Portrait study by Abolfazl Shamsadini
Available for freelance work

Character Designer & Digital Painter — Yazd, Iran

Faces built forworlds that don't exist yet.

I paint people who belong to stories — warriors, nobles, and rogues rendered with cinematic light and enough history in their eyes that you want to know what happens next.

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About

BA in Painting, University of Yazd — academic grounding in anatomy, color, and art history.

Abolfazl Shamsadini

I'm Abolfazl Shamsadini, a character designer and digital painter based in Yazd, Iran.

My work sits between illustration and design — building faces, costumes, and small pieces of backstory that hold up under cinematic lighting. Every piece starts as a line sketch and is carried through to a finished painting, so the construction stays visible even in the final image.

Services

  • Character Design
  • Digital Painting
  • Illustration
  • 2D Art
  • Visual Development

Tools

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Selected Work

Personal character design projects, 2025.

The Enchanted Warrior — final headshot painting The Enchanted Warrior — grayscale value study Value study Final

Character Design & Digital Painting — 2025

The Enchanted Warrior

A noble female warrior with a glowing power in her hands. The piece focuses on elegant costume design, cinematic lighting, and the process from grayscale value study to final painting — drag the divider to compare.

Software: Adobe Photoshop Year: 2025
The Enchanted Warrior — full figure with glowing sword

Character Design & Digital Painting — 2025

The Enchanted Warrior, in full

Software: Adobe Photoshop Year: 2025

The same warrior, carried through to a full figure: a glowing blade, a loose veil catching the light, and the sketch-to-paint process kept close to the surface of the final piece.

Line sketch stage
Line sketch
Rendering stage
Rendering
Final painting
Final painting
Noblewoman — personal character design work
Noblewoman line sketch

Personal Work — 2025

Noblewoman

An enigmatic noblewoman, built as a study in cinematic lighting, atmosphere, and detailed character design — the kind of portrait that implies a much larger story around her.

Software: Adobe Photoshop Year: 2025

More Work

Pirate Character Set

A series of pirate characters painted in the same stylized approach for a consistent visual language across the set — bold shapes, exaggerated proportions, and expressive faces. Designed with animation, games, and visual development in mind.

Pirate character design — full figure with blue sash
Pirate character design — old bearded pirate with eye patch
Pirate character design — wide-eyed pirate headshot
Pirate character design — hook-nosed pirate on purple background
Pirate character design — torch-holding pirate with peg leg
Pirate character design — masked head with party hat

Software: Adobe Photoshop — Year: 2024

Let's build a character together.

Open to character design, digital painting, and visual development work — for games, animation, or your own original world.

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