Greetings and Salutations, my name is Sadik, and this is the beginning of my forums for the Digital Art School. Here is a little about myself, to get a better understanding of me and my philosophy. I am 19 years old, and trying to perusing entry within the creative industry, nicheing into games, more specifically, the Games Industry, focusing on the Artistic side of things.
Growing up I was always fascinated by art and everything creative, when I was little, I always wanted to become a professional artist, become something great and lay my legacy. Unfortunately, I was shunned by my family for having these views on art, and how I wanted to have a career within it, they undermined it even more once I told them about the fact that i wanted to niche into Game Art.
From this, I grew distant from art for several years, more specifialy in High school, which was the part of my life that i stopped art all together for this very reason, that art wouldnt bring a turn-over, that my time would be wasted and how "childish" it is. At least, these were the thoughts that were put into my head by my parents and others around me.
Come later a few years, I am in University, started my first year doing computer science, I was enjoying it to say the least, or at least some of it, the lecturers were great, the place was decent, I knew the path for succession and the "greatness making", the only dilema I had at the time was that which path was i going to take to get there.
In my university, we have a multitude of courses, ranging from STEM based, such as Computer Science, to, Games Design and Game Art. Reluctently I had chosen Comp Sci as I wanted to get those "easy" thousands in Silicon Valley and such.
There was a time period in which between choosing this course and the spark re-igniting for art, I will not be stating what has happened in that time period for it is of personal matter, but what has happened truly changed my perception of everything around me. To put the long story short, there are always, more than one path to succession, and being within a path that you have such high interest and passion for would most certainly boost your speed of progression and have a strong integral status.
With these new thoughts, I realised multiple things, politically, economically, ideologically, logically, and literally. And so, with things that again I will remain hidden (For personal reasons), I chose art, despite everything that has happened.
Now coming to the end, I know what I must do. And I will do it with the assistance of this, I hope that I can master the skill of art, and really become something.
And that was my "introduction" to my forums of sorts, I apologise that it was long, I had read others starting messages for their forums and realised that they entailed pieces of their story for art, so I did just the same! I will update you on this journey.
