Doing art while making games!

I've posted the same content in the Art School page and hope to do the same here. So without further ado...

Hey everyone I've considered to post my artwork regularly on other websites, but didn't do so because those communities weren't the right fit for me. But I'm all for posting artwork here with other students to help encourage one another and use it for us to grow collectively as artists. I've signed up for the Art School course recently and started watching and also been using a figure drawing book to learn anatomy.

While I'm doing all of that art learning I've been making games of my own. Hopefully I'll be able to use the ideas that I come up with as I draw as visual inspiration for the games that I want to create. The first game is a twist of a Tetris game that I've made in Unity. The link is here https://nebulus99.itch.io/multicoloured-tetris-variant if anyone's interested to play it. I'll be posting up my games here, because the future games that I'll make will have a more visual approach and focus to the game design and development of these games. I hope that it's alright with the moderators that I do this!

Thanks for reading this and I look forward to contributing to this forum! If you have any feedback on my artwork and/or games do not hesitate to leave a reply

I used to have a messy style of artwork but it has gotten much cleaner over the years. But keeping a clean style on digital pieces is difficult and getting used to drawing on glass brings about it's own challenges as well. I've only realised that I've got messy recently so going back to clean linework is something that I've just done.

I'll be uploading my own sketches (or doodles ) that I find that are worthy of note. These particular sketches in this piece stands out because of the way I've drawn the figure to show foreshortening. In this case the foreshortening is extreme and I liked the way it has turned out. There are rare moments when I do get the foreshortening and perspective right, and in these moments I cherish the quality of my work.

Lastly I do have a style of drawing, colour and perspective that I want to achieve. I would call this my end goal, but of course there is no end goal in art I'll get to it eventually as I keep on working hard on my figure drawing skills. There is another side of art that is to develop my artwork conceptually, but I think illustration and concept art goes hand in hand if used appropriately!

I'll post up an influence map of artists I admire that influence my work sometime. As a clue, I'd have to say I'm leaning towards the artistic style that comic book artists use when conceptualising, developing and drawing their scenes and characters. As I get better at this, I'll then focus more on concept art, which is another main goal that I'll be aiming to achieve in my artistic journey. I'd like to know your opinion of this, let me know what you think about what I said here (or in any of my previous and future posts!).

It has been a while, but I'm back at it again with homework from Art School Term 1!

Even though it may seem easy, the first exercise has to be the hardest of all as I'm drawing on glass and the pen movement can be bumpy at times. My first finished exercise wasn't so good so I've redone it and the lines are more on point now.

There's nothing too tricky with this exercise apart from the last which I struggled for a while sigh... it's the best that I can do

Since it's the first time I've experimented with photo manipulation, I've just combined two images together from Google. Wasn't really too creative, just a castle by the lake. Worked out well in the end.

And here are the two images that I've used for this...

Duplication exercise:

This looks a bit freaky (but not as freaky as the young model with the extra eye

Had lots of fun with this one.

Not sure this was an exercise, but here's a box in perspective.

I think that it's a bit hard to get a photo reference that is in one point perspective. I gave up after my second try haha but may get back into drawing the lines again once I'm familiar with muti-point perspective. Marc did say that there are multiple vanishing points that can be in a photo so I wonder if the other lines converge in different points in the image... I guess I'll find out after learning about more perspective. Really keen to draw buildings/scenes from my own imagination one day so will work on the second perspective exercise in Term 2.

These sketches are 30 seconds to 1 minute gestures. After copying almost all the figure drawings in the anatomy book it made it easier to draw the poses since I've done the hard work first!

Models that I've tried to draw over. I have to say that I've cheated on this as I wanted to jump straight into drawing 3d cylinders before doing the action lines/skeletal form haha

Proportions. Definitely need more practise with this one as I'm looking to do anatomy studies and figure drawing in the near future. The drawing does look messy so I'll do my best to clean up the other figure drawings that I'll do next time.

Now this worked out on my second attempt really well as you can see in the overlay of the second image. The drawing that I did turned out to be too large, but fitted really well as I scaled it down. Was pleased with this result!

I've decided to pick the weakest aspect of the first term and use it to improve my skills in the second term. For me the weakest aspect which has been for a while is human anatomy which I'm really looking forward to doing in Term 2 and Term 3. This is a good lead from my previous artwork history as I've been trying to draw dynamic poses for most of the artwork that I've been doing over the past few years. But doodling these poses will only get me so far, so doing the anatomy courses is the good next step after reading the figure drawing anatomy book. I'll be posting up more work from the figure drawing book in the weeks to come.

As far as the game development has been going, I've decided to learn Adobe Illustrator for vector drawing to do graphics for 2d games. I'll be starting work on a game soon with my friend so hopefully I'll be able to show you some (hopefully cute) clipart soon!

These are some concepts that I've came up with over the past few days. Feedback would be much appreciated!