Done it again

Sadly, I haven’t done it again, but thanks to a couple of people I’ve met through the Train2Game forum, I’m sat here wishing I could spend more time drawing and modelling again instead of my usual day to day managerial and organising my company, while at the same time trying to do work for various clients.

Indeed, someone has done it again and piqued my interest in all things arty…

First up there was a post on the forum from Fee for a competition they’re currently running at CGHUB (link to the site is also the right), and then Indigo White posted a link on Facebook which ultimately prompted me to buy the latest issue of ImagineFX.

As if I haven’t got enough to do already, coupled with a wealth of things I would love to spend my time doing, I end up leafing through the pages of the latest ImagineFX magazine and thinking to myself “I would love to have the time to sit and draw something like that”…

The CGHUB competition has a first prize that I would LOVE to get my hands on and although at first I couldn’t for the life of me fathom what hero/warrior I could come up with, for some strange reason one of the game concepts that we’re working on at Horizon Studios (currently still in the design stages) had an image pop into my head of the main hero character, and flicking through the pages of this magazine I was surprised to find a concept art piece drawn by Alessandro Taini which although not the same, bore an uncanny resemblance to the image I had in my head. The pose was somewhat wrong, but details in the background gave rise to thoughts about something I wanted to depict on the character from our game so I’m somewhat setting myself a goal, not so much for the CGHUB competition, (although if I feel it’s up to scratch then I MIGHT enter it) but more for myself and also as a concept piece for a future game of ours, but I’m most definitely going to set myself some time aside to either put pen to paper, or pen to tablet (whichever) and come up with an illustration or painting as I have it in my head.

Now I just need to get myself to the library and see if I can get my hands on a copy of Atlas of Human Anatomy for the artist. Either that or stick it on my Christmas List along with the GameMaker’s Companion, and a Cintiq (although I somehow doubt the last one will make it’s way into my Christmas stocking).

But again, the whole concept of getting back to what I used to do many many many many years ago, in a way excites me.

At one time I used to spend all day working on one task and one task alone. I’d go in to work on a morning knowing full well that I was going to be working on a particular job and for the duration of the day I would be working solely on that one job.

Since becoming a studio manager some 18 years ago (as well as the advent of mobile phones and e-mails) my day is now a constant stream of one interruption after another, with me going into work thinking I’m going to be doing one thing, and by the end of the day realising that I haven’t even looked at what I was going to start the day with, and yet somehow through the course of the day I’ve achieved so much, just not what I’d intended on doing.

*Sigh*

So, here’s to the future and hopefully the creation of a concept piece for the lead character of Heaven on Earth.