If you consider yourself as an artist, then there’s a few tips that you might want to learn before you step in the gaming industry. There are 3 cardinal rules for the game artists.
- Managing your ego
- Professional Communication
- Diversification
People all know communication leads to effective learning and understanding. But often that’s not what Engineer thinks. Artist usually are right brainer, they are really good with the picture in their mind, but often hard to describe them in details what it looks like. When developing a game, the producer/game designer is the key person to sync both SE and Artist’s mind. Artist needs to learn how to listen closely to what other people’s question, then answer in very specific details of what he wants. Here are few practices that you can improve for your communications skills:
- Teach to your peers
- Ask questions
- Join discussion
It takes a lot of practices to be come a good artist, so sometimes it is easy to just draw a sketch diagram to help establish the communication with your peers.
To become a better artist, you have to look at more resources, and do more researches to get ideas. Don’t be afraid of sharing your ideas and researches, because the only way to get better is through learning. When you think playing a game is fun, then think of when others giving you feedback and you actually learn from others, that will give you more sense of achievement then learning becomes fun.
