Week 26 - *Game Art Student after hours

Week 26 - *Game Art Student after hours

So it’s the Easter break and wow is it weird trying to find out how to relax after spending so long doing work on the course. This week I spent preparing visual graphics for my zombie presentation based on pixel art style. 

See I’ve forgotten how to relax. Anyway apart from this, I pretty much spent the entire week just drawing and experimenting with copic markers as seen below.

 The image above is a comic like illustration of my older brother as the green lantern. My older brother has always been a source of inspiration mainly due to the fact that he was the one I remember picking up the pencil and drawing first. Anyway my reasoning behind producing this illustration Comic book artist David Wynne produced an illustration of my older brother with the same subject matter (coincidently I had actually been in contact with in the past during the time I was exploring comic book art as a possible career path).

Wynne's version - The Original

My version of this illustration was my way of proving to myself my growth as an artist as normally I would worry and be shocked in awe of how said artist produced the image above but now after spending so long on the course I feel like I know the processes on how to make something like that and well I’m just so happy about the outcome.

And it seems this hard work paid off, later in the week I got a message from one of my older brother’s friends who works at the independent who saw this illustration and requested I make them one similar. It looks like things are finally looking up and who knows what’s stopping me from pursuing comic book art as an avenue. I really enjoyed making my brothers illustrations plus I love comic books and there’s a comic book artist out there with my name. Guess maybe there can be two Chris Anka’s doing comic book art in the future, just got to keep grinding.

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A slide show showing my progression of the illustration.