Nicholas Patrick Kelana

Nicholas Patrick Kelana

Concept Artist

Nicholas Patrick is a concept artist currently working at Brainbug, an outsource concept art studio. He works with a small, tightly-knit team of concept artists in offering design solutions for a plethora of clients, with each project requiring expertise in different types of visual style.

Having also previously worked with Milky Tea, a game development studio in Liverpool, Patrick experienced being involved in studios’ self-developed IP and being a part of a development pipeline.

In the middle of his concept art career, he also went to teach at Teesside University, before re-joining the concept art field.


Nicholas Patrick Kelana


Events featuring Nicholas Patrick Kelana

CA Talk 2 - Becoming a Concept Artist after University

Anton Juntunen | Freelance
Nicholas Patrick Kelana | Brainbug Design

In this talk, Nicholas and Anton will dive into their first steps within the industry - sharing their personal experiences of moving from graduates to professional artists.

They’ll explore the challenges presented when working on different types of projects and the changes in working style you might encounter between studio types.

Nicholas Patrick and Anton Juntunen are concept artists working in the video game field. As a concept artist in Brainbug, an outsource concept art studio, Patrick works with a small team of concept artists offering design solutions for various clients, their work for each embodying a different visual style.

Anton is currently working at Rebellion, one of Europe’s biggest independent multimedia studios involved in development and publishing. He designs various video game assets including characters, weapons and environments for current game developments.

Both graduated from Teesside University in 2021.

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