Digital Manga Background Artist (Haikei-Gakari)

Job Description

We're looking for manga artists to join our growing team! If you're an artist with experience in this field, this position is perfect for you!

Responsibilities:

• Design and focuses exclusively on setting the scene, environment, and world-building.
• Ensure the characters exist in a believable, three-dimensional space, allowing the manga artist to focus entirely on the characters and action.
• Perspective Grid Layouts: Establish precise 1-point, 2-point, and 3-point perspective grids for every panel based on character placements and camera angles.
• Environment Drafting: Draw highly detailed indoor and outdoor settings, including urban streets, fantasy landscapes, historical architecture, and natural elements.
• Prop & Vehicle Illustration: Create accurate, scale-appropriate drawings of everyday items, furniture, weapons, cars, or futuristic machinery.
• 3D Asset Integration: Position, trace, or paintover 3D models (using Clip Studio Paint, Blender, or SketchUp) to speed up background production while maintaining a hand-drawn look.
• Screen Tones & Texturing: Apply digital screentones, cross-hatching, and textures to backgrounds to create depth, shadow, and environmental mood (e.g., lighting, weather).
• Character Line Art Blending: Ensure the line weights and textures of the backgrounds seamlessly blend with the manga artist's character art style.
• Editorial & Revision Collaboration: Work with writers, editors, or project managers to adjust panel composition, fix continuity errors, and meet tight serialization or delivery deadlines.

Requirements:

• Has creativity and good sense of art, proven experience as a manga background artist, with a strong portfolio of work
• Strong illustration skills, mastery of perspective, and understanding of spatial composition.
• Proficiency in digital drawing tools such as Clip Studio Paint, Adobe Photoshop, or Manga Studio.
• Strong understanding of architectural drawing, environmental design, and lighting/atmosphere.
• Willing to work as a team. Ability to work collaboratively with character artists to maintain a unified visual style.
• Some may only have worked as part of a group or drawn background art specifically, rather than developing characters from scratch.
• PLUS: Traditional media skills

This position is fully remote and open to Indonesia-based applicants only.

Applicants who submit earlier and meet the criteria will be prioritized during our review process.

The schedule shown may change depending on the number of applicants received.

📅 Application form closes on 27th November 2026 at 23:59 (UTC+7)

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