07-15-2018, 12:17 PM
Olooriel: Hey, thanks! :) Yeah-- gotta love Scott Robertson! Thanks, I'll check it out for sure. <3
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So, school has been chaos, and not quite what I expected. I hoped for structure, but.. Oh well. Apparently that's what it's like in the game industry, too-- Nobody really knows what they're doing. It's kinda funny.
It's been good for me, but much of that goodness is through negative struggles. It's okay-- I'll be done at the end of December.
I think that I greatly underestimated my ability to learn the software and master the skills alone. Now I'm in school, and there is a cost. I'm happy to live in Canada, where the cost is buffered somewhat, but it is still a cost that will cling awhile. I've learned a lot though, and gained valuable friendships and connections.
I've also found profound insights into what it really means to make original work, and have shed a lot of my old assumptions about 'stealing'.
I am still most interested in concept art. It surprised me a bit. I was expecting that I would find these new potentialities to be of interest, and maybe even easier to get into, but they aren't as high on my job seeking list. Any job in the game industry right now still seems like a distant dream, somehow, though, and I feel like I shouldn't be picky-- It seems like something extremely difficult to get.
If it actually happens, I have no idea what I will do. I shake a little, just thinking of going to an interview, getting a job.. An actual job in an actual studio... The dream... I guess there is a lot personally riding on this. I want to get my confidence back, I want to feel like I can succeed with my skills, doing something I've always wanted to do. Just to know what it will be like-- Will I even really enjoy it? Will it be bearable? I hope that I can achieve it-- Just to get to that milestone...
Anyway.. There's been a lot on my mind lately, but I think I'm drifting back to what's important.
I've finished my first commission... :P A Dungeons and Dragons character for my boyfriend. That's the spider-like dude below.
And also, I've been cleaning up the Alice comic.. I am also very pleased with the new and awesome Huion Inspiroy tablet with the battery-free pen, and recommend it to everybody, except people who are left-handed, because I think it looks like it would be difficult to use left-handed.
Anyway, enough of my boring banter, here you go:
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So, school has been chaos, and not quite what I expected. I hoped for structure, but.. Oh well. Apparently that's what it's like in the game industry, too-- Nobody really knows what they're doing. It's kinda funny.
It's been good for me, but much of that goodness is through negative struggles. It's okay-- I'll be done at the end of December.
I think that I greatly underestimated my ability to learn the software and master the skills alone. Now I'm in school, and there is a cost. I'm happy to live in Canada, where the cost is buffered somewhat, but it is still a cost that will cling awhile. I've learned a lot though, and gained valuable friendships and connections.
I've also found profound insights into what it really means to make original work, and have shed a lot of my old assumptions about 'stealing'.
I am still most interested in concept art. It surprised me a bit. I was expecting that I would find these new potentialities to be of interest, and maybe even easier to get into, but they aren't as high on my job seeking list. Any job in the game industry right now still seems like a distant dream, somehow, though, and I feel like I shouldn't be picky-- It seems like something extremely difficult to get.
If it actually happens, I have no idea what I will do. I shake a little, just thinking of going to an interview, getting a job.. An actual job in an actual studio... The dream... I guess there is a lot personally riding on this. I want to get my confidence back, I want to feel like I can succeed with my skills, doing something I've always wanted to do. Just to know what it will be like-- Will I even really enjoy it? Will it be bearable? I hope that I can achieve it-- Just to get to that milestone...
Anyway.. There's been a lot on my mind lately, but I think I'm drifting back to what's important.
I've finished my first commission... :P A Dungeons and Dragons character for my boyfriend. That's the spider-like dude below.
And also, I've been cleaning up the Alice comic.. I am also very pleased with the new and awesome Huion Inspiroy tablet with the battery-free pen, and recommend it to everybody, except people who are left-handed, because I think it looks like it would be difficult to use left-handed.
Anyway, enough of my boring banter, here you go: