Oct '16

Hi everyone. I am new here.

My name is Joe.
I've been doing art seriously for about 8 years now and I am always trying to improve. I have worked in studio for the past four years at a start up game studio, but now I am trying to get other types of work while I am job hunting. I am working on a storyboarding portfolio, a creator owned comic and other random commissioned art jobs.

I have a lot of work to post but for now I am just going to show you my Inktober work so far. It's all based on the game Bloodborne, so should be considered fan art.

Please comment or ask questions. See you in the the forums...

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Oct '16

These are really DOPE!

I've always wanted to play bloodborne....but I don't have a PC...damn
I'm pretty bad at freelancing...got any tips on how you should price
.....Not really sure how much I should Price

Oct '16

Wow! I can't wait to see your work in the professional weekly competitions!

Oct '16

Reply to

fathomcube

It's a really great game... one of my favorites.

Pricing for freelancing is tricky. The more desperate you are, the lower you will price your rates, so the best thing I can say is: get to a position financially that you can charge what you want and skip over the cheaper jobs. Thats harder said than done when starting out. You can look at my drawing commission rates on my, site joecatapanoart.com. Thanks for checking my stuff out.

Oct '16

Those are simply amazing!
Have you drawn pencil sketches first, or were these done only in ink?

Oct '16

Thanks a lot. For all of these, I put down moderately tight pencil sketches, yes. But, lately my daily sketchbook is full of straight to ink drawings. I find it helps develop your eye for spacing. Do you do straight to ink drawings?

cedricgoModerator
Oct '16

I really enjoy your ink pieces. Your ideas are so cool and the inking looks so professional. I'm looking forward to see what you'll come up next :smile:

Oct '16

Hi Cedric. Thank you very much for the nice words. I am new to cube brush and will be posting a lot here, but my IG is @catapanoart if you want to get all my updates.

9 days later

Oct '16

Reply to

catapanoart

I do not have the confidence to go straight to ink, it always ends up looking like a mess. Unless I am doing fast sketches with a brush pen :smile:

Oct '16

I always try to get the big general shapes and then my mind and eye have a better frame of reference.

11 days later

Nov '16

These are amazing they are so vivid and flow really nicely, love the one with the raven mask I don't remember her name but definetely the role she playes and how tragic their story was.
I really want to do something in the viedeogame industry once I'm done studying.
How did you get into it if I may ask? ^-^

Nov '16

Hey , thanks for checking out my stuff. Yea, I think she was called Eileen the Crow. But yea, Bloodborne had a huge impact on me that year. I am compiling all these sketches and more into a book and will be kickstarting it.
But to answer your question, I got into the industry through colleagues and a network of friends from school. I can't give art school much credit for how much you spend, but it is good for networking. I probably also had a stroke of luck because I didn't have much experience at the time.

Are you in a school right now?

Nov '16

I'm in school preparing for my A-Levels (I think that's what it's called in English), 11th grade. I want to go to uni once I'm finished and as everything with art is very ecpensive I still haven't decided what I want to study, or where, but I'm young and ambitious and will find something that suits me, I'm sure :3. But as I'm 16 I still got some time left to think about it.

kigernekoModerator
Nov '16

Nice sketches! You could experiment more with lines. You could for example make the lines of the objects in the distance thinner AND less detailed than the ones in the foreground to create more depth in your work. I think that way your art will get a nice little boost. :sunny: