Rebecca Portelli

I'm a freelance digital artist available for personal or commercial projects. CHARACTER DESIGN | CONCEPTUAL ART GRAPHIC DESIGN | POSTERS | BRANDING COMICS | STORYBOARDS | TYPOGRAPHY Interests include world-building, character design, and storytelling. Experience with comic writing and illustration, small game development, and storyboarding. Outside of drawing, I enjoy tabletop roleplaying games, cooking, and cycling. Reach me at [email protected]

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"HERE” - THE VIDEO GAME | Visual Design & Illustration | My largest project yet was to fully illustrate a 2D “video game slash philosophy thingy”. I handled all areas of the illustration, including designing backgrounds and characters, menus and live buttons with idle/hover/selected states, and additionals like the website and poster. The game is available at http://here.gua-le-ni.com/.

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L E S S   T H A N   S T E L L A R | Character portraits | Busts of 4 characters from an upcoming comedy roleplay podcast created by fans of Bioware’s sci-fi fantasy Mass Effect.

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VARIOUS | Illustration | A selection of recent personal illustrations.

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CASSIDY, TULIP | Character portraits (unofficial) | Portraits of Cassidy the vampire, and Tulip O’Hare, from AMC’ superb supernatural, dark comedy, action and adventure show, Preacher.

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A PARTY BY YASMIN CACHIA, AUGUST 2018 | Event Poster for an upcoming party with a vintage circus theme.

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L E S S   T H A N   S T E L L A R | Illustration & social media assets | Group illustrations of varying styles showing a team of characters from an upcoming sci-fi comedy roleplay podcast. Additionally, an A6 flyer and some options for social media icons and banners are shown.

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BOMBÓN | Branding | Label and business card designs for a to-order bakery startup. Client requested something simple but colourful, designed around a japanese Ensō detail / coffee ring.

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THE KNICK CAST | Character busts (unofficial) | Portraits of six characters from Cinemax’s 2014 period medical drama, The Knick.

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THE NEWBORN WORLD | Illustration | Design of tarot-style cards for an upcoming digital card game.

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BIRTHDAY BUNTING | Illustration | Minimalist colored pennants created as a birthday decoration and gift, personalized to the birthday girl’s interests and aspirations.

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ILLUSTRATIONS | Various illustrations and personal works.

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ARIANA’S MAGICAL JOURNAL ASSETS | Illustration | Illustration of assets for an educational children’s game on tablet.

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THE ADVENTURES OF SCOTTIE GUI | Game & interface design | Design and implementation of the overall layout for a 2D narrative adventure game, as well creation of the buttons, popups, map and journal interior.

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CHARACTER ART | Various character portraits and design experiments.

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EVENT POSTERS | Posters for events hosted by the Institute of Digital Games at the University of Malta.

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CROSSCULT ASSETS | Avatar levels & achievement badges | Game assets for a geolocation app.

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GUI DESIGN MOCKUPS | Samples of flat interface design for a geolocation and a biodome simulation game.