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Lera O.

Game Artist & Art Lead | Character Design, Props, Concept Art, UI

Characters, props, and the style systems that keep them consistent — that's what I build. I'm a game artist and Art Lead with 12 years in the industry, most recently leading a team of nine at Product Madness across live free-to-play titles. I design characters and props from first sketch to final render, and I build the style guides, benchmarks and pipelines that keep a whole team's output looking like one game. What I deliver: ▪ Character design — concept, costume, colour exploration, final rendered illustration ▪ Props, icons and in-game assets, designed to read at thumbnail size ▪ Concept art — creatures, environments, key art ▪ Game UI/UX — Figma flows, prototypes, dev-ready specs ▪ Card and slot art — symbols, frames, jackpot and celebration screens ▪ Art style guides, naming conventions, file structures ▪ Seasonal reskins and feature redesigns, concept to in-engine How I work: Everything I design is checked at the size it will actually be seen. A character that looks good at full resolution and turns to mud at 64px isn't finished. I work to a locked palette, test silhouettes in black, and deliver layered files with clean alpha so your team can take it from there without cleanup. I've also led cross-functional delivery with Producers, UX, Product Owners and Game Ops, and validated art direction in Unity — so I understand what happens to art after handoff. Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma (advanced) · Blender, ZBrush (advanced) · Godot, GitHub (advanced) · Unity (working) Happy to start with a small paid test — most of my clients do.

🇺🇦Dnipro, Ukraine$60/hr100% JSS5.00 (2)Since Apr 2026

Earnings and projects

MRR
$1.7k

Last 6 months ÷ 3.3 months active (since Jul 2026)

World#27,791 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#1,440 / 14.3k
Revenue, last 30 days
$2.5k

Last 6 months: $5.7k

World#20,291 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#1,077 / 14.3k
Total earnings
$5.7k

Billed in all: $6.4k

World#243,005 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#10,073 / 14.3k
Per project
$574

$630 in the last 6 months

World#170,127 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#7,297 / 14.3k
Projects, last 6 months
9
89% fixed11% hourly
World#21,107 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#955 / 14.3k
Projects in all
10
90% fixed10% hourly
World#201,800 / 412k
🇺🇦Country#8,145 / 14.3k

Earnings, last 30 days

$6.4k+$2.5k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$2k$4k$6k$8kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

Skill rankings: Top 3% in 2D Art

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  8. #116Game Design2,110 freelancers · 🇺🇦 #14Top 5%