My First Object

My First Object (A collection of my drawings)
The beginning of my story

These two were created entirely using a black biro
The paper became fragile because of all the ink pressed into the paper.

They don't just hold ink in them, they hold memories 

Memories of the places that were created 

And memories of the small achievements along the way

The first out of the eight objects that I have chosen are my collection of old drawings.To me they are more than pictures they are my first steps towards pursuing a career within the creative industries. It started five years ago at work, I was on my lunch break bored of the repeated conversation about football, so to keep myself occupied I found a black biro pen and scrap piece of paper and started drawing. People started to notice what I was doing and kept on at me to pursue this skill and turn it into a career, over time I came round to the idea and began to work towards a career within art and design.

I started to send my work out to video games magazines and got great feed back which fuelled my passion for illustration and helped me believe in myself.

From there I joined the foundation course at chesterfield college and never looked back since.

So this collection is my story, my starting point towards a professional level of work, and a point that I will never forget or never regret. I was clearly influenced by video games at the time, each piece was based around the game I was playing or the films or programs that I was watching at the time, but I never gave this much though at the time.

What would be interesting is possible revisit this style of illustration again to see how much progress I have made, what also would be interesting is to see if games master magazine would show my work again, I featured in the mag five times so I wonder if they would remember me.

The video game culture has always been labeled as violent one, and It's hard to disagree, you can clearly see that most of the illustrations all have violence in some shape or form in them, I will argue that they are changing, yes they are still violent but the stories are becoming much more mature and emotional. I personally play them as an escape every now and again but there are people that spend more time in them then they do out, so another side to this culture are people living and socialising through online chat forums. The digital culture is growing and one day a night down the pub may not exist, we may all be talking down a gaming head set while playing call of duty 24.