Tom Barton

Tom Barton

Freelance IllustratorCoventry, United Kingdom
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Tom Barton

Tom Barton

Freelance IllustratorCoventry, United Kingdom
Projects
  • Olaf Vs Everything - Season 2
    Olaf Vs Everything - Season 2It's finally here! It's everyone's favourite barbarian Olaf and he's back to kick more butt and get flung around the many League of Legends skin universes. I had a blast working on this and the wait to release it and show everyone has been hard (like 8-12months). It's being released one page at a time this year instead of all twelve at once. To keep up to date, you can check them out here every monday at 18:00 GMT for the next 10 weeks: https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/page/olaf-vs-everything-
  • League of Legends - NA LCS Promo Illustration
    League of Legends - NA LCS Promo IllustrationThis was an image I was commissioned to do to promote ticket sales for the 2018 NA LCS Finals. I'd never worked with the esports team before but it was a really interesting project. They really wanted all the images to be part of one big image. I'd never done anything like it before so it was somewhat challenging at times.
  • League of Legends - Season 9 Promo Images
    League of Legends - Season 9 Promo ImagesFor the second image I wanted to focus on team play. So I took my favourite champions from the approved list and this is what came out. Not a massive fan of Yasuo in all honesty but I think it made sense for him to lead the charge. Sion is just the muscle and Jhin is busy in the background seemingly getting his euphoric kicks out of the beauty of death and all that. You can check them all out here: https://nexus.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/2019/01/community-artists-ring-in-season-2019/
  • Olaf Vs Everything - Season 1
    Olaf Vs Everything - Season 1Last year (2017) I collaborated with Riot Games community content creator, Ben Chabala to create a short comic based on the League of Legends champion, Olaf. Olaf is a viking-like character and lusts for the perfect death. The main premise of the comic is that he makes his way around the League of Legends universe fighting other champions in alternate dimensions where they may look different (skins).
  • Worlds 2018 Comic Page - KaBuM's final stand
    Worlds 2018 Comic Page - KaBuM's final standDid some work for the Esports guys over at Riot Games to tie in with Worlds 2018. This page is about KaBuM’s Tin0wn Vs Froggen 2014. Really loved working on this (especially Fizz’s shark).
  • Toy Design
    Toy DesignAs part of an interview with a toy company based in Leamington Spa, I was asked to complete a brief to design a vehicle for the G.I Joe franchise. The brief told me the type of scene/story that the vehicle would have to relate to (which involved mars and an underground base) and I had to design a suitable vehicle that kids could interact with accordingly. I had to put thought into how a child would play with it and what would make it interesting.
Work history
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    IllustratorFlorida Mayhem
    United StatesFreelance
    Current project.
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    Riot Games logo
    Content CreatorRiot Games
    United StatesFreelance
    I collaborated with community content creator and artist support guy, Ben Chabala at Riot Games to produce a web comic called "Olaf Vs Everything". We did two seasons of this short comic and during that time I also did a bunch of work for their eSports department including an incredibly wide promo image for the NA LCS finals to use on League of Legends Esports social media pages etc along with other social media promo images for both LA and Dublin.
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Skills
  • Film
  • Visual Arts
  • Design
  • Character Design
  • 3ds Max
  • Photoshop
  • Powerpoint
  • Sketchbook Pro
  • Concept art
  • Premiere Pro
  • Comic Art
  • Comic Book Art
  • Storyboarding
  • Concept Artist
  • Character Art
  • Character Development
Education
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    Art and Design FoundationCoventry University
     - Coventry, United Kingdom
    Art Foundation, Pass.