I have been nagging myself to finally put-up or shut-up regarding getting serious about doing my own artwork. Well fresh off the Revelations workshopI think I have been sufficiently shamed and motivated to at least give it a try. My goal is to post 1 image a week. Any image, no matter how imperfect, dull or unfinished.
My main difficulty seems to be finding my style. At work, I use a well practiced, utilitarian approach to depicting game assets -that style, although fast and useful, isn't all that expressive and just isn't what I personally want "my" work to look like. I've been aping styles for so long now I wonder what I might do if I tried a little to finish something for once. I went through a phase where I did a lot of work in Illustrator that I kind of like, but I found Illustrator a bit cold and time-consuming. I like working with digital tools, yet in my heart I would prefer to have a "real" work to hang on my wall, something organic and hand-made, not a printed copy of an ethereal image made on a screen.
It should be an interesting (to me) journey, setting out to hopefully explore and discover what I am capable of.
To start us off, I offer this blatant Mignola-inspired interpretation of Janus, the 2-faced God of beginnings, change and transitions.
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