Marta Nael
Marta Nael
Freelance Illustrator at Wizards of the Coast
Barcelona, Spain

Summary

From a very young age, I knew what I wanted to become as a grown-up. So my love for art started at a very early age. I have a love for all artistic disciplines but after completing a Fine Arts degree I started to learn digital art, matte painting and concept art, something which has enabled me to embark in a variety of projects from book and musical album covers, to concept art for videogames, and marketing illustrations amongst many others, with clients such as Blizzard, Wizards of the Coast and Deep Silver.

I would describe my work as a game of light and color, which gives way to colorful and painterly illustrations, whether they are characters, environments or concept art.

I got my first commissions in 2010 when I was finishing my Fine Arts degree and a year later I won ImagineFX Rising Stars award, and also Expomanga's Best Spanish Illustrator.

I've done tutorials for magazines such as Advanced Photoshop or ImagineFX and given many workshops in Spain, while also attending several Comic and Manga Cons in this country.

My work has appeared in many artbooks such as Digital Art Masters (3dtotal), Exotique (Ballistic), Sketching from the imagination (3dtotal), Prime books (3dtotal) or Infected by Art.

In the last 8 years I've published four artbooks with Spanish publisher Ediciones Babylon, two of them mainly digital, and the other two featuring only traditional media.

Skills

IllustrationBoardgames and Card artMarketing IllustrationBook Cover IllustrationConcept ArtCharacter Design

Software proficiency

Photoshop
Photoshop
DAZ Studio
DAZ Studio
ZBrush
ZBrush
Marvelous Designer
Marvelous Designer
Blender
Blender

Experience

  • Freelance illustrator & concept artist at WIZARDS OF THE COAST
    United States of America
    September 2019 - Present

  • Freelance illustrator at Blizzard
    July 2019 - August 2019

    Illustrations for the release of WoW Classic

  • Cover artist at Games Workshop
    January 2019 - January 2019

    Cover artist for Black Library: Necromunda's Kal Jerico - Sinner's bounty

  • Freelance promo artist for Battle for Azeroth WoW expansion at Blizzard Entertainment
    June 2018 - July 2018

  • Freelance artist for Dreamworks How to Train Your Dragon - Discover your Duo contest at Deviantart
    April 2019 - April 2019

  • Freelance promo artist for Agents of Mayhem at Deep Silver
    July 2017 - July 2017

  • Freelance artist for Twitch Con 2017 at Blizzard Entertainment
    October 2017 - November 2017

  • Freelance Cover artist at Big Dog Ink
    United States of America
    September 2018 - January 2019

  • Concept artist at SingularDTV
    April 2018 - May 2018

  • Freelance Card artist at Spooky South RPG game
    March 2018 - April 2018

  • Freelance marketing illustrator at Boreal Games/ Crystal Companies
    September 2017 - January 2019

  • Freelance promo artist for WoW: Legion at Blizzard
    August 2016 - August 2016

  • Illustrator, Art Editor and Art Director at EDICIONES BABYLON
    Ontinyent, Valencia, Spain
    April 2011 - August 2017

  • Freelance Concept Artist at Dark Ride Studios
    Barcelona, Spain
    September 2010 - October 2010