{"id":686,"date":"2019-02-06T12:54:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T12:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2019-01-31T06:06:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T06:06:33","slug":"featured-artist-casandra-ciocian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/?p=686","title":{"rendered":"Featured Artist: Casandra Ciocian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to Ellen Million Graphic\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Featured Artist of the Week<\/strong>! Each week, we select an EMG artist and share their work and history. We hope you enjoy getting to see incredible artists this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, we turn the spotlight on&nbsp;<strong>Casandra Ciocian<\/strong>! Casandra joins us from Cluj Napoca, Romania, where she has worked with digital illustration and animation studio Deveo Media Illustration, providing artwork for children\u2019s book series HUDSON AND ME by Nicola Preskett. Over at her Behance gallery, she features her work in background studies and fantasy illlustration. You can see that at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.behance.net%2Fcasandra-ciocian&amp;t=NWE5NGUzMDU5ZWFhMzQwZmExMmE5NjM1OTBhZTk2YzY5YjgzNTljOSxrV2M1eWJVTQ%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3ADheXNuP071eA0o7FhbL2Zg&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fellenmillion.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F142157841566%2Fwelcome-to-ellen-million-graphics-featured-artist&amp;m=1\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"363\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CasandraCiocian-PA1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"700\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=700\" class=\"wp-image-700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CasandraCiocian-PA1-1.jpg 363w, https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CasandraCiocian-PA1-1-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 85vw, 363px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"402\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CasandraCiocian-PA2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"699\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=699\" class=\"wp-image-699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CasandraCiocian-PA2-1.jpg 402w, https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CasandraCiocian-PA2-1-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 85vw, 402px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Casandra has been a prolific portrait artist since 2008, and is responsible for over 100 portraits in EMG\u2019s Portrait Adoption program! Her work spans characters of multiple races and ages and has been very popular, resulting in dozens of portraits placed with players. All of her portraits capture layers in their featured characters, providing adopters with prime story fodder. She\u2019s also joined in on Sketch Fest weekends, and has contributed a coloring book page to Scheherezade\u2019s Shimmy. (We gave away a free sample page from that book earlier this week! Scroll down to see it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"544\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CasandraCiocian-HeartofWinter.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"698\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=698\" class=\"wp-image-698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CasandraCiocian-HeartofWinter.jpg 544w, https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CasandraCiocian-HeartofWinter-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 85vw, 544px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Casandra-Ciocian-Protector-of-the-Secret-Garden.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"697\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=697\" class=\"wp-image-697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Casandra-Ciocian-Protector-of-the-Secret-Garden.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Casandra-Ciocian-Protector-of-the-Secret-Garden-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 85vw, 466px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"379\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CasandraCiocian-PA3.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"696\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=696\" class=\"wp-image-696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CasandraCiocian-PA3.jpg 379w, https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/CasandraCiocian-PA3-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 85vw, 379px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We invite you to explore more at her pages over on EMG as linked below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Casandra\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fportraitadoption.com%2Fpaartist.php%3Fprofile%3D378&amp;t=YmVlYzBlYWExNWE4NjAwNjM2ZmExNTVjOTM4MDY2ZmU0NmVkNzE3MyxrV2M1eWJVTQ%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3ADheXNuP071eA0o7FhbL2Zg&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fellenmillion.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F142157841566%2Fwelcome-to-ellen-million-graphics-featured-artist&amp;m=1\">Portrait Adoption gallery<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Casandra\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ellenmilliongraphics.com%2Fsketchfest%2Fsketchfestartist.php%3Fid%3D378&amp;t=NjQyYTJmYTNkY2ZhYzAwMzAwZDIzZjc0MDhiNTBhMmQyNjlkNTY0YSxrV2M1eWJVTQ%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3ADheXNuP071eA0o7FhbL2Zg&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fellenmillion.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F142157841566%2Fwelcome-to-ellen-million-graphics-featured-artist&amp;m=1\">Sketch Fest gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coloring books ft. Casandra\u2019s work:&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ellenmilliongraphics.com%2Fcoloringbook.php%3Fid%3D53&amp;t=MTY2YzAzNTg4ZTNjZmNiYjkzMjE5NGEwMmE3NjQzMmJmMDBkYmRjMixrV2M1eWJVTQ%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3ADheXNuP071eA0o7FhbL2Zg&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fellenmillion.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F142157841566%2Fwelcome-to-ellen-million-graphics-featured-artist&amp;m=1\">Scheherezade\u2019s Shimmy<\/a><\/em>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pieces featured above are:<br>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fportraitadoption.com%2Fportrait.php%3Fid%3D2579&amp;t=MzA1OWU0YWQ1MzRmYmMxOGIxNzY3MDlmZTcxMjJlMDQ0MWFhMzU5NSxrV2M1eWJVTQ%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3ADheXNuP071eA0o7FhbL2Zg&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fellenmillion.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F142157841566%2Fwelcome-to-ellen-million-graphics-featured-artist&amp;m=1\">Portrait Adoption<\/a>, available now.&nbsp;<br>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fportraitadoption.com%2Fportrait.php%3Fid%3D2121&amp;t=ZTM5MjYzNzhhODFlNmRlZTQyYzc1MWFjZjdlNTllZGI5YmViNTdlMCxrV2M1eWJVTQ%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3ADheXNuP071eA0o7FhbL2Zg&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fellenmillion.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F142157841566%2Fwelcome-to-ellen-million-graphics-featured-artist&amp;m=1\">second Portrait Adoption<\/a>, likewise available.&nbsp;<br>\u2033<a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ellenmilliongraphics.com%2Fsketchfest%2Fsketchfestart.php%3Fid%3D927&amp;t=ZTg3ZTkzMGNkZjUwYTZhMDhkY2JkZGRlNGJlOWFlNjcyZDU3NjU3ZCxrV2M1eWJVTQ%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3ADheXNuP071eA0o7FhbL2Zg&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fellenmillion.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F142157841566%2Fwelcome-to-ellen-million-graphics-featured-artist&amp;m=1\">Heart of Winter<\/a>.\u201d<br><a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ellenmilliongraphics.com%2Fsketchfest%2Fsketchfestart.php%3Fid%3D15509&amp;t=MTRjZmFiOTEyM2NkY2FlYWNhY2EyM2NiOTkyNjkyNjE4NDE5NmU4ZSxrV2M1eWJVTQ%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3ADheXNuP071eA0o7FhbL2Zg&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fellenmillion.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F142157841566%2Fwelcome-to-ellen-million-graphics-featured-artist&amp;m=1\">Protector of the Secret Garden<\/a>&nbsp;<br>A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fportraitadoption.com%2Fportrait.php%3Fid%3D2184&amp;t=YjgxOWNiYjk4NjBmODAzNWFhMWM4M2ZjOTc5NTk3YzAyYzI2ZDkyNixrV2M1eWJVTQ%3D%3D&amp;b=t%3ADheXNuP071eA0o7FhbL2Zg&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fellenmillion.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F142157841566%2Fwelcome-to-ellen-million-graphics-featured-artist&amp;m=1\">third Portrait Adoption<\/a>, also available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Ellen Million Graphic\u2019s&nbsp;Featured Artist of the Week! Each week, we select an EMG artist and share their work and history. We hope you enjoy getting to see incredible artists this way. This week, we turn the spotlight on&nbsp;Casandra Ciocian! Casandra joins us from Cluj Napoca, Romania, where she has worked with digital illustration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/?p=686\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Featured Artist: Casandra Ciocian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellenmilliongraphics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}