Samantha Richardson

I am a multimedia designer with vast knowledge across Games, Graphics, Products and Art design but my true passion is in character concepts. For many years I have been practicing a range of many different art styles to find out which once suits me best and is unique to me that could easily be identified by the way that I work, I have participated in many projects that allow me to express my character work from illustrated comics, to mobile game projects and even standard character work at the request of people who wished to have them. My main interest is to work with fantasy-based characters that dips into other genres as it allows me to explore endless possibilities with colours, textures, body features and additional abilities that may reflect on their looks. I don’t just focus on the design either, I also love to write up character sheets to show how they would be used in either a game or a standard story-based setting, building a life for them to reflect on their personality and behaviour. As a huge fan of video games and animations, my inspirations come from many different art forms that focuses mainly in a fantasy based setting such as Role Playing based video games like Divinity Original Sin and cartoons that use lots of colours like the anime No Game No Life, with some other influences on darker setting like Goblin Slayer. With the Knowledge I have; I like to participate in a range of projects that allow me to express my skills. This could be; Logo Work, Pattern Making, 3D modelling, Texturing, carpentry, user interface design, rigging models and much more! When it comes to character designs I like to focus on Photoshop and illustrator as a digital output for my character development, but I also thoroughly enjoy using more traditional methods from sketching with pencil to using a full-blown canvas with oil paints to allow me to work in more detail. I have had my fair share when it comes to participating with projects as I have, in the past, worked alongside other illustrators like Elina Sildre as part of a project for a world book fair in London that happened during August 2017. I have also worked on two mobile projects where I was the lead of marketing and had also been in charge for the concept work for the main characters and had the opportunity to create the 3D models. I have created a vast range of characters and I wish to continue this as part of professional development in the future.