Darktiste Sketchbook

[darktiste]

I see. I definitely feel a lot of discomfort using a mouse after a long time because clicking with bent wrist uses your carpal tunnel. but it could also depend on the mouse. If youhave ergonomic one that allows you to keep your wrist straight that might be alright. I think now knowing that you only use mouse a lot of your previous work makes sense because you're not working with pen pressure which is the main technique for shading gradients and modeling form, so you naturally need to use selections and soft brushes. I think a tablet is pretty indispensable for my work but I guess it's not one size fits all and it does hurt my hand as well after a while so idk.

I think you can get gradient pretty easly aslong as you get the selection stage pretty solid i personally i am very inspired by the realm of animation aswell as comic my main focus is for idea to read quickly but also far enough from the classic representation that it been done a gazillion time .I find that gradient are more time consuming but that are certainly necessary for added realism but it really come down to the style i am call to do on a case by case scenario if i would be to work for someone else obviously not necessarily choosing to show alot of work that involve gradient might attract a specific client base which is also i think useful to attract the type of people i want to work with but also kinda limiting.

Having a few style is better then being a one trick poney for sure i dont think i have a distinct style yet so i think to build and identity limiting the style you show not necessarly that you work in is better because you dont put a question in the mind of people reviewing portfolio.It kinda hard to show that you can also adapt if you take that approach you cant be everything to everyone. I specially believe this is truth in the AAA world and less of a thing in indie game because you are call to be more role then just one because they dont have the budjet to attract the people with more specialize skillset.So i feel that i personally i resonate more with indie game just because the style are simple the color are often saturated and i am a concept artist and somewhat of a modeller so i have more chance to stick around as thing move further down the pipe.

My main problem is when it come to designing a variety of subject matter i definitively fall in the AAA type i have a specialty and i am less of a jack of all trade.

When it come to tool i am not to hot on making change aslong as i am able to have enough time to rest and work everything is fine but if workload get cramp that where fatigue ramp up and that where i think i would feel the necessity to play around with different tool. Ideally i would work from home to reduce time lost in transportation that could be use to rest between episode of crunch but obviously i dont want to be forever dodging issue.To put it simple right know i am just in the capacity to work around the carpal tunnel issue by having compassion and not pushing myself unnecessary ideally i would work lengthy period of time but i can afford to spread my work time so this allow me to avoid fatigue.Anyways i am not a strong believer in large period of work i personally do not have that type of concentration and i think it fantastic that taking pause can also help refresh your eye and it detach you from some bad decision you were engaging in but had the capacity to reflect on after coming back refresh.I think we take bad decison to often when we are expecting a result right away and i think that using the same approch everytime is flawed as much as i would live to believe there is a perfect workflow that not the case.But it also boring i dont just want to be creative with my result i want to be involve with the process.I want my process to feel like i am evolving as an artist.Not necessarly that the process is more complex to achieve the same result but that i have many option that could lead to similar result.