Information about the Artist
Hello! My artist tag is 'Arikin' but feel free to call me Ari! I am a 23 year old recent grad who got tired of the day to day Accounting grind real quick and am now attempting to make it as a Freelance Concept Artist, Novelist, and
hopefully soon to be TEFL teacher. I've got a lot of randomness and transition happening right now, but I'm in a good place to be able to take this chance.
Concept Art
Concept art is my passion- because it's all about taking an abstract idea and bringing it to life. I most enjoy character creation as there's so many different ways to make something come to life, and I really love it when either myself or a client leaves with their character, pleased with the end result.
I started getting into concept art about ten years ago when someone challenged me to make a new species based off of two random animals they pulled out of a hat. It was one of the first art contests I entered, and since then I've been hooked.
'Morphing' is one of the many concept options I offer for commissions, and the one that I tend to have the most fun with, as there's really no rules or limits to what I can create. Sure, anatomy has to look right, but when you take a fish, a bird, and a mammal, what is truly accurate? I study skeletons to try and figure out how my creation would move, and if it would be capable of movement with the anatomy I create, and then I go from there. Some morphs are definitely odder than others!
What do I need to improve on?
Backgrounds and natural objects would be my number 1 answer, as they are to this day, still nonexistent in many of my pieces- because I'm not confident in them. I've got one WIP using multiple characters and a background, two of my current faults- so we'll see how much I can improve with just this WIP!
Multiple characters in a composition - I struggle to have characters interact with one another, especially in facial expressions - definitely something I plan on improving in the future!
Anatomy - always something to improve, especially now that I feel more comfortable moving to action poses, versus the standing straight pose that was my go to. Of course, I had gotten
decent at that pose, and now I'm finding that perspective is kicking my butt as I struggle to relearn things I should have continued practicing over the years ^_^;;
Expression in my compositions as most of my characters are pretty straight faced. So working on how to differentiate between characters (same-face syndrome) with different lines, different shapes, and, hopefully, different facial expressions that bring across different moods and levels of seriousness.