Mara Lindqvist
Lead Concept Artist
Environments, key art and the first paintings of a world.
Free soonAbout The Studio
Seven artists, one long table and a lot of paint since 2012.
About The Studio
Seven Artists, One Long Table, Since 2012
Illustra began as two painters sharing a room above a print shop in Portland. Twelve years on there are seven of us: concept painters, a character designer, two book illustrators, a cover artist and a sculptor, still at one long table.
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Every brief runs the same way: thumbnails, a sketch, the clean concept and the final render, with two rounds of changes and a date for each stage on the estimate.
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Files to your pipeline, named the way your team names them. Rights written in plain words. A date we keep, and a call if it ever moves.
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- Projects Delivered340
- Artists7, in five styles
- Next Free StartNext Monday
The Artists
The People At The Table
Each artist leads in their own style and paints on each other's briefs.
Elena Varga
Character Designer
Casts of characters, turnarounds and expression sheets.
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Noor Haddad
Book Illustrator
Picture books, spreads and the animals in them.
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Tess Moreau
Cover & Line Artist
Covers, chapter openers and ink that holds up in one colour.
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Hana Sato
Prop & Vehicle Designer
Props, machines and the objects a world is furnished with.
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Wren Calder
3D Character Sculptor
Sculpts, turntables and render bases for the painters.
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Ines Duarte
Creature Designer
Monsters, beasts and the anatomy that makes them believable.
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On The Wall
Shortlists, Selections And A Few Prizes
The work we are proudest of, and what the juries thought of it.
- The Grand Menagerie · 2025Picture Book Of The Year, Shortlist
- Frostbound · 2025Best Art Direction, Indie Game Awards
- Small Hours: Star Whale · 2024Cover Of The Year
- City Skulls · 2023Society Of Illustrators, Selected
What Our Clients Say
Two lines of brief went in, and thirty animals our readers still write letters to came out.
Hannah ColeArt Director, Lantern HouseThey painted the world of Frostbound before we had built a level of it. The team still works from those paintings.
Rafael OrtizCreative Director, Northwind GamesEvery robot arrived with a turnaround, call-outs and a sculpt. Our modellers had nothing left to guess.
Jonas BergLead Artist, Ironleaf InteractiveTwelve covers, twelve moods, one shelf that looks like a set. Tess just gets what a cover has to do.
Priya NairDesign Director, Moonwell Press