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I’m an illustrator and designer based in Perth, Western Australia. I spend my time creating fresh, contemporary work across apparel, branding, and graphic design. Whether I’m working solo or in a studio for clients locally or abroad, my style is heavily inspired by modern visual culture. I love collaborating with people who appreciate clean execution and a purpose that stands the test of time.
Freelance Creative specialising in 3D, motion and graphic design. Self-taught while completing an Advanced Diploma in Graphic Design at Northern Metropolitan TAFE, before joining Perth agency BLOCK as a Junior Creative. Spent three and a half year years creating work that helped brands stand out. Passionate about blending creative with emerging and established technology to craft engaging visual experiences.
Based elsewhere in Australia, working with Perth businesses remotely.
Hi, I'm Katie. Founder and Director of The Creative Lodge. With over twenty years in brand strategy, design, marketing, and business development, I bring a strategic lens to every project I work on. Since starting the business in 2019, I've helped multiple businesses in the property, finance, government, wellness, and consulting sectors grow their businesses and revenue through strategic thinking and good design. My philosophy has always been to become an extension of your team, acting in your best interests and creating assets that empower you to feel in control of your business, brand and marketing. This is why The Creative Lodge specialises in delivering well-crafted websites in Squarespace, branding that is thoughtful and considered, but not complex, and communication design that is compelling and designed to win over your clients.
I'm an experienced Graphic & Presentation Designer. I can help with logo design, branding development, print brochures, publications, presentations, banners and all sorts of digital design projects. If you have a design idea you'd like to explore, feel free to run it by me! Based in Sydney's Inner West.
I'm a Senior Integrated Graphic Designer with 15+ years of experience in Digital, Print, Freelance Services and Marketing Design, working full-time as part of the Marketing Team in Nu Skin Pacific, and as a freelancer at OBUK Design. I specialize in print and digital design, EDMs, social media, reels, signage, stationery, POS, and videos. I have worked in many industries, including: skin care, beauty, wellness, retail, e-commerce, fashion and hospitality, among others. I have +6 years of experience in remote work with worldwide clients from Argentina, Australia, Canada, the UAE, UK and USA. I'm a quick learner and have been involved in copywriting for email marketing and social media as well, creating catchy and attention-grabbing headlines that people enjoy reading. I have a very cheerful and proactive personality, with proficiency in organisation, teamwork and time-management. Let's connect!
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Concept sketches, then a finished character in your style, usually with a small set of poses or expressions and a reference sheet showing colours, proportions and construction. A typical gig moves through rough concepts, one chosen direction, then final artwork. You should get the artwork in vector or high-resolution raster, plus the reference sheet and source files.
A silhouette you can recognise with the detail stripped out, and a personality that matches how your business actually talks. Characters fail when they are generic (a smiling blob in your brand colours) or when they are drawn once and never again. Design for reuse: if it cannot be redrawn in new poses, it will not survive its first campaign.
Usually 2 to 4 weeks. Concepts come quickly, but the middle stage of narrowing to one direction and refining it is where the time goes, and it is worth not rushing. Adding poses, expressions or an animation-ready build extends it. Give clear feedback at the concept stage, since changing direction after final artwork means starting again.
AI tools can help explore looks early on, and plenty of illustrators use them for reference. Where they fall short is consistency and ownership: you need the same character redrawn accurately in new poses for years, and generated output is difficult to reproduce exactly or to claim clearly. Use it for exploration, and have an illustrator design the thing you will actually own.
Agree this in writing before the gig starts. Standard practice on Unjumble is that you own the final artwork once the gig is signed off and paid, but assignment of copyright should be stated explicitly, especially for a character you plan to build a brand around. Ask about the concepts you did not choose too, and about whether the illustrator can show the work in their portfolio.
Layered source files, high-resolution exports of each pose and expression, vector versions if the style suits it, and the reference sheet. The reference sheet matters most: it is what lets a different illustrator draw your character consistently later without redesigning it.
In Perth, a single character with a couple of poses typically runs $800 to $2,500. A fuller build with an expression set, several poses and a reference sheet more commonly lands at $3,000 to $6,000, and a character built for animation with a rig sits higher. Ongoing artwork is usually quoted per piece afterwards.
The range on this page runs from about $49 to $164 an hour. Around $49 to $66 is a junior designer, $58 to $115 covers most gigs (an experienced designer working solo), and above $123 is a design lead. Character work is closer to illustration than layout, so it sits toward the upper half of the band and is usually quoted per piece.
Look for characters they have drawn in multiple poses, not just one hero image, since consistency is the real test. Check their style genuinely suits yours rather than hoping they can switch. Agree the ownership terms before the first stage starts.
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