Art gaming

New day or late evening of a new day, yes, that's it.

So what I've been doing lately is, apart from procrastinating, working on the new prospect provided by my purchase of:-





Yes, I've entered the world dominated by Jrpgs, that is Japanese Role-Playing Games. Though my opinion that they aren't really much of anything to do with roleplaying aside, this could well be the way forwards for me, as there are many groups seeking commercial standard team members and so here I am, with stylus and tablet at the ready, putting together a bit of a portfolio.

I'm going to start this with doing artworks for opening screens, character art, and also even sprites and such.  I think it's more commercially promising than anything else I've been trying so far.

So wish me luck, for what it's worth, heh.

I'm also going to attempt a project of my own, for the ol' portfolio, as a sample of what I can do with my brain and my fingers, with maybe an eye or two thrown into the mix, and also some other organs perhaps...

My starting point is just posting on the forums, so that people get used to me.  So after I've made a bit of a nuisance of myself now, I'm going to attempt some art challenges on there, the first of which is to attempt this:-
http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/6655-the-daily-sketch-thread/

The 25 minute result:-

New art for a new year.

I promise to try harder with my art.  To really push myself as much as I physically and mentally can within the realms of possibility, for as many days as I can non-stop.

First piece for this year, and first step is this:-

So I'm going to have to go back to what I used to do really.  That is: Wake up and start doing art, until I fall asleep later that night from exhaustion... doing art.

This is the last year I'm going to get to try this, and to possibly get any where with my art, so it's worth me pouring myself back in to it.  Plus I kind of have that magical feeling back that I used to get when I created some of my finest work.  It's something that I haven't quite worked out, but it's to do with longing, love and the depths of my feelings, to create beauty as I can't create it in any other way that I know of.

And sooooo, here you go. My latest one.  Scanned the sketch in and then applied the basic dark areas.  Tomorrow I work towards it's improvement.