...both the excitement of using it, and the smell ;) Just over a year since getting Painter X and discovering the wonder of the oil brushes, I have now used real oil paint for the first time, and I must say that although "real" mediums are a little intimidating - paint has always scared me (both the real thing and the microsoft ...

So I'm wrapping up the first two products of been art director on, a GM screen and a book with 35 illustrations. Everything went pretty smoothly. Had one artist who DRASTICALLY over exaggerated his turn-around time and another who decided ten days before deadline that he'd only do 3 of 5 briefs assigned to him and that he'd take the ...

So I'm pretty much horrified about where my career is going. I've been doing art for these smaller RPG companies for a while, trying to work my way up. I can't work for these companies forever because they don't pay/I'm not fast enough to survive off of that money. I thought the next tier, the last one before the very top, ...

While I wait for some sort of operation - I don't know what it is or when it is, just that it's happening sometime this week - the blood flow in my brain has passed from the left to the right hemisphere, which is good for my creativity but bad for my brain in general. For each challenge, including ones that finished months ago, ...

Okay so if you know me you already know about my health issues, so I won't go into the details, but anyway it's pushing against my optic nerve and I'm already having troubles with my drawing because of that. The problem is, most of the careers I'm looking at require vaguely-okay sight at all times - no reason to be hiring a half ...

Warning: Super-long uninteresting personal ramble ahead!! Ok so I really want to get into the Games industry; it's like my career goal at the moment so I suppose it was fate that landed a huge article on getting into the industry at my local newsagent, covering everything you need to get the job of your dreams..... I recommend you read ...