Heyyo,
I appreciate anyone who will check this out and welcome me as part of the community as we all try to progress! My name is Nollan though I often go by Tor. Growing up I always loved to draw, create characters, build out the stories, and be able to tell my friends stories through sketches. I was always told how good I was and given way to much pressure to become a millionaire with art at a young age. It made me struggle a lot and become very stressed while trying to just do what I enjoy. The schools in my home area didn't have access to a lot of basic art classes when I was growing up, so I think the surprise of skills was what I was young and self taught. I never considered myself good, just I could see things different and I always tried to get my friends to doodle with me. As I got older kept hearing the words "Art Fundamentals" and struggled to learn what those where with out a real direction.
Because of that I became so afraid or just unsatisfied with anything I did for years I just stopped drawing. I took a long break due to physical and mental health, while not practicing I was always still consuming other art and still loving the communities and processes I could see.
Getting to a better headspace with art and pushing myself to do what I love and cut the toxic expectations out of my life, I enrolled in university for Game Art. Currently 23/29 months into my program and I love it. I've started trying to working on my own art and designs again between hard classes.
Since we do a lot of jumping around from job-to-job to understand a little bit of what everyone does in a production line, it feels like I'm not strong in any 1 department. I want to be a Character Artist, I love designing characters and telling their stories. At the moment I can't always produce the image in my head to everyone else and I want to understand how to do that better. My style is also pretty inconsistent and I want to really find my way to be comfortable with exploring more.
I picked up Art School to help myself find a structure and work on my fundamentals. I want to better myself and get to a level that I feel like I should be at. It pretty scary trying to add this into my life on top of day job and school, but I'm excited. This is something I want to work on and I know in the end it will bolster my school work and 3d production stuff I do while trying to get into the industry. At minimum it will let me have a blast with my D&D party's characters, bringing everyone to life and getting them pumped!
Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/nollangageant
Twitter: https://twitter.com/that1gayrainbow
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tornorok/
