Jobs Papua New Guinea

Character Illustrator (Intern/Trainee)

Job Title	Character Illustrator (Intern/Trainee)
Employer	Pathwise Careers
Adress: Country	Papua New Guinea
Address: City	Goroka
Work type	Part-time
Expected Salary	7250 PGK
Posting Date	Tue Jun 10 2025
End Date	Sun Jun 22 2025

Description:

We’re hiring an Illustrator Trainee who’s passionate about turning abstract ideas into clear, expressive visuals — no prior experience needed, just creativity, patience, and a love for drawing. You’ll work on real illustration tasks for marketing, education, branding, and digital media alongside senior creatives. We’ll teach you how to translate briefs into visuals, develop rough concepts, and refine your sketches into clean, purposeful art. You’ll help create icons, spot illustrations, character art, and decorative visuals for web, print, or motion. Expect to learn how to simplify complex ideas visually while keeping your work lively, relatable, and well-balanced. You’ll practice ideation through sketching, refining lines, and using feedback to improve clarity and composition. You’ll assist in creating thumbnails, sketches, and polished pieces while practicing clean file structure and layer organization. We’ll guide you in understanding how illustration supports brand identity, storytelling, and emotional tone. You’ll participate in team critiques, client presentations, and collaborative visual exploration.

Basic Qualifications:

• Revise sketches and final artwork based on feedback, while maintaining creative integrity.
• Support social media, editorial, or motion teams with quick turnaround assets when needed.
• Ensure all files are properly organized, layered, and formatted for developers or printers.
• Be proud of your craft—your illustrations are often the first thing people notice.
• Work closely with writers, designers, and art directors to match visuals with messaging and brand tone.

Preferred:

• Experience creating illustrations for books, branding, social media, games, or editorial use.
• Values creativity, originality, and clarity in every piece of visual work.
• Pays attention to visual consistency, proportions, and emotional expression in illustration work.
• Able to follow a brief and adapt illustration style to suit different audiences and brand voices.
• Strong understanding of composition, color theory, and visual storytelling techniques.

Benefits:

• We back your growth — courses, art cons, mentorship, or even launching your own print shop.
• Monthly art supply stipend — yes, even for that fancy brush set you love.
• Join a visual team that actually appreciates composition, detail, and texture.
• Help define a visual identity — not just “fill in” blank spaces.
• And yes, we really do care about kerning, shading, and proper line weight.

You’ll assist in exporting assets for print, web, or animation, ensuring they’re clean, layered, and production-ready. You’ll have the chance to contribute to internal campaigns, client projects, and branded illustration systems. You’ll build strong habits in visual communication, from mood boards to finished illustrations. This role is ideal for someone who loves visual thinking, notices tiny details, and wants to tell stories through lines and color. We’ll support you with feedback loops, internal projects, and a chance to contribute to real design pieces from the start. By the end of your traineeship, you’ll have a refined portfolio and a deeper sense of what kind of illustrator you want to become. You’ll leave with a stronger portfolio, real experience, and insight into how illustrators work within commercial teams. If you’re ready to illustrate not just what things look like — but what they mean — this is your place to begin.