My First Blog

Hi and welcome to my first ever blog and my first post.

So first of all I'm going to start by telling you something little about me and my background. I'm 21 years old and from Yeovil somerset UK. I joined the Army when I was 16 years old, I have always been an artist at heart so after 5 long long long years in the Army I left to pursue a career as a Games Artist. why a games artist? well all my life I have loved drawing and designing comics and game characters, and when I wasn't drawing and attempting to have a social life I played games, alot alot of games and that hasn't changed. you could say I'm addicted but nah!! I'm just a gamer.

But before my dream job becomes a reality I have enrolled at St Helens college to get a (BA) Hons degree in Game Art to broaden my skills as an artist and learn new skills to help me achieve my goal. So over the next three years I will be uploading my hard work on this blog and every now and then upload some cool gaming news and nerdy stuff.

Week 1

In my first week, after all the meeting and greeting we learnt the basics of 3d modeling using 3DS MAX and Photoshop then we got to work on our first project. modeling a cardboard box. Sounds simply right? WRONG! well making the box shape was easy but then it gets complicated. Once you have the object we then have to texture the box shape to make it look like a real box as it is designed to be imported into a game. after applying all the different layers it started to look good.

This is my box ! looks pretty real right?, it almost fooled me, well it actually did fool many of my friends and family when I uploaded pictures onto Facebook, they were like ' Why are you uploading pictures of a random cardboard box' HA HA idiots!! then I decided to add flooring and lighting to make it look even more impressive!

And there it is ! oh did anyone notice my added batman sticker!

Once a week we have life drawing classes and game studies, this is when we improve our skills as an artist by going back to the old roots with no computers, just good old pencil and paper. Every week we use different art medium eg pencils and charcoal, with different objects and lighting. the first week was a few random objects and a manikin ( haven't got a real life model yet!). this is how it came out.

Obviously I didn't get to finish it but I was happy with it.

In the second week our next project was to model a whole room which is what I'm currently working on now so please stayed tuned for the next post coming soon about my model room. Pictures included!!

Thank you for reading my post.  

If you are interested in Game art and want help with anything on how to get into being a games artist I am happy to help, just send me a message or email and  will get back to you ASAP thank you.