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Elizabeth M.

Burbank, California

$75/hr
5.0
1 jobs

Elizabeth is a visual artist with over 13 years of experience creating style guides, key art, icons, logos, character art, brand illustration, and social content for film, animation, and AAA games. She partners with award-winning agencies on projects for Disney, Marvel, DreamWorks, Warner Bros. Games, Netflix, Amazon, and NBCUniversal, combining hand-drawn typography and illustration to create visually distinctive entertainment marketing campaigns. Her work has generated measurable audience engagement, including a Marvel holiday series that earned 197.5K likes and 5.3K shares, and a Nickelodeon and ESPN Super Bowl post that surpassed 465K likes on Instagram. A highlight of Elizabeth's career was posing dinosaur characters for the 2015 Jurassic World toy style guide, an experience that reflects a lifelong fascination with creatures, anatomy, and visual storytelling. Today, that same curiosity informs her personal work, where she explores the structure, behavior, and character of extinct, living, and imagined life. Working across traditional and digital media, she creates creature illustrations, natural history artwork, and entertainment design grounded in careful anatomical observation.

  • Character Design
  • Illustration
  • Sketching
  • Storyboarding
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Graphic Design
  • Icon Design
  • Logo Design
  • Social Media Advertising
  • Social Media Content Creation
  • Typography
  • Storytelling
  • Art Direction
  • Character Illustration
  • Concept Development
  • Brand Design
  • Brand Identity
  • Style Guide Development
  • Creative Direction
Juan L.

San Francisco, California

$35/hr
5.0
4 jobs

Howdy! I am an artist with over 10 years of experience and a passion for creativity, storytelling, and leadership. Over the years I've had the pleasure of diving deep into art direction, illustration, concept art, character design, background design, avatar design, creature design, ui, graphic design, 3D modeling, animation, and more. This has led me to have a wide set of skills and expertise to allow me to direct various teams as well as be the voice to help bridge the gap between artists, designers, developers, and other stakeholders. I am a passionate artist who loves collaborating with other passionate individuals.

  • Concept Artistry
  • Character Design
  • Illustration
  • Sketching
  • Game Art
  • Game Background & Environment
  • Vector Art
  • 2D Game Art
Tyron M.

Fremont, California

$30/hr
5.0
2 jobs

I am a 25 year traditional artist. I was classically trained on oils, acrylics, and pencils. I have used this to learn digital painting and concept design. I have been generating AI upscales and edits of my own art for 5 years now, but due to increasingly uncertain sentiments about AI use in the industry, I have continued to keep traditional work separate from AI. That said, the AI content I do make is done with a traditional design workflow, which enables incredible speed and efficiency in developing professional-grade designs for any purpose. My skillset is firmly in the fantasy/sci-fi/comic book realm, with my traditional work using lines and acrylics digitally primarily, and my AI workflow consisting of industry-grade digital painting techniques utilized for inpainting of AI generations.

  • Concept Artistry
  • Drawing
  • Storyboarding
  • Animation
  • Clip Studio Paint
  • Freestyle Drawing
  • Graphic Design
  • Digital Painting
  • 2D Animation
  • 2D Design
Jacquisha T.

Merced, California

$30/hr
4.6
9 jobs

Hi, I’m Jala, a digital illustrator and concept artist specializing in character design for games, TCG projects, and online creators. I focus on creating expressive characters and visual concepts that help define a project’s identity, whether that’s developing unique designs, exploring visual directions, or producing polished key art. I’ve worked on TCG-style artwork, comic projects, and branded visuals, giving me experience in both storytelling and production-ready art. I can help with: • Character & creature design • Concept art and visual development • Game key art and promotional visuals • Branding and assets for creators My goal is to create artwork that feels cohesive, professional, and ready to bring your world to life.

  • Concept Artistry
  • Illustration
  • 2D Illustration
  • Art & Design
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Procreate
  • Adobe InDesign
Varvara S.

Fullerton, California

$50/hr
5.0
11 jobs

My name is Varya and I'm an artist passionate about dynamic and colorful freehand painting. I have several years of working experience with illustrations for articles, posters, portraits, cartoons and books. Worked on video games as a concept artist and did backgrounds for an animated show. Lately seriously in love with books and book illustration. I work with Photoshop and watercolor paper and pencil and know exactly how to put life into any idea you can possibly have - from simple lineart to complicated scenes.

  • Concept Artistry
  • Illustration
  • Sketching
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Children's Book Illustration
  • Cartoon Character
  • Book Cover
  • Digital Illustration
  • Portrait Art
  • Poster Design
  • Comics
Aigul N.

Los Angeles, California

$50/hr
5.0
6 jobs

Amazon-published children’s book illustrator and award-winning concept artist with a passion for storytelling. I create engaging characters, illustrations, and visual identities that captivate audiences across books, games, and animation. I have vast experience in illustration, concept art, and 3D modeling that apply to projects in games, animation, and books! My skillset includes industry-standard tools like Photoshop, Procreate, Blender, ZBrush, and more —to deliver polished, professional results.

  • Character Design
  • Procreate
  • Clip Studio Paint
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Children's Book Illustration
  • Cartoon Character
  • Graphic Design
  • Book Illustration
  • 3D Modeling
  • Character Modeling
  • Pixologic Zbrush
  • Blender
  • Nomad

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