Joshua Gardener's Art Blog

With a little more specialisation comes some assessment of where we are at, the new term allowed me to orientate myself more for 2D art (the more concepty side) as this is the kind of art that i prefer to do, and through that we needed to get a judge of how our skill levels were. For this, within the 2 hour session we had (more like 1hour 40 by the end of the intro of our lecturer talking) , we were tasked with doing 2 quick drawings; one of a diorama style of room view and a character in 3/4 view. Considering i did the room first as i wanted to get my weakest aspect done first i was more pleased than i expected with the results of this drawing.  the idea for this room quickly went to a sort of madman's hideout, someone obsessed with patriotism in the USA in a world where the US didn't exist anymore. I wanted to get this feeling of desperation and madness from the environment, so things like the grate being the only window, weapons carefully stacked and arranged in t...

While a little late, a new year is a new year and this year as per usual i am undergoing new projects for my course. To start off my new group project is underway...and this time i actually intend to post stuff on it here (cause last time my posts were entirely on the group blog, this time we're doing something different). At any rate the new groups project blog is at HERE  so if you want to see the new joint project i'm a part of i'll be there. secondly as part of some changes i'll be more strongly specialising in 2D art, as we were given the choice to start specialising at the start of the new term and we will be attending lessons that help improve our specialised skills. so new years resolutions here, just to air them out; I will hopefully be posting more frequently, mainly because it doesn't do me any justice if i have things to show, that i don't actually show. so there hopefully should be more posts here now. second is to just continue to refine an...