Progression of My Art
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| September - 2010 |
This was my first drawing from a tablet back during September of 2010. I had no experience with a tablet and had been using a mouse to draw on the computer. At this point, I never dreamed of becoming a concept artist or an illustrator. I didn't think I had the potential to.
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| September - 2010 |
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| December - 2010 |
During the winterbreak of the same year I practiced by using the different brush settings in photoshop. I also experimented with a lot of different techniques on creating art digitally. All I did during my winterbreak was watch tutorials online, inspire myself by looking at work done by professional artists in the industry, and PAINT PAINT PAINT. This is when I realize that it is possible to push myself to any skill I want. All I had to do was work for it.
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| March - 2011 |
Spring semester was when I started to use texture brushes. I realized how much more efficient you can be when using a cloud brush, foliage brush, and rock texture brush. This when I started to challenge myself by creating artwork as fast as I could. I would usually limit the my time to paint down to 1 hour. This forced to find shorcuts when painting in photoshop.
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| May - 2011 |
Summerbreak had just started and I went to this convention called Evolve CG. There I met the concept artist from the God of War franchise, Eric Ryan. He helped me tremendously by showing me techniques and gave me a list of references that I should use during my future paintings. Because of him, my next piece that I did shortly after jumped tremendously in quality. The piece above got me the Daily Deviation award on Deviantart. Gahh! I was speechless.
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| November - 2011 |
A couple of months after I got a job offer by a game company based in Turkey. They saw my work online and asked if I was interested on working illustrations for an online strategy game. Of course excited o'l me was like "Hell YEA!" I accepted the job during the summer and had a contract all the way down to winter. I was like a little school girl seeing my artwork in a game. It was like a sample of what could potentially happen in the future. This is when I made it my goal to be an art director one day at a triple A game company.
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| January - 2012 |
It was winterbreak again and I had just found out that I was accepted into FIEA, a masters program focused on game design. After celebrating, I was pretty much doing the same thing from the previous year. I wanted to see how much I progressed. So I painted an updated version of a piece from last winterbreak. It was clear on how much I had progressed out of that single year. It was nice to see that I was heading in the right direction.
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| Current |
So here I am now! Recently there was an art contest held by Riot Games, they are responsible for League of Legends. Later I received an email saying that my piece made it to the top 32 out of 4500 entries. I received an honorable mention for the art piece above. I can almost taste the game industry! There is so much that I still need to learn. During my next 2 years in FIEA, I am going to continue to improve my skills as an artist. I want to be able to graduate and have a strong portfolio that will get me into companies such as ArenaNet and Blizzard.
My progression will probably never will be over. It's because I love what I do, and I want to keep on getting better at it. If you want to become an concept artist or illustrator, DO IT! Look back on where I started. You CAN do it too.
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Hey RyomaNinja (or Adam or even Mr. Tazi :P whichever you prefer :P),
I wanted to let you know just how inspiring you are to me. Ever since you followed me on Twitter (still don't know why :P XD)I kept an eye on you as fellow artist... thought I just started out this summer.
Ofcourse I was also inspired by other artist, but those where all professionals. You're a little closer, but yet so far away in skill. (kinda cliché but hé ;))
You inspired me more when you did some tutorials, even followed them ( where kinda crappy though :P my painting that is XD ) and asked your opinion on it ( you probably don't remember though, which is logical)
And now too see your progress is kinda awesome and even more inspiring.
You mentioned that you had a goal to become a Art-director for an triple A studio and became as good as some artist you admire and defeat them in the good way as rivals.
Well for me you're one of my goals along with Feng Zhu ^^
And I will see you as a Senpai/rival if that's okay with you.
Also my dream is too start a game company with my friends ( which is currently happening) and become one of the bests eventually!
Anyway this became much longer then I thought... sorry XD I just wanted to say:
Thanks for inspiring me, and I hope will meet someday as professional artists at a higher level then we're now ;)
Greets,
Kevin Huiting/KendoGrandon
Hey Kevin!
Thanks for your kind words and I do remember you asked for a critique on your piece inspired by the Demon Girl. Sorry I must have forgotten to write a critique back haha.
I have seen you gallery and I must say that your improving really well over the past couple of months. I think you are definitely on your way on becoming an awesome artist. Maybe one day we will meet in the professional world.
Keep up the awesome work man and thanks again for the kind words. If you need any help on anything... don't be afraid to ask. I will remember next time to write back... haha!
-RyomaNinja
^^
Thanks!
And will do ;)
Greets,
Kevin
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