Art by Pavel Guzenko
Concept art and illustration for games
About
Hi! My name is Pavel (or Paul). I am a Game Artist.
I live and work in Vienna, Austria. I was born in Moscow, Russia and graduated from Moscow State University of Printing Arts in 2002, qualified as a professional Publishing Illustrator. In 2009 I was awarded PhD degree in Arts by VNIITE (Russian Scientific Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics). In 2017-2018 I worked as Art Director at Sunfox Games. Since 2017 I’ve been working on my spare-time project Hit and crash, which includes casual game, comic strip and many more. In 2016 I published my first spare-time solo project casual dungeon crawler for iOs HeadlessD. In 2014-2017 I worked as Lead Artist at Sproing in Vienna, Austria. In 2013 I worked as Concept Artist at Wooga, Berlin, Germany. I’ve been working as a freelance Illustrator for game and book publishing companies over the last couple of years. Since mid 2008 to 2010, I worked as a Cover Artist in computer game developing and publishing company Akella. In 2007-2008 I developed concept-art for Russian on-line games. From 2002 to 2007 I worked as a Graphics Designer. All my published works were created with Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop or similar software and Wacom digital tablet. I am always open for exciting challenges and opportunities.
In my daily work I use the following software
My skills are based on experience and formal training and include
Concept Art 2D Art Key Art Illsutration Comic Art Character Design UI Design Usability UI Effects Video Editing Matte Paintings Environment Design 3D Modeling UV Mapping Texturing Animation Storyboard Art Guidance Art Direction Graphic Design Lettering Prototyping Scrum Unity
If you want to know more about my experience please visit my LinkedIn page and don’t hesitate to contact me by e-mail
HeadlessD
HeadlessD is hand-painted dungeon crawler with intuitive touch controls and NO in-app purchases. HeadlessD is available on iTunes.
Explore randomly generated dungeon with secret traps and great treasures. Collet gold, chests, potions, fight hordes of monsters and loot the heads! Each head gives you an unique skill as well as some weakness. Find the perfect head for your liking!
Long time ago I’ve started interesting and exciting journey to make a mobile game. Art and programming is done by me. This is true-solo-indie project called HeadlesD.
HeadlessD is dungeon-crawling game. Fight monsters and don’t forget to find a proper head, which gives you a special ability!
Here are the main features:
- Randomly generated dungeon
- Dozens of different monsters with unique abilities.
- Dozens of traps
- Boosters that help you heal yourself or attack your enemies
- Loot. Gold! A lot of gold!
- Secret collectable items (sorry, no spoilers here 😉
- Heads that give you unique abilities
HeadlessD is available for iPhone and iPad.
Follow HeadlessD on Facebook and if you are interested in next projects from me follow me on Twitter.
Here some core features
Here are few screenshots.
The programming in HeadlessD is done by me only by using Stencyl. Stencyl’s engine is written in Haxe and based on OpenFL, an open source project that mirrors the full Flash API in Haxe and provides all the hooks required to publish games to all the major platforms. Stencyl has an unique easy to understand interface which allows to user like me to build the code without deep knowledge of programming.
Stencyl has a great community which is always ready to help.
I wouldn’t manage to make my game without music! Kevin MacLeod is a great musician. He provides a lot of music for free on his website (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Concept Art
Here you can find my concept-art for iOs games, online games and board games. Most of my work is under NDA, therefore I cannot show it online. However, I am not so limited for offline portfolio.
If you want to download or get direct link to full sized image just right click thumbnail and select open in a new tab/window.
All rights reserved. You are not permitted to modify, distribute, publish, transmit or create derivative works of any material found on this website for any public or commercial purposes.
Illustration
Here you can find my book covers and illustrations for board games.
If you want to download or get direct link to full sized image just right click thumbnail and select open in a new tab/window.
All rights reserved. You are not permitted to modify, distribute, publish, transmit or create derivative works of any material found on this website for any public or commercial purposes.