The White Witch
05:31So I had a change of heart.. about a few things! Firstly the mermaid project, I kinda got frustrated with it and had to do a lot more research than I originally planned -which was fine but I wasn't looking for that in a project right now ;)
Long story short, I'm looking a lot more seriously into freelance illustration. Concept art was something I wanted to do mostly because you could get a solid job from it, although the reality is that may not be quite true. (This is completely open by the way, feel free to comment your thoughts and experiences!)
So with that in mind, I'm hoping to build a bit more of an illustration portfolio for now since that's where my head is at and it gives me good focus on where to improve.
You may recognise this fairly recent piece I concepted and illustrated:
I thought my basics were fine, the picture itself wasn't that bad (in my opinion) it just lacked something. So I started messing around with different lighting and it made quite a dramatic difference very quickly.
So here you are! The new white witch illustration!
In the next couple of weeks I hope to do a lot more/a lot different illustrations with lots of improvement so lets see what happens!
1 comments
Looking good Hazel :)
ReplyDeleteNo job is truly "solid" nowadays if long term job security is what you mean :P
I will say that most larger studios will have at least one or two concept artists working in-house... many have more. (There were 5 of us at Lionhead at one point). Freelance illustration by its nature is more sporadic than a studio gig, and you'll usually need to be working with several clients to be able to maintain a regular income.
At the end of the day the most important thing is to focus on what you actually like to do. :)