Character Artist | $6/hr Remote

Crossing Hurdles; India; On-site; INR 420,000 - 620,000; Full time

Job summary

Crossing Hurdles in India seeks an experienced Illustrator to create high-quality stylized artwork for varied briefs. You will design characters, scenes, and environments, and adapt across styles such as Cyberpunk, Art Deco, and Surreal to match the brief.

The role demands a minimum of three years' professional experience, a strong portfolio, and keen eye for composition, color, lighting, texture, and rendering. You will collaborate with creative leads and deliver consistent visuals.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of professional experience as an Illustrator, Sketch Artist, Cartoonist, Concept Artist, or in a similar visual-art role.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating versatility across multiple illustration and artistic styles.
• Strong understanding of composition, color, lighting, texture, and rendering.
• Ability to paint and render scenes, characters, and environments.
• Proven ability to accurately replicate and adapt different artistic styles.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to consistently deliver high-quality visual outputs.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality stylized illustrations based on detailed briefs.
• Adapt and replicate multiple artistic styles with consistency.
• Produce illustration variants while preserving composition and direction.
• Apply fundamentals of composition, color, lighting, texture, and storytelling.
• Create artwork across diverse styles such as Cyberpunk, Art Deco, Vintage, and more.

Skills

Illustration

Character design

Concept art

Storytelling & composition

Color theory

Rendering

Adapt styles

Job description

Commitment: 40 hours/week with 4 hours of PST overlap per day

Start Date: Immediate

Role Responsibilities

• Create high-quality stylized illustrations, sketches, characters, scenes, and environments based on detailed creative briefs.
• Adapt and replicate multiple artistic styles while maintaining consistency and accuracy.
• Produce illustration variants while preserving the intended composition and visual direction.
• Apply strong fundamentals of composition, color, lighting, texture, rendering, and visual storytelling.
• Create artwork across styles such as Sketch and Drawing, Cinematic and Film Noir, Steampunk, Surreal, Psychedelic, Cyberpunk and Sci-Fi, Art Deco and Art Nouveau, Vintage and Retro, Glitch, and Vaporwave.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional experience as an Illustrator, Sketch Artist, Cartoonist, Concept Artist, or in a similar visual-art role.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating versatility across multiple illustration and artistic styles.
• Strong understanding of composition, color, lighting, texture, and rendering.
• Ability to paint and render scenes, characters, and environments.
• Proven ability to accurately replicate and adapt different artistic styles.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to consistently deliver high-quality visual outputs.