Today I graduated in Game Art with a First. I’m massively proud of myself, university never felt like an option for me, but it’s the best choice I ever made. I struggled a lot during my second year and I wasn’t sure I would be able to pass, let alone achieve a first, but I managed to pull through. Hope this is a good place to post this!

Recently it’s been pretty rough in my family life, and it really hit my ability to create for the last week or so. But seeing everyone’s work is so inspiring and has made me pick up my pen and tablet again and come in with fresh ideas. My goal is to have enough portfolio pieces fleshed out by the end of Q1 2025 and be able to apply with fresh work to industry jobs at the beginning of Q2. I’ve began this months first challenge, and even though I may not complete, I’ll be happy with the progress I make and I’ll be ready to tackle the second one head on. Thanks to all of you for making killer art making me inspired again!

Did a Space Miner for the challenge this week, little fun doodle to join everyone :D

Used the bee for the wings , goggles and antenna hair The camera was used as general tech inspo for the hard surface and it's colors and the Gem was used for the colors and some patterning originally I was exploring some more green with the Hardlight pieces to be more green like the Bee, but I thought it was a bit too distracting.

With his kingdom lost to time, the Royal Guard Captain of the Crystal Rose still roams the dark ruins, sworn to protect it until releaved of his duty. This challenge was indeed a challenge for me! I wanted to focus on making a stylized character with exaggerated shapes. The character went through A LOT of iterating, both before and after settling on a design. The camera reference was also very hard for me to incorporate without making anything ''tech-y'' so I ended up only using it loosely as a shape for the flower motif instead. Ulitimately I had a lot of fun and went for a dark souls inspired feel!