Hej, I'm Twarda
I'm a freelancing artist and game developer with a MSc in biology based in Poland.

I've been drawing for as long as I can remember. Comic books, particularly classic European ones, and animation are among my earliest sources of inspiration. Biology and paleontology are another passion of mine.I continued building up my art skills, eventually expanding from traditional art to digital art.

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Tabletop games

Zniw Adventure is a Point & Click adventure game in which the player follows the misadventures of the main dinosaur heroine - Zniw. The game's strong points are the story-telling and the living, breathing world within which the player can be immersed. Lots of animations make the adventure fun to experience.

The game was co-created with my partner & programmer, Łukasz Mikołajczyk, who wrote a lot of custom code for it and helped with writing. I was responsible for the visual side of the project, UI, game and world design, script & writing, flow, animation, and various pixel art assets, as well as for scientific accuracy.The game is available on these platforms:

Cover art

The cover art was designed with various formats in mind: from Steam's requirements to square-ish jewel boxes and extremely long Switch game boxes.The illustration has various references to Zniw's adventure in it, which become apparent as the player progresses through the game.

Process

Dinopedia

The optional dinopedia fills up during the player's adventures. Fitting all the info into the game's small resolution proved to be challenging. Its major functions are to familiarize the player with the encountered creatures and scientific terms, as well as provide some extra word building detail and lore.

Location thumbnails from Dinopedia:

Promotional art & sketches

(in development)

Zid Journey is a Point & Click adventure game where the story further explores the dinosaur world set in the first game, Zniw Adventure. The player follows Zid who tries to find the parents of the lost Daspletosaurus hatchling. On this journey, Zid also hopes to find his origins...

Many issues we encountered in the first game were alleviated with a bigger team and Kickstarter funds. But this also meant that my partner's and my responsibilities expanded to project and team management. This time the full-screen cutscenes were handled by GS Animation Studio, allowing us to focus more on the development. I provided art references and storyboards and acted as a creative lead to aid the animation process. My other roles from the previous game stayed similar.The demo can be played here:

Reference sheets

Promo art

Beastieball is turn-based volleyball RPG game with some monster-taming mechanics developed by Wishes Unlimited. I designed several Beasties for the project and worked on their pose charts.

Bildit - the blue starter Beastie

Unused concepts

From the writer and scripter through card game features, to royal architect but ultimately - the masurpial digger. There was a lot to unpack!

Gastic - the bug that fight with gases

The little insect is the actual beastie. The final stage features a gaseous batwolf.

Dragon-horseshoe crab

Skink with a fake head

Inspired by blue-tongued skink, pinecones, and sausages.

Loud disruptor lizard

It was the first design I made for Beastieball: I was asked to make a loud and flashy lizard while following the design guidelines. Since frilled lizard was too obvious, I explored fan-throated lizards and toad-headed agama, with a bit of chameleon.

Seabird

The inflatable sack(s) allows it to stay afloat. The wings of the adult serve as the sail.

Swift

Since I like swifts I'm glad I managed to push one into the project ;)

Pose charts

I also did pose charts on already finalized designs by other artists

Colors Live is a painting app for the Nintendo Switch developed by Collecting Smiles. It also features Colors Quest - a painting challenge mode with its own tricky rules.I was asked to work on seasonal Colors Quest variants. This included designing the challenges, the map layout, and various art assets.

Spring Quest

splash screen

map

work in progress

Halloween Quest

splash screen

map

work in progress

Dragon & Unicorn Collector

A card game for kids. Around 2018 I was asked to do quick creature designs and card illustrations for this project.

Character art

Tales of Eukarya is an upcoming educational card game for kids that aids in learning English. I designed several characters, illustrated their Key Art, and created various other related materials.

Character art

Additional illustrations

Concepts

Still life & life studies I did on the Nintendo Switch.
These paintings were painted in 2021 - 2022

Some portraits of very lively birds.
Painted on the Nintendo 3DS hence the small size.
Ca. 2014/2015

A series of art studies which I painted on the Nintendo 3DS.
The small size is due the system limitations.
Most of these paintings come from 2013 - 2014

Some early paintings I did to practice my craft. These are studies of two statuettes I owned. Painted with digital software GIMP, ca. 2012 - 2013

Realistic pokemon. Older works from 2011 - 2017