N D Hill
August 28th, 2004, 09:03 AM
Hey all
Most of you guys know me by now. I’ve been on the whole forum scene for quite some time. I’ve made the jump from sijun to TeamGT and finally to Conceptart.org (I was here since day one actually). I try to be to as active in this community as can. I’ve always taken art seriously but the problem is that I don’t know how I can present my work in a manner where I’m taken seriously. I very aware of the fact that I have light-years to go before I can even think of considering myself as being of professional caliber but I have no solid plan for getting there and really only a vague idea of what path I want to explore with my own style.
Additionally, it doesn’t help when one has no money for tools and barely enough money for school. It’s also discouraging to have people who say they want to work with me and even make conference calls to me every week from LA tell me that they’re "an inch away from being published" and then all of a sudden drop off the face of the planet. Of course this is after I had poured weeks of effort into creating character designs for them.
Like I said, I know I have light-years to progress before I even consider presenting myself to an RPG, Video Game or ANY company and give them my rates. In fact my site isn’t even fit to be linked right now. At least I know if I wouldn’t link it I were to judge it by my own standards for my links page. If I were given the choice of putting it in a position where thousands of people could view it everyday, I would turn it down given it’s current state. When I look at it I see amateurish design, poor work quality and a lack of direction. In fact the only reason I include it in my signature is out of hope that someone would choose to use it as reference when critiquing art that I post.
I guess what I’m asking is for any help I could get in identifying these problems and so I can start grinding them down. As well as identifying strengths so I can start playing to them. I’m an art student here at USM but unfortunately my professors (who have all been great in helping me learn traditional methods and aspects to creating art) would have no clue as to how to advise me and moving forward in my chosen field. With another year in college starting for me Monday, I’d like to at least believe that I’m progressing in a deliberate direction in and have something to look forward to in the future.
Sorry for the lengthy, pathetic “poor me” rant. :P
Most of you guys know me by now. I’ve been on the whole forum scene for quite some time. I’ve made the jump from sijun to TeamGT and finally to Conceptart.org (I was here since day one actually). I try to be to as active in this community as can. I’ve always taken art seriously but the problem is that I don’t know how I can present my work in a manner where I’m taken seriously. I very aware of the fact that I have light-years to go before I can even think of considering myself as being of professional caliber but I have no solid plan for getting there and really only a vague idea of what path I want to explore with my own style.
Additionally, it doesn’t help when one has no money for tools and barely enough money for school. It’s also discouraging to have people who say they want to work with me and even make conference calls to me every week from LA tell me that they’re "an inch away from being published" and then all of a sudden drop off the face of the planet. Of course this is after I had poured weeks of effort into creating character designs for them.
Like I said, I know I have light-years to progress before I even consider presenting myself to an RPG, Video Game or ANY company and give them my rates. In fact my site isn’t even fit to be linked right now. At least I know if I wouldn’t link it I were to judge it by my own standards for my links page. If I were given the choice of putting it in a position where thousands of people could view it everyday, I would turn it down given it’s current state. When I look at it I see amateurish design, poor work quality and a lack of direction. In fact the only reason I include it in my signature is out of hope that someone would choose to use it as reference when critiquing art that I post.
I guess what I’m asking is for any help I could get in identifying these problems and so I can start grinding them down. As well as identifying strengths so I can start playing to them. I’m an art student here at USM but unfortunately my professors (who have all been great in helping me learn traditional methods and aspects to creating art) would have no clue as to how to advise me and moving forward in my chosen field. With another year in college starting for me Monday, I’d like to at least believe that I’m progressing in a deliberate direction in and have something to look forward to in the future.
Sorry for the lengthy, pathetic “poor me” rant. :P