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Characters · Illustration · Game art

Independent 2D artist / Tbilisi

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I turn characters, creatures and props into images with a story you can feel.

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Selected work

Production work

Line art

Hand-drawn · No AI.
Production-ready line art for games.

About / Dariya Dovhenko

Traditional training.
Eight years in games.
Still curious.

Painting is where I started, with years at art college before games entered the picture.

Since 2018 I’ve worked inside Nordcurrent, DEFU Games and GAMETEQ — taking characters from rough thumbnails to production-ready art.

Since July 2026 I’ve worked independently as a freelance 2D artist and visual generalist.

Now: Freelance 2D Artist & Visual Generalist
Before: Lead 2D Artist · DEFU Games
Based: Tbilisi, Georgia
Languages: English · Ukrainian · Russian

Selected experience

Production across PC, mobile and browser games.

GAMETEQ · January 2024—July 20262D Artist · Plarium's Throne: Kingdom at War and Vikings: War of Clans · Tbilisi, Georgia
DEFU Games · 2020—20232D Artist, then Lead Artist. Developed visual style and led 2D production across Love Camp, Pulse of Love, Candy Puzzle, Puzzle Kingdom, Money Rush and Egg Wars.
Nordcurrent · 2018—2019Illustrations, locations, props and concepts for Murder by Choice: Mystery Game.
Freelance · 2019—2020Illustrations, portraits and icons for indie teams and international clients.

Education

Fine art, design and technology.

Grekov Odesa Art CollegeFine Art · 2016—2018
International Humanitarian UniversityMA, International Organizations Management · 2016—2018
IT Step AcademyGraphic Design · 2015—2016
Odesa Polytechnic National UniversityBachelor’s degree, Computer Technology · 2010—2015

Notes from the margins

Sketchbook

Small studies, kept deliberately quiet at the edge of the finished work.

What I do

Production art pipelines,

Expressive characters, atmosphere, readable emotions and game-ready visuals.

Character design Key art Props & items Visual development

Two colourful therizinosaurs in a jungle

Creature illustration · Fan art

Therizinosaurus

Colour, atmosphere and creature storytelling

Key art / Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Flower field

3D environment / Blender

Midnight
fuel stop.

A real-world station rebuilt as a cinematic winter environment — from architectural reference and modular modelling to materials, lighting and final atmosphere.

Real location reference

Environment design
Modelling & texturing
Lighting & look development

Cinematic 3D gas station at night in snow — 01 Final frame / night lighting

02 / Process film

Storyboards to final frame

Process in motion

A painting is a sequence of decisions.

Watch the image move from broad structure to light, colour and final detail.

01 / Process film

Process film / KSOK

Process video

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II / portrait studies

From actors to characters.

Support independent art

Help the next story find its colour.

If a sketch, creature or tiny painted world made your day, you can leave a coffee for the work that comes next.

Support on Ko-fi

Available for selected projects

Have a world
to draw?

Beyond the portfolio

Get to know me beyond the screen.

Drawing is the centre of my practice, but curiosity rarely stays in one medium. Away from production work I paint, build tiny worlds and sculpt dinosaurs by hand.