Job Description

We are looking for a talented Gaming Artist / 2D Experience with a strong specialty in creating richly detailed, realistic hand-painted icons and game assets. You will be responsible for producing high-quality artwork that brings characters, items, skills, and UI elements to life with a painterly, tactile feel. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable working in Photoshop and Illustrator for production art, and in Figma for collaborative UI design and asset handoff.

Key Responsibilities

Illustration & Icon Art

• Create high-fidelity, realistic hand-painted icons for items, skills, characters, and collectibles

• Produce detailed game assets — weapons, armour, potions, spells, environment props — with rich texture and depth

• Maintain a consistent painterly art style across all icon sets and asset libraries

• Illustrate hero artwork, card art, and feature visuals as required

UI Design & Asset Preparation

• Design and iterate on game UI screens in Figma — menus, HUDs, card layouts, inventory panels





• Prepare and export production-ready assets optimised for Unity (atlases, slices, naming conventions)

• Create icon frames, borders, rarity indicators, and UI chrome elements that complement the hand-painted style

• Ensure art and UI assets meet technical specs across multiple resolutions and aspect ratios

Collaboration & Production

• Work closely with the art director to establish and maintain the visual style guide

• Collaborate with developers on asset integration and Unity UI workflow

• Maintain organised, well-labelled file structures and deliver clean, layered PSD/AI source files

• Review in-engine implementations and flag visual inconsistencies

Required Skills

Core Artistic Skills

Photoshop

• Expert-level hand-painting technique in Photoshop — creating realistic textures, lighting, materials (metal, leather, fabric, stone, organic)

• Solid digital illustration fundamentals — form, value, colour theory, and composition

• Abili

📌 Gaming Artist (India)
🏢 Grayson Talent
📍 India