Friday, 4 October 2013

Hello World!

So. A week into the course - time for a little introduction.
My name's Rachael and I'm from the south coast of England. Last year I studied at De Montfort on the Foundation in Art and Design course which was a hell of a lot of fun.

For pretty much all my life I've considered art to be 'just a hobby' and it never even crossed my mind to pursue it in higher education until I'd received my university acceptance letters to study Philosophy and Psychology and suddenly had a change of thought. So BANG everything turns around, I'm on a different path but this time it really felt like the right one.

I did the Foundation course to expand my skills because pretty much all that my drawings had consisted of up until then was copying portraits of film and TV characters from my laptop. And it did the job. I tried so many new things and found that I thoroughly enjoy life drawing and would love to do more.

Originally I hadn't planned to continue studying at DMU but the Game Art Design course really attracted my attention. I loved the attention to detail, the realism of it, the fact I could create artwork that was actually part of an industry.

Problem is I have near to nil digital experience work. I've only tried out my tablet a couple of times here and there, my version of Photoshop is 'vintage' as said by my friends and I've never even looked at a 3D program.

But here I am. It's going to be tough. Super tough. I found that out on the very first day. But it's going to be great fun and I'm going to learn so much, I can tell.

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