Art is Subjective, But Design is NOT!

Now as you may or may not know, I teach Video Game Art and Design to students. Occasionally, I get a student who says that "Art is Subjective!"

And my response to that is that Yes, Art is Subjective, But Design is not. In this profession that you are striving for you need to be able to communicate your ideas effectively. If you cannot do that, then you have failed at your job. It doesn't matter if your trying to paint a scene and your audience doesn't understand the message then you are not doing your job.

Contest Continued.

I have been continuing working on the Artstation contest a bit more. I feel like it's going really slow, never getting much time to work on it. I have to take this class for a college that I teach at and it's sucking up a lot of time. But the plus side of it, is that I use the class to build up a gumroad tutorial that I have been wanting to do. 

I need to re-evaluate my workflow and see if I can speed up my process. a bit more. That aside I am finding tribal tattoos to be a bit of a task, since I haven't really done them before. On this character I still need to work on his legs a bit more. I feel they are kind of bare with all the stuff going up on his chest. 
This is the character line up. As you can see it's getting there. I have a little bit more of the background going on and I have 3 of the ten characters fleshed out. Not done mind you, just fleshed out. 


If you want to check out the progress feel free to at https://www.artstation.com/contests/ancient-civilizations/challenges/14/submissions/14182