 days

$30.8k+$163 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$30.6k$30.7k$30.8k$30.9kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

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