Vlad_Gusev

osmosisch Thank you! Infinitely appreciated. itsamoose Thank you, fantastic reply! Agree I should invest some time into animation, actually a couple of weeks ago I send my resume to gameloft and they were about to hire me but at the last moment they said that they wanted someone with animation skills also. That surprised me, but I guess it was from a small gameloft studio in Spain so they could not afford big personal yet. I did worked on some mobile games, 10 ago or so. It was quite primitive stuff in comparison to what we have now but even then I remember it being really chaotic. But also I was working with russian company while living in Spain so that added to the confusion, really progressive stuff for that time hah! And I think these kind of things happen in art quite often, working day and night without end and always having some last minute problems. But yeah, you really should love what you do to power trough these moments.

SuperBiasedMan Thank you! Getting likes and retweets from everywhere! Making contacts is vital these days, its a shame I understood that a bit too late. Spending all my time drawing I never stopped to think that having high duality art will not attract clients by itself if I'm not out there searching for them, obviously. Getting smarter little by little!

Thank you BigJKO! Yeah I also feel that my style is quite friendly right now and I feel really good using it, I´ll keep showing it everywhere because no one can stop me! I forgot about polygon for some reason, gonna send them my portfolio right now, and thank you for re-tweeting, already got a couple of likes because of it

I've been following Idle Thumbs for four or three years now and finally I decided to make a topic and maybe find some suggestions! Around 20 years ago because of video games I started drawing (and never stopped since) thinking that someday I end up working on the next vagrant story, breath of fire or legend of mana game. Because I was fascinated with those crazy art styles and my art went in that direction too. Some years past most of the companies abandoned those very creative visual styles in favour of something more easy tu digest. I didn't understood that at the time, and so even now its been really hard for me to find work as an illustrator because my drawings are little bit too weird. Lately I've been trying to make my art more friendly and suitable for wide audience, as example I made this selection of work aiming at casual games and editorial art http://vldgsv.com/portfolio But I keep getting suggestions that my style is too risky, and that I should try going for indie game companies or animation. And so here I am, maybe you guys can give any advice? Or maybe suggest some indie studios that I should send my porfolio to? I would be glad and very thankful to hear anything! I invite you to look at my work at: http://vldgsv.com/