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Weekly Review

This is going to be a long one, so be ready...

So this week I spent it finishing my first of many commissions for the upcoming game I told u guys about. Pretty happy with how it turned out, I finished that a few days ago, and now I'm back into training mode.

Recently I watched a tutorial, about making it as a concept artist in the industry, by Shaddy Safadi, and he talks about how concept art is what it is today, and that is, a cheat fest of all sorts of shit. Like using photos, and 3d models, and picking colors from ref, and straight out painting on top of pictures. And that that's just how it is. And if you want to get your game up to part and have any kind of shot at getting hired by big companies, you gotta do those things. And it made a lot of sense.

I look up to guys like Maciej Kuciara, and Jamie Jones, And those guys use all of those things to make their images, so why not? Shaddy said something that really got to me though, we are all going to die, very soon. There is no time to fuck around, just do what needs to be done to get their as fast as you can.

You know, I look around, and I'm like, what the fuck, I spent nearly 5 years in art school, been out for 3 months, there is no way I can support myself with what I am right now and what I can do. Im Living with my parents, training art like a mofo, and man, its hard, the progress is hard, like, Im 23, there are other mofos out there... 20 yrs old, who kick my ass, and use photos and 3d's and shit. Why not just do it, I want to enjoy my late 20's and not feel like a decade has passed and I've just gone through 10% more of progress in my career. Youth is invaluable, I cant think of anything fun I have ever done in life, like going to a different country and getting laid with some foreign beauty, skydiving, just, like an adventure somewhere unknown, I dont do shit, I feel like an android, cut away from society. And ok, so work as hard as I can for 5 more years to reach top notch lvl, and then grind at jobs, til I get enough money and establishment to do anything, you can get lost into that world, suddenly you are 35-40 you haven't done shit in life, your most beautiful years of youth are way past you, you will never get those back. And then that's just gone.
Why not speed it up?
Why try to kill myself perfecting perspective for years, when I can just learn modo or sketchup for a couple of weeks, and produce perfect architecture and paint on top of it, and have the best illustration I've ever done? That's gross, I despise all those shitty tricks man, using photos for 70% of the thing and calling it a painting, fuck that. But you know who doesn't give a shit? The clients, and the ones that pay the most, just want to see the fucking thing done as real as can be.

I will try to embrace some of that, I will learn modo, from now on. I will get back into Zbrush, I will learn how to matte paint. I will learn all this shit, to come out a more valuable artist sooner than later.
The commercial art world is spinning on this kind of wheels right now, If you want to be part of it, If you have the ambition to get to the top, you gotta do this. If you wanna get there and not be like a super stylized guy and all. Which is great too, I think that's even a better thing to be, your own kind of market, created by art you make, that's so different that everything else. But that's a story for another day.

Ok, this is long enough, fuck it. If you haven't already, I really recommend listening to this guy's talk, is just 3$ https://gumroad.com/onepixelbrush# Make your own conclusions, and decisions. I think I've made mine.
Not saying I will become one of those dude who just photo/3d bash the shit out of their work, I'm just saying, I will stop being ignorant, of these tools, that can give me the push I need to get out of this shit.