BIO
Renata Rafaela Gomes Pardal de Oliveira Pascoal (1987), born and raised in Santa Maria da Feira (District of Aveiro, Portugal) has a Masters Degree in Architecture at the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.After the graduation, she assumed different roles in the areas of Pedagogy, Graphic and Web Design, Research and Architecture.
In the last 10 years she was more focused in Graphic and Web Design, having worked mainly in the iGaming industry, but also worked for a Digital Marketing Agency and as a freelancer for companies operating in multiple fields from everywhere in the world. Currently she is based in Malta (Gozo) and is looking for the opportunity to show her creativity to the world, because it is being creative that she feels alive!
Other facts and achievements:
Since always, she enjoys every free time to improve her techniques of drawing/illustration, individually and in group by participating frequently in Urban Sketching events.
She has a Youtube Creative Channel where she tests art supplies too and provide feedback on how the best techniques to make the most of them.
In the end of 2014, the portuguese association of Cavaquinho (Portuguese ukulele) represented by the well-known portuguese musician Júlio Pereira, has invited her and other 69 portuguese artists to paint ukuleles to make part of an itinerant collective exhibition.
She participated also in several other collective and individual exhibitions.
From 2010 till 2014, she also continued to develop her M.A. research as an independent practitioner in the area of the relationship between Architecture and Comics and presented several papers in multiple international conferences organized in Manchester Metropolitan University, Glasgow University, University of Hertfordshire, Bournemouth University, Universidad de Alcalá, Universidad de Sevilla, Universidade de Lisboa and in Orlando Ribeiro Library (Lisbon).
In September 2012, the Portuguese Government has recognized the “cultural merit” of her research for the purposes of sponsorship. Unfortunately, apart from the originality of the topic, pertinence and thirst for knowledge that she still has the activity was not sponsored by any identity and she decided to explore other endless ways to stay creative and discover new passions.
Press (In Portuguese only):
8th April, 2016 - Druva (in Latvian)
18th January, 2016 - Correio da Feira
29th June, 2015 - Correio da Feira
28th November, 2014 - OJE
27th November, 2014 - O Público
7th June, 2012 - Labor
29th December, 2011 - Diário de Aveiro
21st July, 2011 - O Regional
1999 - Jornal de Notícias
8th April, 2016 - Druva (in Latvian)
18th January, 2016 - Correio da Feira
29th June, 2015 - Correio da Feira
28th November, 2014 - OJE
27th November, 2014 - O Público
7th June, 2012 - Labor
29th December, 2011 - Diário de Aveiro
21st July, 2011 - O Regional
1999 - Jornal de Notícias

Skills

Creativity

Software skills

Keen eye for detail

Resilience

Team work

Fit and healthy
Software skills

Photoshop

Illustrator

Dreamweaver

InDesign

Premiere Pro

After Effects

MAC

Hobbies

Illustration

Mountain Running

Sewing and Knitting

Barbie Collector

Hear music

Travel