About the Role

This role is for a Concept Artist to create artwork inspired by football players, culture, and iconic moments, developing murals, portraits, graphic artwork, and environmental visuals for a realistic football-inspired game world. The artist will work closely with the World Art Director, Concept Art Lead, Narrative Designers, and World Art team. The role requires strong illustration and design skills, including portraiture, painting, graphic design, and an understanding of large-scale murals in architectural environments. The artwork should feel authentic to the locations, communities, and visual cultures it represents.

Key Responsibilities

- Design high-quality concept art, environmental graphics, murals, and portraits, featuring real-world football players, teams, and culture.
- Utilize photographic references and gather deep cultural insights to ensure characters, environments, and locations are regionally authentic.
- Explore and apply a wide range of visual styles, including illustration, street art, stencil, collage, lettering, and painted mural aesthetics.
- Generate rapid thumbnails and design explorations to pitch ideas, then develop selected concepts into highly polished artwork with strong composition, lighting, and storytelling.
- Design artwork tailored to architectural spaces - considering scale and surrounding structure - while incorporating graphic elements like typography, patterns, and signage.
- Present work clearly, iterate quickly based on feedback, and adapt designs to meet established Art Direction.




- Work within technical file specifications and production schedules, collaborating across disciplines to successfully bring concepts into the game.

Required Experience & Qualifications

- Strong drawing, painting, composition, colour, and visual storytelling skills.
- Ability to create realistic figures, characters, and environments from reference.
- Understanding of anatomy, perspective, lighting, and proportion.
- Ability to create both realistic and stylized artwork.
- Strong visual problem-solving and an ability to explore multiple creative directions.
- Ability to understand creative briefs and transform ideas into transparent and engaging visual concepts.
- Ability to create recognizable portraits and figures from photographic reference.
- Understanding of facial structure, anatomy, expression, and likeness.
- Interest in developing portraiture skills and translating real people into different visual styles.
- Good understanding of composition, visual hierarchy, colour, typography, shape, and graphic design.
- Interest in mural art, street art, environmental graphics, illustration, or other large-format artwork.




- Ability to combine figurative artwork with graphic elements to create cohesive designs.
- Understanding of how artwork can be adapted to architectural or environmental spaces.
- Curious about different artistic styles, cultures, and visual references.Comfortable adapting to different creative directions and art styles.

Preferred Skills

- Interest in sport, music, fashion, street culture, or contemporary visual art is a plus.
- Experience creating murals, street art, environmental graphics, or large-format artwork.
- Strong portraiture or likeness skills.
- Experience with graphic design, typography, or lettering.
- Experience creating artwork for games or interactive environments.
- Experience with sports, entertainment, fashion, or cultural IP.
- Knowledge of football players, clubs, leagues, and global football culture.

Workplace

- Onsite at EA Vancouver (Burnaby office) required 3 days per week (Tuesday-Thursday).
- 6-month contract with possibility of longer term employment.

Benefits & Perks

- Vacation (3 weeks per year to start).
- 10 days per year of sick time.
- Extended health/dental/vision coverage.
- Basic life insurance.

About the Company

EA SPORTS is one of the world's leading sports entertainment brands, known for top-selling video game franchises, award-winning interactive technology, and cross-platform digital experiences. EA SPORTS creates connected gaming experiences that bring the emotion of sports to life through industry-leading titles, including Madden NFL, EA SPORTS FC, NHL, NBA LIVE, and UFC.

📌 Concept Artist (Football Murals/Street Art) - EA SPORTS FC (Vancouver)
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