Crimson Daggers: Deathline Challenge!

Oh yeah! I'm back again! And this time doing an insane challenge!! Lets see if I can keep my updates of this blog frequent, because I really need to stop disappearing. Its a bad habit I have, and I intend to fight it! Row row, fight the power!


But ok, First i'll talk about where I am on the internet! I want the word of mouth to help me get to where I want to be! So: 


Twitter: @SimplySeage
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Simply-Seage/166716986702342
G+: https://plus.google.com/115851934606941886071/


I'll add more later. 
Now onto the challenge.


I found out about this late. Basically, its....go here to find out, lol: Deathline Challenge

So, as for my goals. These may change as time passes, but this is it for now:


1. Improve my art, and finish my professional portfolios in the fields i want, continue writing songs

2. Move to Toronto: Get out the house at least once per week. (I need to do this, as whenever I focus on one thing, I neglect everything else. I NEED to go out and be social or else I will go back into depression, and...no thanks yo!)

3. Become totally self sufficient through my art, off of commissions and freelance work. Also going to add music to this one, so any money from shows as well.


Im going to be busting ass working towards this. Doing a lot of work everyday and staying on top of my social networks too. So, I hope you will all support me in my journey to be the best I can be!


So, some art! 

What I've Been Up To (Huge Art Drop)

Been keeping busy, you know how it is. Welcome to the Art Game, tra la la. 

I really need to update more often...this is gonna be a huuuge drop, lol.

But before that, just wanted to talk a little! 

I went to a great event yesterday called 'Do's and Don'ts of Portfolios and Interviews'

This was an event hosted and organized by GameArtisans Montreal, and the people telling us these tips were 2 senior members of Ubisoft! I learned a tonnn of information. A lot of which I already knew, but some that were new to me. I took notes the entire session, and I'm in the process of typing up some key points for my friends and anyone interested in the gaming industry who stumbles by my blog, to maybe get some new info they didn't know before. I will be posting that in my next blog post, so please look out for that.  

Ok, well, ON TO THE ART!!

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Starting with some finished stuffs:

My first ever pixel art! ( I didn't even know the pencil tool existed!!)

Comic done for a cool little game on Smackjeeves:

Environments, love love love:

Finished Weapons:

Remember those 20 environments? Well, heres a select few from that bunch:

Commission WIP 

Drawings/Studies

Toodles yo.

Always updating

Thanks everyone for your help with picking the 2 concepts. I'll show the final in this post. Along with some new thumbnails and linework for a few variations of the same concept.

Finally went to a Doctor Sketchy's down here. Was epic. Made some new friends, and even won a contest, haha.

vvvvv Won the contest with this one! :D vvvvvv

Yeeee :D

Lifedrawing session at Dawson! It was a group of students all modelling for each other. Was a fun time!

Anyways, gonna drop another post in here tomorrow. Look forward to that.
Toodles!

My Goals of 2010

Look ma', its another girl!! (Happy with this one,woo!!)

I could have sworn I posted these up. But if so, well, repost!!

I have achieved goal #1, which ties into goal #3, so yay me!!


1. Okay, so first, I want to finally get a freaking job. That would be awesome. Then I could stop stressing (over money issues, and start stressing over over-working issues!)
2. I want to drop a thread in the Finally Finished section. I am petrified of that place, but I really wanna do it. And not just to get 1 comment and 50 crits, then get my thread moved to the crit section of the boards! I want to actually do a good job.
3. Move to Shanghai. This is a personal goal of course, and not too art related. But I first need that job. I'm sure I can learn a lot about art over there too. I'll just look for the right people (like zhuzhu /drool)
4. Smoke everyone i'm currently on par with. I've always been one to love the feeling of advancement, too bad that feeling has become a faint taste on the back of my tongue. I slowed down soooo much and kind of fell into this stylistic comfort zone, which is probably the worst thing that could have happened to me. Although, it stopped me from jumping TOO much, i've realized that, no matter how I approach my stuff, it always ends up looking like i did it...meaning its my natural style...I don't need to force it. Its just up to me how far I want to take it or if I want to limit myself, for an extra stylistic look and blah de blah. Im learning that I cant use this 'style' thing as a shortcut to getting out of rendering things that may intimidate me and so on.

About 'smoking people' I'm getting tired of being looked down on by some people who are around my level of work, as if they're somehow better than me. Its strange like that... Its like, the better artists (that I know, or have emailed) have been VERY humble, and very nice in giving me advice, reviews and whatnot. So are some of the artists around my level, but theres also a lot that seem to have this attitude about them. They treat the better artists so nice and respectfully, but then it comes to me, and it's like 'oh, skip that guy' lol. I figure its because i'm in direct competition with them, and anyone who thinks in that competitive way would see me as a threat...so i guess I can kind of understand, but forget that crap. I want to surpass them, and when they need me later, we'll see what happens. Depending on if i'm still Man-PMSing or not, lol.
5. I plan to make it in art. Its as simple as that. I plan to become better, become KNOWN, and get rid of this soft, pathetic attitude i've been tugging around recently. I just need to get my shit back in gear, and I figured by writing this down, it would help motivate me, so lets do this shit. We're gonna see some big things in 2010, I don't have time to waste (my parents patience is running thin, lol).