Artist — 04

The Artist

I operate at the intersection of structured thinking and creative design. My work pairs disciplined planning with hands-on digital craft — every asset is built like a system, not a one-off render.

By day, I am an Agri-Business Management undergraduate at the University of Ruhuna. That academic grounding in planning, systems and management shapes how I scope, structure and deliver complex creative work.

Equally, I am a 3D artist and visual creator specializing in hard-surface modeling, product visualization, and atmospheric environment design inside Blender. That structured mindset shows up as clean topology, efficient pipelines and deliberate lighting.

Dual lens: agribusiness management studies on one side, 3D art direction and technical craft on the other.

Academic & Management

Agribusiness Management (University of Ruhuna) · Project Planning · Systems Thinking · Client Communication

3D & Visual Arts

3D Modeling (Blender, ZBrush) · Procedural Workflows (Geometry Nodes) · Texturing (Substance Painter) · UI/Vector Design (Figma, CorelDRAW)

3D sculpted self-portrait of Pethum Kashmira
Viewport · Final Shaded · Still

3D Digital Self-Portrait — Sculpted in Blender

Toolkit

BlenderModeling / Sculpt
CyclesPath tracing
Eevee NextRealtime
Geo NodesProcedural
SubstanceTexturing
ZBrushHigh-poly
PhotoshopPost / Matte
CorelDRAWVector
FigmaLayout / UI
Three.jsRealtime web

Journey — 05

Milestone Timeline

Career path, technical growth and the leaps that shaped the way I model, light and present work today.

  1. Dec 2025 — Present

    Chief Executive Officer

    NEKPA · Sri Lanka

    Co-founded NEKPA alongside two partners. Leading operations, strategy, brand direction and creative output from inception.

    FounderLeadershipBrand
  2. 2025 — Present

    Freelance 3D & Visual Designer

    Independent · Fiverr Level 2 Seller · Remote

    Delivering 3D modelling, product renders, brand systems and web visuals for global clients. Level 2 Fiverr seller with a focus on hard-surface and product visualisation in Blender.

    BlenderClient workProduct renders
  3. Feb 2024 — Dec 2024

    Community Moderator

    Movement Labs · Remote · Sri Lanka

    Helped establish and moderate a large online creative-tech community, producing graphics, announcements and visual campaign assets.

    CommunityGraphicsCampaigns
  4. Dec 2023 — Aug 2024

    Node Operator

    Vana Foundation · Remote · Sri Lanka

    Operated testnet infrastructure, monitoring uptime and network integrity — the technical groundwork behind later real-time 3D and pipeline work.

    InfrastructureTechnical
  5. 2022 — 2024

    Visual & Web Design Practice

    Self-directed · Sri Lanka

    Built a design foundation across Figma, Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW — layout, typography and identity work that now informs every render composition.

    FigmaIllustratorCorelDRAW
  6. 2021 — 2022

    First Steps in 3D

    Blender · Self-taught · Sri Lanka

    Started in Blender with hard-surface modelling and lighting studies, moving from primitives to full quad-topology pipelines, UVs and PBR texturing.

    BlenderSelf-taughtHard surface

Education — 06

Learning Stack

Formal qualifications and technical certifications behind the practice — structure, discipline and a habit of studying pipelines.

May 2025 — Present

B.Sc. (Hons) Agri Business Management

University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka

Focusing on sustainable supply chain strategies and technology integration in agribusiness.

  • Faculty of Agriculture
  • Technology integration

Jul 2025 — Present

Chartered Accountancy — Business Level

Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka

Financial management, auditing and business strategy alongside creative practice.

  • Financial Accounting — Pass
  • Business Law — Pass
  • Business Maths & Stats — Pass
  • Audit & Digitalisation — Reading

2023

G.C.E. Advanced Level

Medirigiriya National School

Biology stream — Biology (S), Chemistry (C), Physics (C).

  • Biology stream

2020

G.C.E. Ordinary Level

Medirigiriya National School

8 Distinctions — Maths, Science, Sinhala, Buddhism, History, Civic Education, Agriculture, Music.

  • 8 Distinctions