I am a digital artist who specializes in illustration and character design. I am broadly insightful as I have studied animation for 3 years to which I owe my elemental understanding of areas outside of concept art. I enjoy bringing stories and characters to life through my artwork and am passionate about creating engaging and imaginative illustrations that capture the viewer's attention.…

Jan Esterhuyzen

I am a digital artist who specializes in illustration and character design. I am broadly insightful as I have studied animation for 3 years to which I owe my elemental understanding of areas outside of concept art. I enjoy bringing stories and characters to life through my artwork and am passionate about creating engaging and imaginative illustrations that capture the viewer's attention.…

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I am a digital artist who specializes in illustration and character design. I am broadly insightful as I have studied animation for 3 years to which I owe my elemental understanding of areas outside of concept art.

I enjoy bringing stories and characters to life through my artwork and am passionate about creating engaging and imaginative illustrations that capture the viewer’s attention.

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Skills

Experience Level

Krita
Expert
Adobe Photoshop
Intermediate

Language

Afrikaans
Fluent
English
Fluent

Work Experience

Freelance Illustrator at Bala Books
October 31, 2024 - July 18, 2025
Children's story book illustration.

Education

Higher Certificate at Friends of Design - Academy of Digital Arts
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Diploma at The Animation School
January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2022

Qualifications

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education
    uniE621 Hyades Rain Visual Planning Excercise
    This is my cast of characters that I redesigned based off of a college assignment from a few years ago. It was a visual planning exercise based on a video game pitch called "Hyades Rain". The story is set in the Hyades Star Cluster a few hundred years in the future and follows Jack Fremont, a private detective who is approached by Alice Satya, an archaeologist who needs his help to investigate a cover-up at a nearby alien dig site, where multiple researchers have gone missing. The characters in order from left to right are Jack Fremont (the detective), Alice Satya (the archeologist), Xanther Sbarra (a member of a monastic order devoted to the worship of advanced technology), Arystan Klan Vulkana (a mercenary), Jade Lily (notorious crime boss and head of the Hanakotoba Syndicate). designer conceptart characterconceptart characterdesign characterart gameconceptart…