Felipe V.
Award-Winning Art Director | Creative Director | Concept Artist
Versatile, award-winning concept artist and character designer. I've collaborated with Mastercard, Sesame Street, and Grupo Modelo. I work in video games, animation, comics, and children's book illustration. WORKING WITH YOUR TEAM I know indie and mid-sized studio pipelines. I give your 3D modelers and animators clear, technically sound concepts they can build from directly. For authors and publishers, I design characters and illustrate stories that stay consistent from the first page to the last. ART DIRECTION I define the visual direction of a project and guide other artists to deliver it. CORE EXPERTISE - Character Design: protagonists, NPC variety, turnarounds, expression sheets - Concept Art & Visual Development: keyframe art, mood, lighting, color scripts - Children's Book Illustration: full picture books, covers, character consistency across spreads - Comics & Graphic Novels: character consistency, page layout, sequential storytelling - Narrative Art: storyboarding for cinematics and environmental storytelling - Prop & Asset Design: detailed orthographics for game objects and architecture - Creature Design: anatomy-based monster and animal concepts - Style range: cartoon, stylized, and semi-realistic, matched to your project's identity PRODUCTION WORKFLOW 1. Ideation & Thumbnails: fast iterations to find the right direction 2. Refinement: polishing silhouettes and color palettes 3. Final Delivery: high-res, layered files or technical sheets ready for production I send a status update at every milestone. All art is human-made. I don't use AI generation. RECOGNITION - Secuenciarte Award, Pixelatl Festival: "The Metamorphosis of The Metamorphosis" - Official Selection, International Residency Guadalajara: "The Children from Nowhere" - Best Short Film and Best Director, Tamatan International Film Festival: "It's on the House" TOOLS Photoshop, Procreate, Illustrator, InDesign Send your brief or reference art and I'll reply with next steps.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $16k
Billed in all: $148,670$149k
$895 in the last 6 months
Across 218 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 0.62% in Painting
Top 1% in 4 of 14 skills, ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
- Painting482 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #1Top 0.62%🇲🇽#1 of 3
- Advertising Illustration132 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #1Top 2%🇲🇽#1 of 1
- #5Visual Art531 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #1Top 0.94%🇲🇽#1 of 11
- #5Children's Literature418 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #1Top 1%🇲🇽#1 of 4
- #13Procreate1,451 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #1Top 0.90%🇲🇽#1 of 15
- #13Cartoon Character1,095 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #1Top 1%🇲🇽#1 of 17
- #16Comic Art1,172 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #2Top 1%🇲🇽#2 of 15
- #19Storybook573 freelancers · 🇲🇽 #1Top 3%🇲🇽#1 of 7