[Magnel]

Hey dude, I got on my first Xbox team as a junior in high school, I would draw out lines with pen, do simple hatching for shading, and color with a mouse on GIMP, and got paid fairly nice to do it.

You've got a good attitude not only as an aspiring developer, but as an overall artist.

Things you'll need to get used to is speed: I've worked as a concept artist with teams where I get 15 minutes to churn out a decent sketch of some type of object/character/vehicle, and so on so we can have several these in one meeting to pick a final design.

You mentioned it's no masterpiece, try not make your stuff masterpieces, make them work; functionality before 'prettiness' if you will.

Make your own style. It's still possible to make a style you're comfortable with, that's appealing to clients and so on. Your stuff shouldn't look like Andrew Jones' artwork because if it did no one would care about Andrew Jones. If everyone painted chiaroscuro like I do a lot, some of my work I've done for clients would be pointless.

Well-roundedness is awesome, make yourself useful, in which from talking I see you have already; using Blender (which rocks) and working 2D as well. Because of this, in the future when either making concept art, you'll know not to 'overdue' it(keep the modeler in mind, don't make such magnificent work that the modeler can't possibly make something that works with the engine, again functionality); and as a modeler you can have your own work for originality.

Takes a lot of time, practice, criticizing, and re-doing.

The thing is before I get sidetrack, I'm still learning, and I've been doing this for 3 years and I still suck pretty bad compared to my comrades here. Learn from these guys, I still do, and it makes me a better artist than I ever was. You do have the potential, of course my art teacher always told me 'A monkey has the artistic potential, but show me how you're different than the damn monkey'.

Take care, be looking forward to seeing some stuff coming out of you.

--Wade

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There's nothing wrong with peoples opinion on software and other issues. PLE can literally die from suicide, I hate it and Blender can use PLE to wipe its modeling butt with.

HA! Just ranting, but yea, TRY THINGS! Get PLE, get whatever your downloading fingers can touch, like the style thing I said, find whatever you need to get comfortable.

And agreeing with Tiros, that is crap. Well in reference to video game development, it's crap. Cool from Paint because I use paint to make simple GUI ideas for our game, and it sucks, so that is cool, but for video game development, need to work on better stuff than that, but don't let that fool you, as mentioned draw your little heart out. I did and I got places!