Bianca Milanez


Bianca Milanez

Illustration


Bianca Milanez

Concept Art

Arcane Eats by Wonderbelly

A roguelike deckbuilder with a delicious twist. Think like a master chef, balancing resources as you strategically combo ingredients to subdue hungry hordes.
I was taken with doing some of the in game assets for: ingredients, items & enchantments.

Play 4 Equality by FunPunch Games

Play4Equality is a narrative mobile game where the player takes part in a short story behind a simulated smartphone interface, through video calling, texting and social media. You play the role of a character in a group of high school friends who want to go to a beach house on vacation.
Concept Art/Character exploration + in game art.
The game was developed by FunPunch Games commissioned by the Portuguese Red Cross .

At this point we only had the descriptions/base of the friend group, so I started with a few explorations and possible dynamics since we also didn't have any key moments of the story decided. I sometimes like to start with faces both as a warm up but also as a way to get to know them better.
We already knew a few other members of their families who would possibly show up, Marta's abusive boyfriend, Ana's family, Antonio's girlfriend and his lil brother (who was my absolute favorite to design in case it wasn't obvious) + a few possible instagram posts.

The next step was figuring out their FaceTime poses, we gave each character a distinctive color palette and tried to show their personalities and tastes through these small windows.
They were all later animated by my supervisor Tiago Franco who did a killer job, might have even teared up watching them move!
(fun story: we later got more funding to add voices and my sister got chosen for Ana's voice)
By this point I was also working on the main character options, we wanted a diverse group of friends so their body shapes were chosen in comparison to the already existing characters.

At first the client only wanted 2 visual options for the main character (you choose your gender separately) but later on decided to add a more non binary version.In the game you interact with the characters in social media apps like instagram, where you got a glimpse of the gossip from school, saw what your friends were up to, comments etc. And together with a messaging app, it was where you saw the story unfolding.

Promotional image I did for when we launched the game.

Bianca Milanez

Character Design


Bianca Milanez

Comics

Unfamiliar

A witch’s crow familiar seeks revenge in an eldritch tantrum after coming home to find his master dead and hovel burned. A supernatural horror from the point of view of a beloved pet.Story: Wells Thompson

The Relentless Adventure

Lainie Choi and Jane Robinson have more in common than they or anyone else might realize. To start, they’re both superheroes. Lainie is following in the fleet footsteps of her Silver Age speedster grandfather, Bullet, while Jane’s been trained by her father since she was 12 to replace him as a globe-trotting vigilante.Story: Jordan Alsaqa & Mark Stack
Art: Bianca Milanez
Letters: Lucas Gattoni

Late Night Snack

9 page comic, exploring through colors and texture feelings of friendship (and maybe more), and using food as a love language.

Bursting for You

This 3 page comic was made for the 2024 comic jam hosted by WebComicsHub, the theme was the word "bubble". I teamed up with my good friend Fish, she wrote the script & I brought it to life in a spam of two days because life got in the way.

The Owl House before For the Future

I dealt with my waiting for the episodes on the last season of the Owl House very maturely, and by that I mean making fan comics of what I thought would happen.

Konbini run

We could choose one of the three prompts "konbini, pocky and confession" but I decided to use all of them. Crushing on your best friend sure is hard.


Bianca Milanez

Personal Projects


Bianca Milanez

Bianca is a comic artist from Brazil based in Lisbon, Portugal.From epic classics full of adventure to sappy romances with funny misunderstandings, she's all about queer stories filled with rich and colorful characters you'd wanna be friends with. Her interests include mythology, history, folklore and supernatural creatures with a side of academia and found family.Drawing on her personal experience growing up across different regions of Brazil and later on both sides of the Atlantic, Bianca's work seeks to explore themes of belonging, culture and finding a place and people you can call home.She has a bachelor degree in Drawing from the Fine Arts University of Lisbon as well as a specialisation in Concept Art by ETIC where she currently teaches.Bianca is represented by Maeve MacLysaght at Aevitas Creative Management