Introductory Post


 Introductory Post

Hi, I'm Jake Brooks, the owner of this blog which I'm going to update throughout my time in the second year of this Games Art course. This is the introductory post, which is to describe my character before I create any actual blogs focused on work.

Interests

I'm interested in gaming (obviously), playing guitar and anything to do with art but mostly digital art. I'm also getting more into cosplaying my favourite characters from games and TV shows. I've been to a few conventions, but am yet to actually go to any cosplaying a character.

Why I chose Games Art

As I previously said, I'm into both gaming and art, so naturally this was the best of both worlds. Other than that, I really want to pursue being a concept artist. The first year made me realise that I would actually like designing the concepts for landscapes and areas just as much as I would like designing characters, so this is what I want to pursue for the long-term.

Interesting fact!

An interesting fact about me is that originally, I was planning to take a sociology BA course, before I stopped last minute, took a gap year to reconsider my options and now I'm here, doing this course.

Some of my art
This is my original character "Aasta"
This is birthday art I made for someone. The character is from a game called Limbus Company (Project Moon 2023)


The character is Ishmael from Limbus Company (Project Moon 2023)

Another original character, in last years Critical and Contextual Studies module I studied Dark Souls and this was my initial attempt at designing armour for a character.




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