Hi I’m Rajpal, a freelance visual development artist and illustrator based in Birmingham, UK.

Since leaving education in 2021, I’ve been self teaching digital painting from home. The idea of University, or art school, has always daunted me; I’ve personally found that experience vastly outweighs standardised education, and the confidence that I felt that I had in my art at the time, 3 years studying fundamentals, I felt that all that time could be used in training myself up for the industry.

One year later, and I think I strayed correctly. I began my freelance career and pursued other educational opportunities. Online courses like Schoolism, where I’ve learnt key fundamentals from some of my favourite artists: Bobby Chiu, Djamila Knopf, Nathan Fowkes, Dice Tsusumi, and Airi Pan, to name a few, have really shaped my artistic knowledge to the point where I now feel fully capable in embarking on my career journey as a VisDev Artist in the film / gaming industry.

Alongside with the many tailored commissions, whether that’s portraiture, comic, album, or poster design, I’ve also worked as the head character designer for a startup animated series. My most recent project was as head illustrator for a childrens book.

My main proficiency is with Keyframe VisDev for semi-realistic games and movies, though I’m also very much versatile in my almost chameleon-like skillset, with illustration, albeit realistic or cartoon, come to me naturally. Backgrounds, portraits, you name it - I can produce work of the highest calibre. My proficiencies lie within Adobe Photoshop and Procreate, though I wish to learn 3d software such as Maya and Blender in the future.