Experience

• Concept Artist, Lead Artist at ZA/UM

  Brighton, United Kingdom

  August 2020 - Present

  After a few years of working at a managerial role in an arts university I returned to gamedev after a year’s hiatus. I resumed my role as an artist at ZA/UM and six months later in 2021 took on the role of Lead Artist and Designer on Disco Elysium the Final Cut (2021)

• Head of Painting Department at Pallas University of Applied Sciences

  Tartu, Estonia

  September 2018 - January 2021

  I managed a small team of art instructors and our department of approximately 50 students every year. As an instructor I taught various subjects whichnincluded artist career development, project organization, figure drawing, and painting.

• Illustrator at Freelance

  Afghanistan

  January 2013 - January 2021

  As a freelance illustrator my main focus has been editorial illustration for print and the web and poster artwork. I have also designed multiple album covers and done preproduction concept work for films.

• Concept Artist / Level Designer at ZA/UM Studio

  Tallinn, Estonia

  August 2015 - July 2019

  As a member of the small, but talented ZA/UM art team I got to stick my fingers into pretty much every art pie we had cooking: from environments to characters to GUI elements.

  My main focus and responsibility was creating environments and props for the game's pre-rendered backgrounds – from concept to basic modelling & texturing in Blender to rendering and in-engine lighting. I also designed characters, sculpted and textured them in Blender and Photoshop.

• Lecturer/Art Instructor at Tartu Art College

  Tartu, Estonia

  September 2017 - June 2018

  During my time as a lecturer I instructed a figure drawing class for senior students and an introductory painting class for beginners and multiple shorter creative workshops.