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#1  Edited By armaan8014

Alright everyone thanks for all the advice! I have decided to go ahead with it and deal with whatever comes in my way...
Hope I do well! :)

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@Meteora: he he.. this is what puts me in a tough position. I live in India.. and the game industry scene is totally dead here. Or you could say that it's just starting up (which could be a good thing for me). Games that are made here are totally pathetic and rare as well(like kiddy stuff). There's no inspiration, and I've not even played a single completely Indian game.
 
But art colleges here are really good and the government ones are recognised and very cheap, so getting education shouldn't be a problem..
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#3  Edited By armaan8014
@Spiral_Stars said:
" Mass Effect two weeks before Mass Effect 2 came out. "
*sigh* me too..
also, Oblivion and GTA IV when I was 75% + through
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 @masterpaperlink said:

" @armaan8014:why don't you just start now? Theres nothing stopping you, its never too early.  "

  By the way I had drawn up two more drawings about a week ago. They're scans so forgive the quality:
 

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@agentboolen said:

" @armaan8014:   Art is a hard field its also the field I got into.  The most important thing I can tell you that I have learned from my experiences is that when the economy is broken and companies are struggling the 1st department that gets laid off is the Art Department.  Its also a lot of competition and location matters.  

For game design the best info I can give you is that if you want to work on the games you have to look for good game developers (not game publishers), there are a lot of small game developers that don't have money because there working on there 1st game and don't have a publisher yet and may never have one.  If you live near a good game developer then you might have a good chance at getting in and rubbing elbows but if it doesn't work out and you can't find any other good game developers near your location you might feel trapped."

Yeah that's actually pretty much what I would like. Like for instance, the half of the team behind Dark Void was all new, plus it was the studios first game. I would enjoy working in such an environment, where the whole studio is just starting up. 
But talking about location, do you think it's hard to land a job in other countries? Where I live, there is just one small company (RZ2 games i.e red zone 2). I could be an intern there and work a little maybe. But would getting a job in another country be a problem?

@animateria

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" And yeah, comics and writing is a very good skill you have. As a concept artist, your goal is to create worlds and characters that are unique and significant for the producers as well as the end user.  It's not always that a game has a story first, a lot of them start from game mechanic concept and then into worlds and characters.   "

That's pretty cool..  You think if I started writing a book or something alongside drawing, that would be helpful?
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#6  Edited By armaan8014
@animateria: Well, talking about diverse range of skills, I'm pretty good at writing too. I have loved writing stories and making comics since I was around 10 yr old. Do you think being creative overall could help? Since a lot of people here are saying that art is probably not the best field to get into, what other fields do you think a creative person could get into?
 oh im getting so confused now..
 
@diz:
Well I know! I probably shouldn't have posted up my gallery. It's because I've hardly had any time to draw in the past few years, and these are pretty much almost all the work that I've done in the past 2 -3 years.. I was working on another original war-scene on photoshop, but my PCs gone for repairs so I couldn't complete it. I'll post it up when it's done!
 
@Crabcraft: 
Well, im in a completely different region. Im in Asia!
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@masterpaperlink:  Well I did mention a lot of times, but that's exactly what I plan to do.  I'll quote myself:
 
 

@armaan8014

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" Main thing is to get into the game industry as an artist...  Whatever helps me become better and helps me to make a great portfolio is the thing I need.   What I plan to do is, get into arts college, do all the traditional drawing and learn all the theory and whatever they want from me, and when i'm free in the day, practice my own, more game-focused drawings (maybe with the help of the online tutorials). Then after I get my degree I could go for a more specific game-art design course or PG something in it, and I'd pretty much learn all that I need to. What do you think? "

  So, with lots of independent practice everyday, I'd be in a good position then?
 
@Vito_Raliffe:
I am on conceptart.org, but I've never been to Massiveblack. Thanks for that, it's got some great work  on it!
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@j_drace: Well, yeah that's probably cause I'd drawn it when I was like, 14  or something... And I did mention I haven't had much time for drawing, so these are definitely not the best that I can do now.

@crusader8463: Hey thanks a lot! Yeah I do believe that following my dreams is the most important thing, but since the time decide has come so close, I'm getting a little nervous :D
 
@CharkeeFarlee: Haha! High five! and best of luck to you!
 
@super_machine:
Well I've actually never heard of ID... I chose BFA as with that I could go to a lot of other fields like advertisement, etc. I had never thought of illustration either. Could you fill me in about ID and illustration?
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Ha ha! this thread is turning funny..

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#10  Edited By armaan8014
@Mowgers:@leecanread:@cap123:  
Hey thanks for the advice! So I guess I just got to practice the basics and  draw what I like, putting time and effort into it, and I'll get where I want to..  That's great, I'll do it!
 
@Crabcraft:
Getting a degree to back me up sounds like a safe thing to do, and as long as I'm doing my own game art practice, I'm going pretty much in the right direction am I not? 
 
@crusader8463:
Hey that's great, since for some reason I'm pretty bad at robots, space marines and all of those high-tech machine drawings.  What I prefer is to kind of draw portraits and landscapes I think. And I do put all of my feelings in my drawings too. I'm going to start on a drawing of a really beautiful looking landscape that I've thought of as soon as I get my drawing tablet, so that will show me whether my drawings have the potential to make people think. 
If you would have asked me, just for fun, where I'd like to work, I'd probably say some company that makes medieval RPGs, like Bethesda for instance. I'm really a big fan of nature (as you can see from my profile BG) and medieval era stories, and would love to draw something like that. Yeah I haven't drawn anything of the sort, but that's because I've had no time. Only one I could find time for was this one  (scanned version hasn't come out that well.)
And I think I have good imagination as well. Im planning to write a fantasy novel, I make music, and am a bit philosophical as well ;) So I guess I should go ahead?