What I’ve Been Up To: Game and Art Progress

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I’m okay but getting a burned out of my stuff. I’ve been slowly attempting to move away from my Twitter and Instagram, trying to keep my sanity with actual galleries sites like here. I’m doing my best to stream as frequently as I can on my Twitch Channel so follow me to catch me working on art stuff commissions!

The Game Boy Indie game I’m working on with my friend is moving along. He got few new things like alternate weapons and running, collisions and currently he’s working on some working menus and inventory screens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu6kQx0eqDI&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qil0svh0ON0&feature=youtu.be

My animation lately has been a rough wall jump, then started on the first sprites for my larger boss character. I’m hyped about the spinning arrow move and with some clean up this animation will really pop!

There’s a few more ideas for Nad’s fight that I want to flesh out for his behavior and make it an interesting fight.

  • Nad_Boss_Fight_Sketches_A
  • Nad_Boss_Fight_Sketches_B
  • Nad_Boss_Fight_Sketches_C

After this, I plan additional animations for Cole, such as crawling, swimming, a fully animated jump attacks and throws, a ground slide, using an item in the field and whatever else.

Cole_Potion_Art

At the moment, I’m pushing through big commissions such as this illustration for the Steam Early Access Game, Furs of Fury, a Warcraft 3 Inspired, Multiplayer Strategy Game (not a MOBA.)

I’ve been thinking a bunch about the state of my artwork and I’m walking away from simply posting on social media crap to focus on putting finished art on proper gallery sites like Artstation, Newgrounds and this site.

I’m sick of the being forced to drop sketches and WIPs to feed the damn algorithm machine to not be declared dead on them. It just encourages unfinished art and no one cares about unfinished art! Because of all of this, I’ve felt so many doubts about my work and myself and questioning why I feel so insecure about my work.

I know my art’s loved and respected by people, but I can’t seem to take it to heart. My real problem is that I’m not good at selling my work and it makes a feedback loop of self-fulfilling failure.

Maybe I need to take a longer break after I finish all of this art, but there’s still much to get done and I don’t want to leave anyone I committed to high and dry.