Hello World

Hey an welcome to my blog, my name is Michael Wilkinson and this is my Game Art Blog, where I will be posting all things Arty an to do with games and my degree course, My educational background consists of A Levels in Fine Art, Graphic Communication, Physics and Computing. I then progressed onto an Art, Design and Media Foundation where I learnt to enhance my skills, such as life drawing and different points of perspective ready for university. I enjoy working in any medium, but Acrylic paint and inks are my currently my favourites, doing both graphics and fine art has allowed me to build up a decent range of skills, from basic pencil sketching to digital art on Photoshop. On my foundation I Began to draw more from life rather than reference materials this will come in useful on my course. After completing my Ba Game art I hope to move onto a Masters then progress to industry as a professional artist.

My favourite genres of games are RPG, both western and eastern. RTS and Shooter games as well as Fighters and Puzzle, ohh and platformers… So basically I like lots of games; pretty much anything but sports games because they are evil. Some of my all-time favourites are Abes Odyssey, Pokemon,  Blazblue, Mass Effect, Dawn of War, XenoBlade Chronicles, Megaman and Megaman X, Castlevania, Darksiders, Super Smash Bros, Left 4 Dead and every Metroid game ever made because they are all amazing and I love Samus, and many more.

As well as being an avid gamer and well honestly abit of a gaming nerd, I enjoy playing card games like Magic the gathering and Cardfight Vanguard!!, I am also a huge anime and manga fan, my favourites are neon genesis Evangelion, FullMetal Alchemist, Steins Gate, outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop.

I enjoy drawing most things but currently I believe I am better at drawing environments than people, so I will have to practice much more on human forms, and maybe specialise in landscapes later in the course. I have always been interested in games ( I would always play a game and while going through it be wondering to myself about the processes used and how it’s all put together, what makes it a good experience and if it’s not good, why is that the case) and drawing ever since I was about three years old, I used to copy things off the screen and draw my own Mario bros worlds and create new characters for games so as I grew up moving toward a career in art and gaming just always seemed like an obvious choice.

Over the course of the next three years I will be uploading both 2D and 3D artwork from my coursework as well as any personal works I create, I hope to get as much feedback as possible, so please give lots of feedback folks and be honest, if you think its crap then tell me why.

That’s all for now.