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| One of my most recent drawings of a Cathedral in Madrid...(more for reference to see if I improve and if so, how much) |
I didn't always want to be a Games Artist-from a young age I went through a catalogue of career prospects-some more predictable than others...ballet dancer; vet, then when I got to college I wanted to go into Forensic Science, so I spent a year doing AS Levels...but I had a lot of personal stuff going on that year and how badly I did reflected how bad I am at focusing on those kind of subjects when I have other stuff going on...which isn't for a sympathy vote, I learnt a lot about myself that year, especially that if I can't focus on something when I have other things in my mind then there is no point trying to follow it further because things could have been a lot worse. After that I did a year of a course that I was neither interested in nor enthusiastic about, before deciding I wanted to go into tattooing...I took a year out, worked in a Department Store for a year as the apprenticeship didn't work out, and knew there is no way I could do that for the rest of my life. So I went back to college, I took an Art Course and began the year wanting to go into Fine Art..but that soon changed.
Basically I've always got bored easily, of things, of people, if it's not someone or something that I care immensely about then chances are I won't see it through to the end, which is a fault that I really need to work on because in life things aren't always going to be however you want them to be.
Games Art came to me by chance-a friend of mine was studying a mixture of Games Art and Design at Staffordshire University, and I spent a lot of time there. It really opened my eyes to the amount of work and talent that's required to make a good game. Some of the work he was producing perhaps wasn't to the greatest standard, but the idea behind it intrigued me. I took some time out and did some research of my own, and after looking at various different artists' work I was in love.
I've never been a gamer, I've been financially independent since I was 15 and games and consoles seemed like an unnecessary necessity to me when I was paying for everything that I NEEDED. It didn't really interest me at that point, I'd rather hang out with friends and not have to spend any money. However that's not to say if the option arose I wouldn't go with it...my brothers, who are both younger, have always been into games, and even though I wasn't very good at them I'd still take them on if they wanted me to (Which lead to a lot of embarrassment!)
But cutting my life story short, basically, even after the first couple of weeks of the course, I'm still crapping my pants...I don't have my own computer as I've never had the money, so I'm not able to do my work 24/7, I have to use the PC labs in our faculty building which have limited opening times...I have to work because I have a lot of things to pay for not covered by the usual funding...so I'm kinda in panic mode now because I don't feel I'll have the time to do everything I need to do to get as good as I need to get. I'm still confused by 3DS Max-don't even know where to start! And I know I'm eventually going to need to learn Maya as well which is making it feel even worse...but I'm a mature student which supposedly means I should be able to manage my time and finances better (though I'm not too sure!), and I've always been a fighter...when I'm determined and want to get something done I will always fight tooth and nail to do so...
So Games Industry watch out-I've started my journey and there is nothing that will stop me from getting to where I need to be and doing what I would love to do.
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