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Samson I.

Samson I.

Illustration | Commercial Art | Character Design | Children's Books

I create illustrations and visual artwork for businesses, brands, publishers, and individuals from commercial artwork and marketing visuals to children's books, character design, and concept art. My work for several clients across the years includes commercial illustration, 2D illustration, character design, children's illustration, book illustration, concept art, editorial-style artwork, storyboards, and visual assets for brands and products. I can work from a creative brief, reference images, an existing visual style, or even a rough sketch and develop it into polished finished artwork. I am comfortable with projects that require strong visual storytelling, expressive characters, clear composition, style matching, and consistency across multiple images or deliverables. For businesses and brands, I can create artwork for marketing campaigns, product and promotional visuals, social media, print, packaging, apparel, educational materials, and other branded creative assets. For publishing and children's projects, I can develop characters, scenes, full-page illustrations, spreads, covers, and supporting visual assets, including print-ready files like high quality print ready pdf, psd files, svg files My visual range includes painterly, watercolor, pencil, hand-drawn, cartoon, clean graphic, and detailed illustrative styles, depending on the project's requirements. I also work with AI image-generation workflows, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Procreate when appropriate. This can include generating visual concepts, refining and correcting AI imagery, compositing elements, matching references, and preparing artwork for final commercial use. If you have a visual idea, product, campaign, story, character, or rough sketch that needs to become finished artwork? Send me the brief and I'll help develop it into polished, usable visuals.

🇳🇬Ibadan, Nigeria$15/hr100% JSS4.93 (35)Since Aug 2021

Earnings and projects

MRR
$441

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#83,019 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#2,406 / 13.8k
Revenue, last 30 days
$729

Last 6 months: $2.6k

World#52,648 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#1,249 / 13.8k
Total earnings
$27k

Billed in all: $27k

World#119,346 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#1,690 / 13.8k
Per project
$450

$176 in the last 6 months

World#192,713 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#4,468 / 13.8k
Projects, last 6 months
15
93% fixed7% hourly
World#9,890 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#632 / 13.8k
Projects in all
59

Across 62 contracts

92% fixed8% hourly
World#51,621 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#1,025 / 13.8k

Earnings, last 30 days

$26.9k+$729 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$26.0k$26.5k$27.0kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 10% in Comics

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. #15Pencil Illustration146 freelancers · 🇳🇬 #1Top 10%
  2. #18Whimsical75 freelancers · 🇳🇬 #2Top 24%
  3. #22Traditional Illustration160 freelancers · 🇳🇬 #2Top 14%
  4. #54Comics560 freelancers · 🇳🇬 #3Top 10%
  5. #55Colorful Style531 freelancers · 🇳🇬 #2Top 10%
  6. #69Freehand Digital Illustration585 freelancers · 🇳🇬 #5Top 12%
  7. #74Cartoon Style495 freelancers · 🇳🇬 #6Top 15%
  8. #92Hand-Drawn Style553 freelancers · 🇳🇬 #4Top 17%