Freelance Character & Concept Artist – UK

 

Freelance Character & Concept Artist based in Ampthill in Bedfordshire. Being in Bedfordshire puts no further than 50 minutes from London King’s Cross and less than 2 hours from Nottinghamshire.

Freelance Character & Concept Artist

I am a freelance character & concept artist based in Ampthill, a town 50 minutes north of London. I have a penchant for drawing gritty creatures and trying to catch the essence of a character.

I’m always in search of my next project, and if you have something in mind that you feel we could well together on, you can find me here. Why not send a brief and we can discuss further.

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Freelance Character and Concept Artist Skills

Freelance Character & Concept Artist for miniatures

As a freelance character & concept artist I’ve had the privelage of working on miniatures in recent years. Regardless of where you are based in the world, I ‘m always excited to work on my next professional & creative project. Whether you are an individual, a business or somebody creating some thing interesting and looking to explore as start-up, I would be happy to offer my services.

I’ve had the honour of being able to work on character sheets, sketching ideas, designing vehicles, suits, outfits and other paraphernalia and environments.

Freelance Character & Concept Artist | Skills & Services

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Character Sheets

On a project contract or adhoc basis, I can help to create a character design to suit your needs. I have previously covered: historical, fantasy, science-fiction. These reference sheets can them be used by 3D artists or as reference for another medium.

Pencil Sketches & Concept Drawings

As freelance character & concept artist, I can create rough sketches to find the initial look and feel for your characters or models. These can be stripped-back line drawings in monochrome or shaded pencil renders. The stripped-back line sketches and drawings can be a good way of exploring early designs and keeping things budget concious.

Concept Illustration For Miniatures

Creating concept art and reference images for miniatures allows for so much scope and creativity. I have previously helped to create concept artwork & reference for miniatures taking into account – creating interesting models, how the model can be cast, undercuts and model weight and much more!

If you are a a company or and individual that creates or sells miniatures please get in touch and lets discuss your next project.

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Character Art & Concept Work

Freelance Character & Concept Artist for board games

Illustrated example of how board game artwork can be applied. Artwork can also be put together to ask as an early proof of concept for a box.

Freelance Character & Concept Artist for miniatures
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Creating characters, be it human or monster, is a something that I enjoy doing, and have done on commercial level in the board game industry. If you need a freelance illustrator to come up with come characters for your board game then please feel free to get in touch. Or you may wish to hear more on drawing on my concept art page.

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Freelance Character & Concept Artist | Technical Art Skills

As a freelance character & concept artist, I also have years of ‘technical’ experience.  In addition to my traditional drawing skills, I have a working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop is a tool I like to use often. So when creating the illustrations I can check for sizes and also make the artwork ready for print if necessary.

Artwork can be created either as line drawing or pencil sketch, 2 tone, monochrome or as  full-color digital painting on an isolated white background. Time and cost differs between the varying ways something is illustrated.

Administrative Information for hiring my illustration services

NDA – After agreeing to a commission and doing the paperwork, I would be more than happy to sign an NDA to keep your project top secret. Although it should be noted that I may charge to sign and scan an NDA ‘outside’ of a project. If you have any additional questions with regards to my skills and services feel free to send me a message and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Copyright –  needs to be discussed on a case-by-case basis. But I’m more often than not happy to sell the copyright along with the artwork. ( alternatively, you can look at my license details )

Commission Artist

If you need a freelance character & concept artist for a project please get in touch. Enquires are free, as are the initial 15 minute phone calls. No questions are too silly or pointless. I would love to hear more about your project and see how I can help.

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