It feels like it was yesterday I was
writing my end of year 1 blog. God, these 2 years have gone quickly.
So what’s changed for me over the
last year:
Generally throughout my first year I
was being semi unproductive and just plain lazy at times regarding work. But now
I have completely stopped that. Im glad I have too.
Changing this mindset was my main
goal to accomplish this year, as I believe without the correct mindset and work
ethic you will not get a job in this industry or anything like it. So making
sure I changed it was vital, and it was done with a lot of focus, willpower and
determination. It wasn’t a walk in the park mind you though, quite a few times
(epically before Christmas) I slipped backed into my old habits of having 2/3
solid days of doing no work at all, I even stupidly had a week off from doing
work to binge on the whole 7 series of Dexter (which I do highly recommend on
another note).
I certainly felt the extra pressure
of catching up on all that undone work though, not good. But recently with the added bit of added
pressure and motivation from the group project, my holiday and the end of the
year 2. I was putting in roughly 55-60 hour weeks. I was mentally exhausted in
the last few days but in a strange well it felt pretty good – knowing that ive
just ploughed through a lot of work. That long stint of just doing nothing but work
has just put it into perspective of how much I need to do to get a good grade,
but It also how much and hard I can push myself. After that whole ordeal, its
shown me how well I can cope with pressure as well, which is a great skillet to
have in any intense job.
At the start of the year I felt my
digital painting wasn’t up to scratch, especially after seeing the quality of
work some other students are pumping out. It was, and still is something I want
to improve on. In the second year visual design focuses much more on digital
painting than the first year, so I had a lot of opportunities to practice.
Improving in painting is just like drawing, the more you do it the better you
get at it. Throughout the year I picked up better painting techniques from
talking to other students and watching online tutorials and put these into
practice. Below you can hopefully see an improvement. The first painting was
from the start of the year, the second from the end of the year.
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| Abbey park Final |
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| Moonshine Character Final |
Ive always said in this blog that I
have a passion for character art and I want to be a character artist. But with
the recent completion of the group project I found working on environments and
props to be a lovely experience. So much so that im changing my mind of what I
want to specialise in on my FMP and what sort of job role I want to go into.
It’s a bit late having this change of mind but with more job opportunities and
less competition as a environment artist than a character artist and having
this recent passion boost for environment art it might be the right decision. Ill
Now that ive finished year 2 and
have a long 5 month break ahead until year 3 starts, I have a lot of time on my
hands. So apart from catching up on the big games ive missed out in the last 4
months or so, I want to do work. Drawing is still my weakest skill so I plan to
do a lot of sketching so I don’t get rusty over the summer months. But im still
looking to continue to carry on the group project with a few more members as we
really want to win this competition. The exposure we are currently getting is
great, so its something worth perusing. Especially so as it will massively help
to get into the industry as having that on my portfolio will make me stand out
from the rest of the crowd. It is also a chance to work on more environment
pieces so I can get a better understanding on what path I want to take for my
FMP.
Well I guess that’s it for another
year, ill probably keep updating this blog over the summer, but not as much.
See you in year 3.
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