First blog

Hello all! juststarted my blog, a little later than most people, this is because i have mainly been researching and i don't have a lot of artwork to show quite yet, but rest assured, i am working on some thumbnails as we speak for my first few paintings. I have over 250mb of research at the moment and will show you some of the things i have been working on.

Right now i have some old work to show you as i made sure i kept busy during the summer, some of these come from my Facebook, while some of them are more recent than that. I was atanexhibition showing my work at a local arts fair in my home village, i managed to make ONE WHOLE POUND!!! selling pictures to the public, but it was useful to meet the other local artists in the area, i also managed to get into the insight magazine so my work has been shown around the local area at least.

For this project i have an idea, equally as unusual as last years idea (Possibly more so!) as i don't like conventions, this idea will be slightly more combat based than last years work as last year i showed i was capable of more deeper game ideas than your average gun porn, and so naturally with this game i wouldn't want violence to take a center stage if it were ever published. My idea is a game set in India during the era of the British Raj in the late nineteenth century... in an alternate steam punk universe! the tropical location will contrast with the cold industrial oppressiveness of the machines, making a bold statement about colonialism, polution and things being built in places where they don't belong, a sort of paradise spoilt the onset of big machines and multi-million pound corporations.

The story follows Guran, an ex pirate/bandit with a silver toungue and nothing to lose, from the outset of the game our hero is being held prisoner and about to be hanged the following morning, you're going to haveto use your head if you want to escape. This fits in with my dissertation which is all about the underdog and how people identify with the underdog in the wider context of popular culture. As Guran and his fellow countryfolk are being held prisoner under the iron fist of the British Empire.

One of the main reasons for the steam punk setting is that it lends itself to something i have never done before and that is drawing machinery and robots, which is in stark contrast to everything i have done before. One of the main ideas i have for this project and an avenue i will shortly begoingdown is the design of some giant and very scary, mechanical elephants used as heavily armored battle tanks by the resistance (the good duys) against the equally (Maybe moreso) technologically advanced British Empire, who have their own machines to cause fear and mayhem upon the rebelling masses who aren't going to take it lying down.

For this i have been researching the anatomy of elephants, also steam engines and nineteenth century technology as well as modern robot in popularculture like in the Mechwarrior series and the walkers used in the original Star Wars films which i noticed move not entirely unlike elephants.

I will be posting my thumbnails up as soonas possible to show you what i've been thinking and then i'll get directly into painting